L'Orage Noir
Cannery Brewing Company
- From:
- Cannery Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.4 | pDev: 10.29%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 16, 2015
- Added:
- Dec 07, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.29/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.29/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Appearance - Pours a dark mahogany brown with two fingers of creamy tan head.
Smell - light spicy belgian yeast, toffee, candied sugar, dark fruits (raisin, plum), earthy and leafy hops, bready caramel malts, and booze.
Taste - light spicy beligan yeast followed by the toffee and candied sugar then goes into the dark fruits (raisin, plum), earthy and leafy hops, bready caramalts, and booze. The flavours are quite mellow considering the style.
Mouthfeel - Medium to full bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes dry with a lingering sweetness from the candied sugar.
Overall - A mellow Belgian dark strong. I find that Cannery played the flavours very safe with this one. Its easy enough to drink, however, adjustments need to be made to make this more true to the style.
Feb 13, 2015Smell - light spicy belgian yeast, toffee, candied sugar, dark fruits (raisin, plum), earthy and leafy hops, bready caramel malts, and booze.
Taste - light spicy beligan yeast followed by the toffee and candied sugar then goes into the dark fruits (raisin, plum), earthy and leafy hops, bready caramalts, and booze. The flavours are quite mellow considering the style.
Mouthfeel - Medium to full bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes dry with a lingering sweetness from the candied sugar.
Overall - A mellow Belgian dark strong. I find that Cannery played the flavours very safe with this one. Its easy enough to drink, however, adjustments need to be made to make this more true to the style.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle, the latest in Cannery's Artisan Creation series, with a French name (black storm) that I suppose owes its existence to the style, rather than point of origin.
This beer pours a clear, dark ruby amber hue, with two skinny fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and generally bubbly beige head, which leaves but a few specks of random remote islet lace around the glass as it quickly ablates.
It smells of semi-sweet bready caramel malt, edgy Belgian yeast, dark sugar, indistinct black orchard fruit (duh!), and plain earthy, weedy, and duly perfumed hops - that alcohol is none too shy. The taste is more subdued grainy, bready caramel malt, a further wet dark breadiness, tittering, seen it all yeast, still underdeveloped black, or maybe just overly bruised fruit, blithe brown sugar, musty, weedy hops, and a surprisingly benign metallic booziness.
The carbonation is pleasantly understated in its trilling frothiness, the body on the light side for the purported style, and smooth, but with a metric ton of caveats - any one hardly noteworthy, but together, it just don't cut muster. 'It' finishes off-dry, sure, but not overly so, the meaty yeast holding the reins of the bridled caramel/toffee malt, while the adjunct sugar and booze round out this little joint.
Yeah, all the proscribed players are present and accounted for, but the one thing that's missing, and of course it's the most important, is that je ne sais quoi blended quality that one expects of the best of breed here. Easy enough to drink for its general big-ness, but not, as noted, as enjoyable or engaging as those old-world, and maybe a few new-world offerings who have already long planted their Belgian-loving flags.
Dec 07, 2014This beer pours a clear, dark ruby amber hue, with two skinny fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and generally bubbly beige head, which leaves but a few specks of random remote islet lace around the glass as it quickly ablates.
It smells of semi-sweet bready caramel malt, edgy Belgian yeast, dark sugar, indistinct black orchard fruit (duh!), and plain earthy, weedy, and duly perfumed hops - that alcohol is none too shy. The taste is more subdued grainy, bready caramel malt, a further wet dark breadiness, tittering, seen it all yeast, still underdeveloped black, or maybe just overly bruised fruit, blithe brown sugar, musty, weedy hops, and a surprisingly benign metallic booziness.
The carbonation is pleasantly understated in its trilling frothiness, the body on the light side for the purported style, and smooth, but with a metric ton of caveats - any one hardly noteworthy, but together, it just don't cut muster. 'It' finishes off-dry, sure, but not overly so, the meaty yeast holding the reins of the bridled caramel/toffee malt, while the adjunct sugar and booze round out this little joint.
Yeah, all the proscribed players are present and accounted for, but the one thing that's missing, and of course it's the most important, is that je ne sais quoi blended quality that one expects of the best of breed here. Easy enough to drink for its general big-ness, but not, as noted, as enjoyable or engaging as those old-world, and maybe a few new-world offerings who have already long planted their Belgian-loving flags.
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