MacKroken Flower Sarrasin
Le Bilboquet, Brasseur Artisan
- From:
- Le Bilboquet, Brasseur Artisan
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy
- ABV:
- 10.8%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.84 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 11, 2023
- Added:
- Apr 11, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This revisited version of the MacKroken offers new aromas while preserving the very appreciated authenticity of our classic Scotch Ale. With its smooth texture being still present, this delicious version gets its high residual sugar from a new ingredient: honey made from buckwheat flowers.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire
3.84/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From a 473ml can, dated 11/01/23… I think. Served in a spiegelau tulip glass.
Pours a dark burnt-caramel colour with plum jam highlights and a scant half-finger of beige suds. Retention is wholly unremarkable, leaving a narrow creamy collar and a rousable sheet of thin, sudsy lacing. Dots of lacing persist.
Nose is sharp and sugary, and more grainy than malty. Aroma of caramel candies, orange peel and caramelized honey.
Taste is more sharp/less sweet than anticipated - more of a bitter, grainy bite than a smooth, malty sweetness. Tasting charred grain and burnt sugar. There’s an airy, flowery, light honey sweetness which is experienced more in the sinuses than on the palate.
Feel is smooth and round, more-or-less medium bodied but, I think, thin bodied relative to the style. Ample thin, bright carbonation and a mildly sticky, sugary finish.
Overall, tasty enough but not as good as I remember the OG MacKroken being. It’s less smooth and sweet and more of a charred and bitter, almost export stout sort-of hybrid thing. I will say, there is no sense of the 10.8% abv whatsoever, in either the taste or feel, which is amazing in itself.
Apr 11, 2023Pours a dark burnt-caramel colour with plum jam highlights and a scant half-finger of beige suds. Retention is wholly unremarkable, leaving a narrow creamy collar and a rousable sheet of thin, sudsy lacing. Dots of lacing persist.
Nose is sharp and sugary, and more grainy than malty. Aroma of caramel candies, orange peel and caramelized honey.
Taste is more sharp/less sweet than anticipated - more of a bitter, grainy bite than a smooth, malty sweetness. Tasting charred grain and burnt sugar. There’s an airy, flowery, light honey sweetness which is experienced more in the sinuses than on the palate.
Feel is smooth and round, more-or-less medium bodied but, I think, thin bodied relative to the style. Ample thin, bright carbonation and a mildly sticky, sugary finish.
Overall, tasty enough but not as good as I remember the OG MacKroken being. It’s less smooth and sweet and more of a charred and bitter, almost export stout sort-of hybrid thing. I will say, there is no sense of the 10.8% abv whatsoever, in either the taste or feel, which is amazing in itself.
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