Gros Mollet - Rhum
Microbrasserie Du Lac-Saint-Jean
- From:
- Microbrasserie Du Lac-Saint-Jean
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 9.7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.98 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 22, 2025
- Added:
- Jun 22, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Google Translated from French:
A great encounter between Gros Mollet and rum, simply exquisite. It's a very appetizing beer, light brown in color, topped with a lightly tinted head typical of Gros Mollet. On the nose, a beautiful intrigue of spices and alcohol. The discovery continues with pleasure on the palate, where pastry flavors carried by vanilla and rum complete the best treat of the year!
A great encounter between Gros Mollet and rum, simply exquisite. It's a very appetizing beer, light brown in color, topped with a lightly tinted head typical of Gros Mollet. On the nose, a beautiful intrigue of spices and alcohol. The discovery continues with pleasure on the palate, where pastry flavors carried by vanilla and rum complete the best treat of the year!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TheHammer from Canada (ON)
2.98/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.98/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Appearance: Poured without any head whatsovever, which is disappointed, as I wanted something. The surface carbonation I do see is reminiscent of a cola, although perhaps slightly smaller bubbles. The body also mirrors that as it is a slightly lighter cola brown.
Smell: Caramel malt, vanilla and Rum dominate the nose, with the rum coming across as the largest note, but just standing behind, towering behind the caramel and malt. Warming helps bring the whole beer out, but it didn't need a lot of it.
Taste: Malty brown ale caramel and toffee with maybe a hint of nut and passion fruit maybe to start, it's a really nice note, but the boozy undercurrent as the rum turns on the experience and smacks it in the face, with maybe the barest vanilla touch cheering on the devastation in the background which is rounded off by a clear high booze note, which even though it's clearly rum and you expect that spirit to be high ABV, still comes across as excessive in this medium.
Mouthfeel: The transistioning is not good, the sweet note clashes horribly with the rum and vanilla. Like the Rum is trying to eradicate it. It succeeds as the aftertaste comes across as clean, but that high boozey, solvent kind of clean. Carbonation helps out the whole beer which I guess is good.
Drinkability: Undisguised high ABV as this stuff drinks like it's boozier then wine, which isn't what you want in a beer. You want rum notes, not to taste like I am drinking straight rum, as I would buy rum if I wanted that. Sits boozy in the gut, but it's medium bodied so it's not so bad.
Final Thoughts: My take on this is rum barrels must be a much harder medium to work with then whisky. Where with whisky you need the beer to stand up to it, which is why you usually see stouts, porters, really nutty brown ale and even quads work well, with Rum, it's a more delicate dance. With those styles, they would probably over power the rum note (baring crazy aging of the Rum), but if you go to mild or age it too long, presumably this happens. This drinks like you made 14% rum and added caramel to it. Swing and a miss with what I would presume is a trickier medium to work with.
Jun 22, 2025Smell: Caramel malt, vanilla and Rum dominate the nose, with the rum coming across as the largest note, but just standing behind, towering behind the caramel and malt. Warming helps bring the whole beer out, but it didn't need a lot of it.
Taste: Malty brown ale caramel and toffee with maybe a hint of nut and passion fruit maybe to start, it's a really nice note, but the boozy undercurrent as the rum turns on the experience and smacks it in the face, with maybe the barest vanilla touch cheering on the devastation in the background which is rounded off by a clear high booze note, which even though it's clearly rum and you expect that spirit to be high ABV, still comes across as excessive in this medium.
Mouthfeel: The transistioning is not good, the sweet note clashes horribly with the rum and vanilla. Like the Rum is trying to eradicate it. It succeeds as the aftertaste comes across as clean, but that high boozey, solvent kind of clean. Carbonation helps out the whole beer which I guess is good.
Drinkability: Undisguised high ABV as this stuff drinks like it's boozier then wine, which isn't what you want in a beer. You want rum notes, not to taste like I am drinking straight rum, as I would buy rum if I wanted that. Sits boozy in the gut, but it's medium bodied so it's not so bad.
Final Thoughts: My take on this is rum barrels must be a much harder medium to work with then whisky. Where with whisky you need the beer to stand up to it, which is why you usually see stouts, porters, really nutty brown ale and even quads work well, with Rum, it's a more delicate dance. With those styles, they would probably over power the rum note (baring crazy aging of the Rum), but if you go to mild or age it too long, presumably this happens. This drinks like you made 14% rum and added caramel to it. Swing and a miss with what I would presume is a trickier medium to work with.
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