Ash reviews Boreale Blanche wheat beer.
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Boreale Blanche wheat beer review
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by Ashley
Cotter-Cairns
This bottle had me at "Hello". Polar
bears are my favourite
animal (those of you who have had the pleasure of viewing my La Fin du Monde
review will have met Poley, the world’s most intelligent
stuffed animal
and my
lifelong companion).
This means that beers with polar
bears on the bottle get a
couple of additional brownie points before I even open them.
Fortunately for everybody’s
fragile
sanity, there’s more to
this beer than a bear-clad label. Boreale is a pretty well-known brand,
produced by Les
Brasseurs du Nord out of
I'd yet to have tasted any of these beers, though, so it was with some relish that I twisted open the top and poured out a glassful.
Boreale Blanche wheat beer
Being a white wheat beer, Boreale Blanche pours a crisp golden yellow. Its smell is incredible.
You expect that white beer wheaty
nose,
which is of course present, but there's a stong citrus-lemony scent,
plus one
other spicy element you don't see coming until it hits you: ginger!
A quick glance at the back of the label makes subtle reference to its blend of "wheat, oats and malted barley, highlighted by a zestful blend of hops and spices." See! I am not a complete idiot after all.
I actually got to meet the brewers at
the recent Mondiale de la Bier
in Montreal and confirmed that yes, ginger IS part of this drink.
Investigative journalism, eat your heart out. (Is that a Pulitzer I
hear being giftwrapped?)
There is virtually no aftertaste,
either, just a gentle meandering
mellowing of what you already tasted. The overall balance is medium,
not too
sweet and certainly not bitter. It's not fizzy, at least not overly so,
which
is also a pleasant discovery. Many
Just one downside here. Those of you used to the standard wheat beer taste might find its zingy quality a little off-putting. But you're a bunch of wimps!
Seriously, Boreale Blanche is superb, but it should perhaps have made some mention of the unusual flavour in its name. Boreale Blanche Gingembre would have been a safer bet. I love it, but not everybody will.
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