Keg @ Cask, Manchester [171013]
Amber, clear, frothy white head, some lacing
Aroma - soft sweet light caramel malt, tourn of corn, slight skunk, not great
Taste if quite malty, malt extract in here, soft bitter hop, just mass produced flavoured
Palate - Medium carb, light body. FInish as main flavour, malt, corn, sweet corn pale malt
Overall - Much more a lager, nothing like an ipa. Poor.

Oh yaaa babee! In fact, I had avoided this during my days in Montréal since there were so many other favourable brews to sample there, and once on a snowey day of "janvier" I had found an emptied vessel of this amongst the snow-bound playgrounds of "le plateau" en Montréal.... but somehow, years later, I’m a few thousand kilometres away in Yellowknife and I find this gargantuan alcoholic monster at the local liquor store. These are simply rare expériences few and far between to be experienced! So, it pours into a hotel waterglass and has a surprisingly reliable bleach-white head and golden body. The aroma is cider. Pure cider - indeed it’s probably a mix of fusel alcohol, but it’s in fact a great cider aroma and if one was not expecting anything else, Monsieur Bull de noir would deliver in the cider department. The flavour - oh wow. It’s tinniness with this horrible aftertaste of tin and water. How’mever, as far as a brew like this goes, it’s pretty darned good - the flavour is unintrusive, even appetizing with the cider notes, and it goes down easy. It gets several extra points for its lack of total awfulness and I’d dare say that if one is among the streets of Montréal with a few bucks in their hand hoping to get wasted, this would be a solid choice. For connoissseurs indeed it is not, but this will get you f****ed up proper without much fuss. And for that, I commend their brewers. In not too many words.

Bouteille 341ml. Couleur or translucide, peu de mousse blanche. Arôme de grain, un peu d’agrumes. Goût de grain, un peu d’acidité, citron? Carbonation moyenne, corps moyen-faible.

Bottle from Appellation Wines. Pours golden with lazy bubbles and a decent head. The nose isn’t good - struck match, cloying and sugary. The taste is like burnt pizza and there are notes of creamy and honey - again it’s cloying. The palate has a medium body and texture but not a clean finish, at all. Overall, this is worse than a beer that tastes of nothing - it tastes of something and it’s unpleasant.