Farm Table: Patersbier
Beau's All Natural Brewing Company

 

Straw and hazy with lots of carbonation, and 6 fingers of white head.

Smells of coriander, peaches, and dill.

Tastes of Belgian phenols, peaches and coriander.

Light body, slightly sticky, with little carbonation.

Love the label and the whole theme behind this brew, as well as the fact its kept at such a low ABV. Easy drinking but interesting. Tastes like an authentic Belgian brew. Drinking at Muskoka, Dec 19th, 2017.

 

Hazy straw color with low activity. Deep cloudy with the yeast. Foamy and slightly creamy light beige 2-3 finger head, lasting around 10 minutes, with poor legs and a decent swirl effect. Flavors of lemon, sweet grains, wheat, spices, Belgian yeast, Wild yeast, caramel, and floral hops. Slick and oily medium to full body with strong crispy carbonation. Light to medium strength finish, sharp and dry, a slightly vinous with citrusy dry hops, a bit of straw and flowery. A cross between Pale Ale and Saison from hints of cheese, kinda like a Belgian rustic pale ale. The maillard effect is too pronounced and overwhelming. So it lacks a bit of complexity. Feels a bit more alcoholic, like 7%. Balanced bitterness and sugars. Still really fresh and pleasant to drink. Overall high quality craft.

 

Still traveling across Canada and I've now arrived in Timmons. They have one brewery but it was closed when I arrived so I bought a couple of beers from Beau's Brewing. This one is a very light coloured ale that has a slightly saisson aroma and taste. Looks like this is from a March batch but it still tastes very fresh. This would be an amazing session ale on a summers day.

 

Draft: Poured a golden color ale with a medium foamy head with OK retention. Aroma of light residual sugar and fruity ester is enjoyable enough. Taste is a mix of Belgian malt notes with some residual sugar notes and some fruity ester. Body is about average with good carbonation. Easy drinking Belgian ale with maybe a tad too much residual sugar.

Fruity, aromatic, approachable. A fine table beer.

 

 

 

600ml bottle - part of a few new offerings from this Ontari-ari-ari-o brewery to recently show up in Alberta.

This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three fat fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fairly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random blotchy lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.

It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, further indistinct wheaten cereals, mixed autumn garden veggies (peas, corn, and a little carrot too - thanks Reverend Horton Heat!), muddled earthy spice, a touch of edgy yeastiness, and very tame leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, sort of spicy wheaty notes, an ethereal domestic citrus fruitiness, earthy yeast, ephemeral table-top pepper mill spice, and more grassy, herbal, and equally verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is average for the called-for style, via is tacky frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and sort of smooth, as the edginess of both grain and yeast alike don't play well in the sticks, it would seem. It finishes trending dry, the same essences from the mouthfeel carrying through with their burgeoning plans.

Overall, this comes across as a rather disjointed affair, with the adherence to the given style not particularly tightly woven. At any rate, not a bad brew, per se, but with some strange flavours that really don't offend my better sensibilities, but neither do they engender in me the desire for another serving.

 

Bottle from the lcbo for around $5.