Today's Tuesday Tasting will feature 3 brews from Quebec. Last July buddy's group, Boucan Sound System, was hired to play a gig at the 3rd year Anniversary bash of Tete d'Allumette (Match Head) Brewery out in the wilds of Eastern Quebec in Kamouraska. Here's a clip of my buddy's music:
As I was going to visit him shortly after, I asked him to try and pick up some of their brews for me to try. They kindly hooked him up with three 1-liter growlers of:
Tête Carrée a 4% English Style Bitter that's in Ratebeer's Top 50 for the Style, Apache a 5.5% Smoked Ale 5.5% and Pioche a 5.5% Saison.
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| Cool looking 1L growlers |
And now on to the beers!
Bitter Anglaise Minerale 4.2% 28 IBU
A cloudy matte gold with a crazy aroma of grains that honestly made me think it smells like the countryside when the malts are ripe for harvesting.
The taste is malt forward, lightly nutty but with a herbaciously bitter edge. Cool stuff, drinks dead easy.
The taste is malt forward, lightly nutty but with a herbaciously bitter edge. Cool stuff, drinks dead easy.
A nice looking brown with reddish highlights. Cracking the growler released a huge aroma of citrus and apricot, in my mug I got more of a flavor profile that features malty caramel with a touch of smoke.
The taste is surprisingly smokey with bitter nutty chocolate and floral hops. Good.
A golden orange color with s filmy head and a bready Orange and wheat aroma.
The taste is cloves, wheat, soda bread, a slight hit of acidity but quite smooth. Tasty stuff.
If you ever find yourself out in that part of rural Quebec pop in and treat yourself to some solid suds.
I enjoy the blog! I'm a big fan of craft beer myself, but living in Bangkok, I find it really hard to find a decent beer. How do you go about finding good beer? I would love to discover the craft beer scene in Thailand (if there is such a thing...) but I'm not sure where to look.
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with the scene in Thailand much but I know there's a Mikkeller Bangkok. Take a look at Ratebeer and their places section to find spots with good beer in Thailand. You can also check the Craft Beer Asia blog. Once you find places in Thailand with good beer you should like their Facebook pages to know about events, new imports, etc.
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