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Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!

Sour beer with some real mango fruit. It's like mango juice. The second beer I have taste has given me a better impression The description fit the taste. I'm upgrading to 3,75

 

 

 

341ml bottle (@5.9% ABV) - nice to see a summery brew arrive in Alberta during the week of the official start of winter, just sayin'.

This beer pours a murky, sludgy medium banana yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of spotty cloud form lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.

It smells of milky mango puree, a generic fruity sourness, and some plain bready and crackery cereal malt. The taste is fresh-squeezed mango juice, soured grain, lactic acid, a further indistinct citrus fruitiness, and some very, very tame earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite active in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a soft fruity creaminess evolving as soon as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, mango all the way.

Overall - yeah, this is seriously a one-trick pony, as the frooty mango character outmaneuvers the purported sourness with a lack of style and aplomb. I guess if you're a fan of mango lassi, this will appeal to you, and by coincidence, I am, so this is indeed pretty refreshing, but don't go in expecting yer typical sour German wheat ale.

 

341 ml. bottle.
Moderate pour yields an over one inch light orange head over an opaque orange body with no lacing. Head is gone in minutes. Nose of sour wheat and mango. Taste of mango, wheat, and slight citrus; finishing with mango. Feel is thick with a sort of mango nectar. Overall, a unique and very enjoyable offering from Quebec and is like a Mango Mimosa. Cheers!

 

 

From a 341ml bottle. Pours a thick almost soupy bright orange with a light similarly coloured head with little retention. Aroma: mango! Slightly earthy. Flavour: slightly sour earthy mango. Some carbonic bight. Dry finish - full bodied, almost heavy.

 

 

 

 

Bottle: Poured a bright orange color ale with a small foamy head with light retention and some minimal lacing. Aroma of sour notes is dominant with light citrus and mango notes also perceptible. Taste is a mix of sour mango notes with very little residual sugar notes and some acidity. Body is full with medium carbonation. Enjoyable but I would have preferred less acidity and more mango flavours.