À La Dérive Brasserie Artisanale
Microbrewery
in Gatineau,
Quebec,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated with 2 Venues
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can: Poured a slightly hazy yellow color ale with a large white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of dry rustic malt notes with some herbal notes with a light resinous feel. Taste is also a mix of dry rustic malt notes with some herbs and light resinous notes and a dry finish. Body is about average with good carbonation. Very enjoyable spiced saison.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can: Poured a hazy/cloudy yellow color ale with a large white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of citrusy hoppy notes with some juicy floral hops undertones and a semi-dry finale. Taste is also a good mix of citrusy hoppy notes with some juicy floral hops undertones and a semi-dry finish. Body is full for style with good carbonation. Good NEIPA with tons of juicy citrus notes but juicy factor could be more pronounced.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Fairly clean, a slight haziness, golden colour with an amber hue. The head is frothy-creamy with good retention and full, sticky-creamy lacing. A nice caramel malt base with some fresh, herbal nose and a resinous touch. The taste mixes all of these, less punchy - so well balanced. Mildly creamy mouthfeel with a nice slow-building dryness. A very good West Coast IPA which has kick in the aromas, but smooth out in the taste - yet, still fitting for the style.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours a real dark brown colour with a tad ruby highlights, a big, creamy, mocha-coloured head with good retention and wet foamy lacing. Aromas of cacao-chocolate with the orange coming with time, and vanilla smoothing things. The alcohol is felt in the taste, with chocolate lingering and orange liqueur bittering, warming things a bit. Not overly thick, kind of smooth mouthfeel with an oily touch. Some decent dryness in the finish to help out. A nice Imperial Stout with a notes of Terry's Chocolate Orange candy ball.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can. Color: Hazy golden, white head. Aroma: Hoppy, melon, white grape, some citrus. Taste: Hoppy with a quite dense and smooth malty base. Fruity melon, hints of white grape and citrus fruit. Moderate to ovef moderate sweet, light bitterness. Ok, but could have had some more bitterness for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
355ml can. Pours a hazy straw colour with a small, foamy, short lived, white head that laces. Aroma of grainy wheat malt, Belgian yeast, spruce, black pepper and floral hops. Sweet flavour of grainy wheat malt, lemon, spruce, black pepper, Belgian yeast and floral hops in a dry, mild bitter finish. Light body with a watery texture and average carbonation. Refreshing and enjoyable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
473ml can. Hazy, orange, dark golden colour with averge, frothy to creamy, slowly osteoporosing, minimally lacing, white head. Zesty, citrusy fruity, hoppy aroma, minimally sugary, wheaty malty background, minimally perfumed notes of grapefruit, orange, lemon, minimally dank, earthy, grassy, resinous interludes with a touch of hemp, weak, tropical fruity overtones, whiffs of coconut as well. Taste is tripartite: sweet-ish, minimally sugary, wheaty and pale malty base layer, dank, resinous, slightly earthy and grassy, "heavy" hoppy middle part, "light", citrusy fruity hoppy top layer, notes of orange, grapefruit, some mango, hints of hemp, moss.
Slightly oily texture, smooth and soft, slightly greasy palate, medium to fine, scattered, mildly prickly carbonation.
Quite intense and condensed, minimally mismatching, resinous-grassy aspects once in a while - good.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
A hazed milky yellow orange DIPA with a thin lacing off white head. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, light tropical fruits, very nice and smooth. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, light tropical fruits, very nice and smooth. On tap at brewery.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
A hazed golden golden DIPA with a thin creamy white head. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, light tropical fruits, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, light tropical fruits, very nice. On tap at brewery.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
A golden saison with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light fruity esters, light cloves, pleasant and smooth. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity banana malt with light berries, light cloves, pleasant. On tap at brewery.