Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(355ml can from L'Axe du Malt, Quebec City) Pours lightly hazy amber with a tight off-white head and lots of lace. Aroma of sticky nectarine and candied apricot, white grape, grapefruit peels, canteloupe, sweet bready malt, caramelized touches, some pine and citrus resinous bite. Flavour is somewhat sweet up front with overripe peach, melon, white grape, grapefruit, lots of Enigma showing up in the rindy sort of fruity vibe, malt is fairly prominent bready cereals with some caramel, finish is semi-dry and sticky with resin of pine and grapefruit, more melon, light bitterness and long floral aftertaste. Medium-plus bodied, oily, soft carb, hint of booze. Very Enigma-forward which isn't always my fave hop profile, but rendered well here in something stranded between a NE DIPA and an old school joint.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
(473ml can from L'Axe du Malt, Quebec City) Pours lightly cloudy deep gold wiht an average white head and a little lace. Aroma of fairly mild but quite musky and lightly acidic passionfruit, grapefruit peels, dusty yeast, light cereals, some other vague leafy and tropical hop character. Flavour is lightly sweet and lightly tart with clear passionfruit, light cereal base, hop profile is pretty restrained with some grapefruit, white grape and grass, a bit doughy and dusty from the yeast, finishing soft with basically no bitterness and lingering passionfruit and a kind of hop pellet sort of quality. Short aftertaste. Light bodied, quite low carbonation. Overall impression a bit watery. Not bad but the adjunct and the IPA are both a little faint and the whole thing is a touch dilute. The Reverbere series makes me expect more from BG.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Olfactif à l’acidité lactique bien défini, légères notes vinaigrées et citronnées, base maltée relevant des céréales, soupçon de genièvre. Une bonne mousse pétillante descend rapidement et s’efface pour laisser place à un liquide jaune, flou et opaque. En bouche c’est citronné au maximum avec une forte acidité lactique. On y retrouve quand même une base maltée aux notes céréalières subtilement sucrées ainsi qu’une pointe de genièvre issue de l’affinage et des tons herbacés des houblons sans toutefois qu’il y ait la moindre amertume. Les saveurs se complexifient avec le réchauffement. Le corps est léger tendant vers le moyen et sa carbonatation très élevée. En se réchauffant, le corps prends un peu plus d’ampleur a cause de l’effervescence qui diminue la rendant moins acidulée et plus agréable en bouche. Le réchauffement tend à mettre les sucres plus en valeur, ce qui contribue à rehausser sa complexité. En résumé, il faut la laisser se réchauffer pour en apprécier toutes ses saveurs. Très beau produit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(355ml can from L'Axe du Malt, Quebec City) Pours quite hazy deep gold with a small but stable white head and lace. Aroma of orange and grapefruit peels, pulpy citrus, musky tropical fruit, some forest berries, perfumed flowers. Flavour is off-dry with intense mandarin and grapefruit peels, deep but not overly bitter, with accents of floral tropical fruit, perfume, something soft and almost coconut like about the rounded yeast esters, some forest berries in the finish maybe?, light breadiness to the malt, bone dry finish with light bitterness and no hop burn. Light to medium bodied, slick, softly carbonated. A nice addition to the series with Amarillo and Loral certainly making their mark vs. other entries. For me this is solid but not as good as some iterations.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Dégustée le 2020-10-09. .
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Dégustée le 2020-10-09. .
A beautiful reddish dark brown ale with a thin lacing mocha head. In aroma, nice caramel malt with dark fruits, vanilla, alcohol warmth, light peated notes, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity caramel malt with dark fruits, vanilla, scotch peated character, alcohol warmth, very nice. On tap at Brouhaha Ahuntsic.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(355ml can from L'Axe du Malt, Quebec City) Pours hazy bright gold with a decent'sized white head with some lace. Aroma is loaded with notes of sweet mango and candied pineapple, orange juice underpinnings, some dank slightly weedy notes, a little onion, slight ethanol twang I could do without. Flavour is again nicely sweet and juicy with a little fruit tartness, dank mango and pineapple candy again driving the flavour, some pithy citrus undertones and a fair amount of greenish weed/soft onion bite, low bitterness but some resin in the finish and a little alcohol twang again. Light to medium body with avarage carbonation and a slight slickness. On balance this is really really good, I don't really understand where the stray ethanol vibe comes from but everything else about this beer is superb.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Arômes de fruits tropicaux, mangue, pamplemousse et agrumes avec quand même beaucoup de zeste et une pointe d’alcool. Aucun malt perçu. Liquide opaque, jaune tirant sur l’orangé avec une petite mousse qui tombe assez rapidement. L’entrée de bouche se veut fruitée et sucrée avec une panoplie de fruits assortis allant de la mangue au pamplemousse en passant par la mandarine et le fruit de la passion. Le malt aux tons de pain sucré est très bien souligné et confère au breuvage son caractère de jus de fruits. L’alcool est réchauffant juste à la limite. La finale est modérément sèche et laisse s’étaler les sucres accompagnés de zestes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(473ml can from L'Axe du Malt, Quebec City) Pours quite hazy orange-gold with a decent head of white froth and lace. Notes of juicy pineapple and canteloupe/honeydew melons with supporting mixed tropicals, tangerine and grapefruit, some slightly rind-heavy 'green' tropical fruits as well, light malt character but nice chewy feel, yeasty frity accents, cut grass into the finish which is low bitterness and more 'green' fruit in addition to the tropical notes. Medium-bodied, slightly creamy, soft filling carbonation. Really nice rendering of some of my 'second rank' hops together, making a whole bigger than the sum of its parts.