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# Beer Origin Style Score Date
76 La Voie Maltée Frais-Gante Canada IPA 3.5

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Hazy golden-orange colour with a small, bubbly white head, average stay and some good foamy lacing spots. Big orange juice aromas - probably the most orange juicy I have ever smelt on a NEIPA. The flavours are juicy, but less than the nose. Oranges with a blend of citrus peel and a touch of grassy hops. The mouthfeel has a touch of dryness, that seems to keep building as you drink. A tad tart results. Not a bad, refreshing juicy NEIPA with citrus zest to balance some dryness.

Mar 29, 2024
01:45:06 AM
77 Lagabière Comme Un Bon 20 Canada Saison 3.5

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Hazy yellow colour with a bubbly-fizzy white cap, dissipating rather quickly, leaving a tiny ring of smaller bubbles. Lemon zest with hints of white wine grapes. The mouthfeel is nicely balanced between wet-refreshing and dry. A touch of tart stay on the tongue. Again, lemon zestiness in the flavours, and a tad vinous. A refreshing lemony-zesty Farmhouse with a bit of Chardonnay.

Mar 29, 2024
12:51:21 AM
78 Boréale Mimosa Brunch Canada Fruit Beer 3.0

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Slightly hazed, bright yellow colour with a white, fizzy-frothy cap, decent stay and a ring around the brew left. Fresh oranges in the aromas with lime notes and mild sourness. The taste is pretty mild, as the alcohol content is, showing very light citrus notes. Gets hazier as it pours. This enhances the flavours a touch. Oranges, very mild sourness and a tad tart. Going down well, but would like to have a 5% ABV version to get a bit more kick - as a mimosa is pretty nice.

Mar 28, 2024
12:59:04 AM
79 La Souche Gros Pin Canada Irish Ale 3.4

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Fairly filtered, amber colour with golden highlights. The head is is lightly beige, creamy-frothy, long lasting and leaving good creamy lacing. Grassy nose with medicinal notes over the caramel malt base and decent toastiness. It is a touch piney, but not particularly enjoying the hops in here. Grassy-plasticy hoppiness on the bread malt touch. Not super offensive, but not my type of hops in a Red Irish ale.

Mar 28, 2024
12:00:18 AM
80 5e Baron Flanelle (Simcoe & Columbus) Canada American Pale Ale 3.8

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

A slight haze, golden colour with a big frothy, creamyish white cap, good retention and thick foamy lacing left. The 90% of hops are Simcoe in here, giving a nice blend of citrus aromas with a piney touch, tropical fruits, and even get hints of honey. Enough bitterness for an APA, with lots of citrus zest, grapefruit notes, quite resinous overall. A pretty nice, dry, bitter American Pale ale with the Simcoe shinning.

Mar 27, 2024
01:30:02 AM
81 5e Baron / Dominion City RedWood Canada IPA 3.7

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

A slight hazed, amber colour with nice creamy-frothy, light-beige head, very long lasting and leaving full creaminess around the glass. Aromas blending the fruitiness of a red ale, mild caramel, toffee and the grassy hops of an IPA. The mouthfeel is wet, medium-bodied with a drying finish. Fruity malts in the flavours, a little toasty and decent grassiness to conclude. A pretty good collaboration Red IPA that is easy to drink.

Mar 26, 2024
12:31:59 AM
82 5e Baron Thomas (Fût de Bourbon) Canada Abbey Tripel 3.6

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

375ml brown bottle. pouring a very slight hazed, golden-amber colour with a white head, leaving nice full-creamy lacing and top up the brew for the whole experience. The aromas are quite rich, sweet and fruity. The Bourbon is quite strong in here, with some banana notes, hints of dark fruits, maple and spices. The taste is a little better blended with the base of the original Tripel, some fruitiness, spices and sugars. A tad vanilla, oak, alcohol and caramel. Not a bad barrel-aged version of their Thomas (if you are into Bourbon), and nice to try... but I will stick to the original version.

Mar 25, 2024
11:22:56 PM
83 5e Baron Chateau Marmont Canada IPA 3.7

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Lightly unfiltered with very tiny particles floating around. A white frothy head, good retention and thick foamy lacing left. Straw malt base, cereal notes with some citrusy hops. Grassiness with caramel in the background. The taste shows grassy bitterness, but cut short with caramel malt lingering. A good standard American IPA that is well-balanced.

Mar 24, 2024
09:32:26 PM
84 5e Baron Sous le Soleil de Taormina Canada Gose 3.7

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Lightly hazy, golden-orange colour with white cap, decent stay for the style and some soapy lacing spots. left. Bold orange aromas with nice sourness, hints of saltiness and the tangerine blending in later. The fruits are milder in the taste with a tad tart. The sour and salty notes are well-balanced in the flavours, making this another pretty good, fruity Gose from this brewer.

Mar 24, 2024
08:44:00 PM
85 Messorem Pils Partout Justice Nulle Part Canada Bohemian / Czech Pilsener 3.8

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Lightly hazy, bright golden colour with a big frothy white head, very long retention and thick, fluffy-creamy lacing left. Getting some smoky malts in the aromas with the herbal blending with it. Hints of mintiness, also continuing in the flavours. Fresh, grassy tasting with a crisp mouthfeel. A good looking Pilsner with some nice hoppy-herbal notes.

Mar 24, 2024
07:41:46 PM
86 Lagabière IPA Canada IPA 2.6

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Lightly hazed, golden colour with a white frothy cap, decent stay and some lacing spot and a thick soapy ring. Started off with nice aromas of hops, some citrus notes, but eventually - a medicinal, soapy scent comes out. Not crazy offensive, but not pleasant as well. Some apples come blend this a bit. A touch better in the taste with mild citrus zest, but some light tarty-wax is present. A little off all-around. Alright for those looking for a cheaper regular IPA that has a little NE-style in it, but much better out there for the price.

Mar 24, 2024
07:09:54 PM
87 La Souche Maui Gold Canada IPA 3.5

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Hazy golden-yellow colour with a bubbly off-white head, dissipating rather quickly and leaving not much lacing. Citrus aromas with the pineapple notes, herbal hints. The taste shows citrus zest, mild bitterness with this, decent juiciness, sweetness from the pineapples. Some zesty, lightly spiciness in the mouthfeel. A good NEIPA with a pineapple touch, and good zestiness.

Mar 24, 2024
01:25:38 AM
88 La Souche Limoiloise Canada English Pale Ale 3.4

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Can that pours a fairly clean, bright golden colour with a frothy white head, good stay and leaving thick, foamy lacing. Cereal grain aromas with some decent herbal hops that come out eventually, and hints of mineral water. The taste shows the nice blending hops and malts that a Pale Ale should have. A decent English Pale Ale that has the malts, and milder hops, but still nicely balanced all-around.

Mar 23, 2024
11:51:02 PM
89 Brasserie du Bas-Canada Fragments Canada Imperial Stout 4.1

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Wow, lots going on in this one - description is longest I have seen on these 750ml bottles with wax top. Roasted malt aromas with an alcoholic nose, chocolate, nuttiness (coconut), red wine notes and hints of molasses. Smooth, oily mouthfeel with a touch of drying. Grape, vinous flavours with coffee, molasses, roasted barley, decent bitterness, a tad woodiness, vanilla-oak. Quite a nice balance of Imperial Stout and Barleywine, with the Bourbon being well-blended, and many other barrel and mild vanilla.

Mar 23, 2024
09:16:05 PM
90 La Souche Misère Noire Canada Imperial Stout 3.9

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Pours a real dark brown colour with mild ruby-copper highlights. A huge creamy-frothy, warm-beige head, very nice retention and loads of sticky-creamy lacing. Roasted malt aromas with what seems to be oat sweetness nicely balancing things, but no - it is sugar listed in the ingredients. A touch of cacao-chocolate comes out with time, even a tad coffee. Flavours of roasted barley with no sweetness, but nice bitterness from the three hops. Grassy, but quite nicely blending with the hints of chocolate malts. A very, nicely brewed American Imperial Stout that goes down beautifully.

Mar 23, 2024
12:40:18 AM
91 Helm Sans Souci Canada Gose 3.8

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Hazy, lightly unfiltered as well, golden colour, maybe an amber light hue. A whitish small cap, average stay and some decent lacing spots. Fruity nose with some sourness and hints of salt, coriander. The flavours blend even better the sour notes with the saltiness, spices, fruitiness and light tart. Another good sumac brew, as I am really enjoying this natural beauty added to beers.

Mar 21, 2024
09:32:43 PM
92 Robin Triple au Sirop d'Érable Canada Abbey Tripel 3.8

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours a slightly hazed, golden colour with an amber hue, an off-white head, average and decent lacing. Wild, sour aromas with fresh apple juices, vinegar notes and hints of.... not maple, but oak-vanilla. If there is maple, it is a tad in the flavours, blending some mild sweetness, with the apples fruitiness, to the funkiness. A touch of wood and vanilla. Thankfully, after swirling the end of the bottle, getting a touch of maple. Was expecting more of a Triple, and maple - but no, got a nice funky-apple brew instead.

Mar 21, 2024
08:30:02 PM
93 Robin Mirabelle Canada Saison 4.0

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Lightly hazed, bright, light golden-yellow with a white head that stays a while and leaving a nice ring around the top of the brew. Sour aromas with some nice fruitiness like apples and white grapes. The sourness continues in the taste with the same fruitiness. The sour notes lingers quite a long time, which is nice instead of having a short finish, and tart left on the tongue. Quite a smooth sour, fruity beer with one of the longest lasting sourness I have had - and that is just fine, with yellow plums that is interesting.

Mar 21, 2024
01:05:15 AM
94 La Souche Beach Royale (12e anniversaire) Canada Wild Ale 3.6

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Clean, red-purple colour with fizzy pinkish head that dissipates rather quickly, and no lacing left. Sour nose with a mix of the blueberries and blackcurrant. The sour is present in the taste, and a tad puckering, but not lasting too long. The blueberry-blackcurrant fruitiness continues, but as Souche beer, always on the tamer side of things. Even the alcohol content, I cannot feel. Feels like a 5% ABV or less. Hints of cherries comes out near the last pour. Quite an easy-drinking, fruity, sour Imperial Wild Ale.

Mar 20, 2024
11:18:59 PM
95 5e Baron Venice Beach Canada IPA 3.8

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Pours a clean, golden colour with minimal carbonation, a big frothy-bubbly white cap, good retention and thick soapy lacing left all-around. Beautiful fruitiness at first (peach, passion fruit) in the aromas, with the hops coming though eventually, blending mild grassiness. A tad yeast shows up way later. The fruits continue in the taste, but this is balance again by the hops that gives a building dryness, with herbal notes. Hints of spiciness to enhance things. Quite a nice American IPA with a nice mix of fruits, grass, dryness and spiced up.

Mar 20, 2024
01:29:39 AM
96 La Souche Hedleyville Canada Scottish Ale 3.7

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours a dark amber colour with golden highlights. The head is light-beige, with average retention and some decent creamy-foamy lining lacing, and spots. A minty, herbal hoppiness in the aromas, over the sweet malt base and good maple notes. Hints of wheat-bananas do come out with time. The maple nicely comes out in the taste, and the hops do cut the sweetness. Not syrupy at all, going down nicely, and not too thick. Grassiness lingers, but not as minty as the nose. Quite a nice, real maple, thinner Wee Heavy with higher hoppiness.

Mar 19, 2024
11:26:56 PM
97 5e Baron Lakeview Canada American Pale Ale 3.5

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

A very slight unfiltered, but mostly clean golden colour with a small head, a little retention and lacing. Aromas are quite nice, as not overhopped, with the cereal grains coming through, and mild grassiness, hints of yeast. The taste has some spiciness like a Pilsner, maybe Saaz hops or Pils malts. Pretty wet mouthfeel with a tad dryness, and herbal notes lingering. A nice Pale Ale that reminds me of the old school ones, but with a touch of Pils spiciness.

Mar 19, 2024
01:04:30 AM
98 5e Baron Boombox Canada Imperial IPA 3.9

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Can from the brewery that pours a hazy golden colour with an amber hue. The head fluffy-frothy, off-white, long lasting and leaving lots of foamy lacing streaks and patches. Many blending fruitiness in the nose (oranges, mangoes, stone fruits and other tropical fruits) with a touch of spiciness, mild grassiness. The taste continues this fruitiness, all balanced with nothing really sticking out. Grassy hops, herbal notes lingers. Quite a nice juicy Double NEIPA with a bunch of blending fruits, and decent hoppiness in the finish. Feels like their Mixtape series doubled up.

Mar 18, 2024
11:58:54 PM
99 5e Baron Double Douglas Canada Imperial IPA 3.8

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Lightly hazed, golden colour with a frothy white head, good retention and some foamy lacing spots left. The aromas are well-blended, milder, with the piney notes over caramel malts, hints of citrus and residual sugar. The taste shows hoppiness, grassiness like the West Coast style it is, but not a hop bomb. Being an Imperial IPA, again well-blended pine, caramel and decent building dryness in the finish. Citrus zest lingers, and a tad tartiness. Such an easy-drinking, Double West Coast IPA.

Mar 18, 2024
11:10:04 PM
100 5e Baron Bear Hug Canada American Black Ale 3.7

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours a real dark brown colour with ruby highlights, a mocha-coloured frothy head, good stay, some creaminess and leaving sticky lacing. Roasted malt aromas as base with molasses, prunes and white wine notes. The mouthfeel is smooth, lightly oily and some decent building dryness comes out of it. Flavours of malted barley with some grassiness from the hops. An interesting Black IPA with the Nelson Sauvin giving a tad white grapes angle to it.

Mar 17, 2024
11:33:06 PM