Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a hazy deep amber with a tan head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has lots of straw and a bit of hay plus a touch of bread. Flavor has light bread and straw with some hay backing.

Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear amber brown with a tan head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a nice smoke note with a bit dark grains underlying. Flavor has a hint of dark grain but is mainly a nice smoke note. Finish is thin.

Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear deep amber with a light brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has has bread and straw with some grains underlying. Flavor is bread and grain forward with a bit of earthy straw backing.

Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear copper with an off white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has breads and grains with some straw and a hint of butterscotch. Flavor has lots of bread and grains with a bit of straw and butterscotch underlying.

Pours light reddish brown. Not very foamy. Pumpkin cake spice nose, sweet caramel, pumpkin pie. Taste is sweet and spicy, pumpkin pie thing going on. Gingerbread spices. Really good pumpkin beer, maybe not very deep in complexity but drinks well, especially during the right season. Dry aftertaste, pumpkin flesh and coating caramel.

Dégustée au Mondial de la Bière de Montréal 2011 (De mes notes papiers). .

Dégustée au Mondial de la Bière de Montréal 2011 (De mes notes papiers). .

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 10/20/2016. Pours fairly hazy/cloudy golden orange color with a small fairly dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of lightly tart apricot, peach, pear, apple, wheat, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of apricot and bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big lightly tart apricot, peach, pear, apple, wheat, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey, herbal, light pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy bitterness and light fruit tartness on the finish; with lingering notes of apricot, peach, pear, apple, wheat, biscuit, herbal, pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Very nice robustness and balance of apricots, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitter/tartness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp/dry, bready/grainy, and lightly sticky/acidic balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.1%. Overall this is a very nice fruited pale wheat ale. All around nice robustness and balance of apricots, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. A very enjoyable offering.

Bottle. Pours a deep brown with a thin head and aromas that are weakly chocolate, banana (heavy at first and fades after fizz dies down a bit), dark fruit, etc. Flavor is the above, but with an odd cola edge to it that buries all the other flavors. Definitely an odd and unpredicted turn of events. Finish is almost wood-like... maybe with a hint of autumn leaves or something. This lacks the complexity I was hoping to find.