Boréale - Les Brasseurs du Nord

Regional Brewery in Blainville, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Le Relais Boréale - Montréal

Established in 1987

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875, boulevard Michèle Bohec, Blainville, J7C 5J6, Canada
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5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Draught @ Restaurant, Hotel Lord Berri, Montréal, QC
Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, grain, grass and floral. Taste is light sweet and light bitter with a long malty and grassy finish. Body is light to medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried on 11 Jun 2015 at 15:12

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Draught @ Restaurant, Hotel Lord Berri, Montréal, QC
Pours clear brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of matl, caramel, grain and grass. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long malty, caramel and grainy finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried on 11 Jun 2015 at 15:11

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
On tap. A clear, dark amber beer with a small, dense offwhite head. The aroma has some caramel and bread, a touch of prunes and some grass. There’s not much bitterness going on, but not much sweetness either. Bread, caramel and some grassy hints. Medium to thin on the palate, soft. Quite short finish. Decent, far from exciting. 150611
Tried from Draft on 11 Jun 2015 at 14:40

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
On tap. A clear golden beer with a small white head. The aroma is weak, lightly fruity sweet with grass and pine cone notes. Hay too. It’s smooth and rather thin in the palate, very soft carbonation. There’s some bitterness in the flavor, but it’s mostly grass, hay and pale malts. Semi-long finish. Rather boring, but flawless. 150611
Tried from Draft on 11 Jun 2015 at 14:40

6.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottled 341ml (Saveur)
Dark brown color, small off-white head. Aroma has dark chocolate, cardboard and toasted maltyness. Medium-bodied. Light lactose in the front, chocolaty with hints of sweet licorice. Milk stouty. Ok.
Tried from Bottle on 28 May 2015 at 14:46

5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Fresh bottles drunk March 2015
As with most lighter honey ales, the head fizzles away to nothing leaving a light caramel colored, clear body behind.
Nose of fermented honey (floral, somewhat acidic with touches of vanilla and wax) very light biscuits and maybe a touch of floral hops. That may be stretching though. No alcohol, at least, nor is it metallic.
Flavor delivers a weak note of caramel-like flavor mixed in with a touch of honey slickness on the finish. In between there is light waxiness, touches of cardboard and stale biscuits and a lot of fizziness. Body is medium with a wet, fizzy, somewhat slippery texture. For this (usually awful) "style" I’ve certainly had worse. At least you can taste bits of honey that taste real and there are none of the major offenders here (diacetyl, DMS, etc...). That being said, it’s severely lacking in texture and aroma and completely lacking any flavor complexity/depth. But it goes down fairly inoffensively, overall.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Apr 2015 at 14:35

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
341ml bottle. Jet black colour with small to average, frothy to cremay, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Dark malty aroma, notes of liquorice. Taste is dark malty, slightly chocolately, subtle sweetness, minimally buttery with a toffee touch. OK.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Apr 2015 at 16:11

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Sehr dunkelbraune Farbe, ordenltiche braune Schaumkrone. Geruch schokoladig, erdig, röstmalzig, wenig rote Beeren. Geschmack süß röstmalzig, viel Karamell, Vanille und Schokolade, lecker!
Tried on 10 Mar 2015 at 14:50

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6
Effluves de pomme à la tire caramélisée au premier nez. s’étirant dans des accents de jujube, de boisson gazeuse et de fruits confits. Le coté caramel pur n’est pas très bien prononcé. Il s’expose surtout dans ses sucres. L’olfactif manque également de puissance. De couleur brune avec une petite mousse légèrement effervescente qui se maintient quelques secondes. Le caramel se développe d’avantage en gustatif avec des notes de beurre, une chaleur bien présente et une finale légèrement houblonnée. Le caramel reste encore trop discret par rapport à d’autres Scotch Ales. On y décèle bien quelques fruits confits, une pointe de mélasse et une finale légèrement résineuse, mais on attends toujours l’explosion de saveurs et la complexité des sucres qui ne vient pas. Par contre, la texture sirupeuse et la chaleur d’alcool bien présente, sauve un peu la note. Je reste sur mon appétit cependant et un peu déçu de cette Boréale.
Tried on 03 Mar 2015 at 05:03

6.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Un olfactif épicé et fruité (cannelle, réglisse, prunes, jujube, avec une touché d’anis) Puisant et élaboré. De couleur brune aux notes rubis; la mousse effervescente demeure à peine quelques secondes. L’attaque est chaude et réconfortante avec des notes de prunes caramélisées, de raisins secs et de fruits séchés. Légère présence également de vanille et de jujube. En bouche, elle est définitivement réconfortante et rafraichissante à la fois. Une bière grand public. Dans la tradition des bières d’hiver.
Tried from Can on 13 Jan 2015 at 16:35