Metalchopz
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Fairly clean at first, with some haze coming at last pour, showing some nice unfiltered, golden colour. The head is white, decent lasting and leaving some creamy-foamy lacing. Cherry essences in the nose giving a touch of Cherry Halls losanges, and some minty hops. This continues in the flavours with a flat finish, leaving tart. A flavoured beer with cherry essences - seems to work a tad better than their apricot version.
Metalchopz (7978) reviewed Storm Watch from Small Pony Barrel Works 4 weeks ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
2025 edition in a 473ml can, with 5.5.% ABV. Fairly clean, amber with a red hue and golden highlights. The head is warm-beige coloured with a fizziness leaving quick enough, leaving only a few tiny bubble around the beer. Big wild, sour-funky nose with some nice fresh ginger that eventually comes out, and hints of lime juice blending things. A puckering mouthfeel with a little tart left on tongue. The lime adds to the sourness, and the spices add a nice different touch on the style. Quite an interesting spiced Barrel Aged Sour.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5
Clean, golden colour with a white cap, average stay and decent lacing streaks. The nose is quite fruity, with the apricots and more - but more on the essences side of things. The taste shows the Witbier base, kind of bland, with the fake apricot and a chemical bitterness. It almost feels like the hops are the fake culprit, killing the essences. Shows a little unfiltered spices and light haziness at last pour. Nothing brutal, but not the original Cheval Blanc, back in the day.
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updated a beer:
Cheval Blanc Pure Blanche
brewed by Les Brasseurs RJ
4 weeks ago
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added a new beer
Cheval Blanc Blanche Abricot
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Les Brasseurs RJ
4 weeks ago
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added a new beer
Cheval Blanc Blanche Cerise
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Les Brasseurs RJ
4 weeks ago
Metalchopz (7978) reviewed Sous le Soleil de Niagara from 5e Baron 4 weeks ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
A slight haze, golden colour with a big, frothy-creamy warm-white head, good retention and some good lacing patches. A nose of sourness with fruitiness (more of the apricots) and mild saltiness. The peach comes out above in the taste, blended with the sour notes, apricots and light salty touch. Gets hazier as it pours, and some particles do come out. Quite a nice, refreshing, fruity Gose with two beauties from the Niagara region (peach, apricot).
Metalchopz (7978) reviewed Ok Merci from Messorem Bracitorium 4 weeks ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5
Hazy, golden colour with a white head, good stay and some nice sticky, creamy-bubbly lacing. Quite a fresh, fruity nose with litchi and pineapple, blending with a bunch of tropical fruits and citrus. The flavours show a lot of fruitiness as well, with the Galaxy glowing passion fruits, oranges and hints of peaches. A juicy mouthfeel with some mild zesty dryness. This is quite the beautiful, fruity, juicy NEPA with so much going on - for only two hops.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
A slight haze, deep amber colour with golden highlights, a warm light-beige head with a nice thin creamy coat that stays on the brew, and a few creamy streaks of lace as well. Big peaty-smoked, barrel-wood aromas, reminding me of this beautiful scotch - Laphroaig. Some caramel malts undertones with a tad booze. The smokiness and wood is a little milder in the taste, and the fruitiness-caramel of the Barleywine shows a tad more. Kind of smooth in the mouthfeel. A really nice Barleywine for fans of peaty Scotches.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a real dark brown colour, kind of black, with little ruby highlights. The head is big, creamy, light mocha-coloured with good retention and full sticky-creamy lacing. The aromas are mostly the Stout-side of things with the roasted malts, and a touch of chocolate. A creamy, lightly oily mouthfeel with the hazelnut lingering on the tongue, some tartiness. Some good bitterness all-around, that keeps building, creating a nice drying finish. The vanilla is almost non-existing. The chocolate notes are mostly bitter cacao. A good Imperial Stout that is not the dessert you expect, but a bitter-drying one.