Equinoxe Du Printemps (Vieillie En Fût De Chêne)
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!
- From:
- Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 13.35%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 17
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 12, 2016
- Added:
- May 12, 2003
- Wants:
- 13
- Gots:
- 6
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by hoptheology from South Dakota
2.14/5 rDev -46.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
2.14/5 rDev -46.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
100% opaque, scotch color, beige highlights.
Maple nut and malts on the nose, not much else.
Flavor is heat, alcohol, metal, and a faint hint of malts. No maple, no scotch, no anything pleasurable.
Feel is starchy and semi dry.
Overall, is this even a scotch ale?? Total drain pour.
Nov 12, 2016Maple nut and malts on the nose, not much else.
Flavor is heat, alcohol, metal, and a faint hint of malts. No maple, no scotch, no anything pleasurable.
Feel is starchy and semi dry.
Overall, is this even a scotch ale?? Total drain pour.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.09/5 rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.09/5 rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Has elements of barleywine and scotch ale in the taste and feel. Robust wood tannins, barley, and booze combine well with the toffee, earthiness, molasses, and brown sugar. Smell is purer than taste, but same elements at work. Feel has nice layers of sweet, robust, smooth, and warm.
Aug 12, 2015
Reviewed by bylerteck from Canada (ON)
3.61/5 rDev -9.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.61/5 rDev -9.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Bottle from hoppypocket for CanBIF Fall 2013. From notes.
A - Poured deep ruby and nearly black. One finger of mocha head on top with strong carbonation coming up. Spotty lace and a film of retention.
S - Huge dark fruit, boozy, whiskey, sugar, dates.
T - Sweet. Whiskey, leather, very sweet with lot's of barrel character. Sugary sweet.
M - Full body, sweet and dry finish with good carbonation.
O/D - Quite a bit sweeter than I was expecting. Strong barrel character was a nice compliment, but it's hard to get over the sweetness. Not cloying, just really sweet. Worth a try, but I surely didn't enjoy it as much as I expected to.
Oct 19, 2013A - Poured deep ruby and nearly black. One finger of mocha head on top with strong carbonation coming up. Spotty lace and a film of retention.
S - Huge dark fruit, boozy, whiskey, sugar, dates.
T - Sweet. Whiskey, leather, very sweet with lot's of barrel character. Sugary sweet.
M - Full body, sweet and dry finish with good carbonation.
O/D - Quite a bit sweeter than I was expecting. Strong barrel character was a nice compliment, but it's hard to get over the sweetness. Not cloying, just really sweet. Worth a try, but I surely didn't enjoy it as much as I expected to.
Reviewed by stakem from Pennsylvania
4.11/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.11/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
2009 version 12oz bottle care of Kegatron. Thanks for the share Heath! Poured into a snifter, the brew appears a clear copper color with a tan finger that is quick to fade. A swirl revives some quick popping bubbles that are yellowish in color.
The aroma is caramel and toffee sweetness with some bourbon tang. Burnt sugar qualities fill the nose with a deeper character almost like molasses. Plenty of alcohol is present to cut the sweetness and transition the aromas. As it warms, there is a mild citrus aspect present.
The flavor is bourbon mixed with complex caramelized sugars like caramel, toffee and molasses. A bit candy-like with a soft amount of cardboard-like oxidation. The alcohol gets increasingly noticeable as the brew warms up but the residual sugar component helps to make it a bit easier going down.
This is a medium bodied brew with a modest amount of carbonation. It is a boozy sipper that displays a complex amount of malt/sugar quality. I found this to be quite enjoyable but slightly starting to show some age with the subtle oxidation notes poking through the residual sugars.
Jul 01, 2013The aroma is caramel and toffee sweetness with some bourbon tang. Burnt sugar qualities fill the nose with a deeper character almost like molasses. Plenty of alcohol is present to cut the sweetness and transition the aromas. As it warms, there is a mild citrus aspect present.
The flavor is bourbon mixed with complex caramelized sugars like caramel, toffee and molasses. A bit candy-like with a soft amount of cardboard-like oxidation. The alcohol gets increasingly noticeable as the brew warms up but the residual sugar component helps to make it a bit easier going down.
This is a medium bodied brew with a modest amount of carbonation. It is a boozy sipper that displays a complex amount of malt/sugar quality. I found this to be quite enjoyable but slightly starting to show some age with the subtle oxidation notes poking through the residual sugars.
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