Les Trois Mousquetaires Rauchbier
Série Signature. Voilá! A beer from chilly Quebec inspired by the "rauchbier" you find in Bamberg, Germany — a dark beer made partly from smoked malt, aged slowly at low temperatures, and put in the bottle unfiltered, with a fine yeast sediment. All for one!
3.6
173 reviews
Brossard, Canada
Community reviews
750 ml bottle. Pours deep reddy brown in colour, with frothy tan head. Head dissipates quickly, leaving tonnes of fine lacing behind. Aroma and taste are very smoky, roasted malt. Very drinkable rauchbier!
750ml BoTTle @ The Beer Kitchen .. . Pours a dark plum, head is medium size, lacing is quite good too .. . raisins, plum, molasses and a touch of smoke .. . very smooth, gets better as it warms .. . hi, my name is josh and strawberry kiwi ruined my life...
Corked bottle from Point Grey, Vancouver
Beautiful dark brown color; generous compact head. The smoke aroma is subdued, with wood and roasted malts. Good dark chocolate flavor, some roasted malt, light smoke and light sourness from the roasted malts; very light liquorice. Correct bitterness. Good beer, although not exactly what expected.
Bottle. Poured clear dark brown color with an average frothy off-white head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate smoke malty and yeast aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium complex sweet smoke flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. My expectation where met.
Bottle shared by dkachur at the 14th Richmond Gathering. Pours clear dark brown with a medium-small, fizzy tan head, short retention with light lacing. Aroma and flavor are heavy malt (caramel, toast, nutty, cookie), light hops (woody), and light esters (fruity) with notes of smoke, ash, meat, and dates. Full body, medium warmth and carbonation with a dry finish.
Bière noire et opaque sous un fin col beige relativement stable. Des arômes fulgurants et boisés de caramel, de fumée et de céréales rôties. Légèrement acide, mais bien amère. De corps généreux et capiteux, effervescence fine et constante, très longue flaveur amère / fumée en bouche.
(Sample Date: 3/19/2011 Source:Dkachur) Subtle Bamburg style smokiness over moderate caramelized sugar notes and malts sweetness in aroma. Clear very dark amber brown with small white head. Nice earthy smokiness with notes of Munich or Vienna style malts and earthy spicy hops. Clean. Medium body and mouth feel. Finish is medium sweet with smoke lingering.
Sampled at the Richmond 14th Gathering. Delightfully smokey and roasty. Like a smoked stout? Very good actually, but more ’stout’ and less ’smoke’. Wish it was more smoke heavy. Sampled again at the river. again wished it were smokier. Beautiful dark brown pour with red highlights. very sweet molasses notes.
It pours almost as dark as a Stout but when held to the light reveals a deep chestnut color. I poured aggressively and a thick and appealing two finger head developed in my 1 liter dimpled stein. The head endured for minutes and left some sticky and stringy lacing on the glass.
The aroma, obviously, was quite smoky. If you could liquefy the experience around a campfire this is likely what you would get. The smoke aroma reminds me specifically of smoked bacon or wood chips. Despite the strength and uniqueness of the smoke you can still easily identify the malts in the nose. The more subtle presence I can pick out is dark fruits.
The taste is very bold and flavorful. It is very rich and malty and reminds me a bit of ales brewed Belgian style. The finish is all smoke. The taste of smoked wood and smoked meat lingers satisfyingly after the swallow. You can still pick out the dark fruits along with a new touch of caramel and dark chocolate.
The beer is medium bodied with noticeable but light carbonation. It has a smooth mouthfeel and is bit thicket in the mouth that a straight lager or ale.
Some say you get accustomed to the smokiness by the end; however, I must have sipped it slow enough as I was accustomed to nothing by the end. It was very enjoyable and a pleasing first foray into rauchbier.
750mL bottle. Poured lower-viscosity deeper brown with a short-lived, fizzy tan head. The aroma picked up dark chocolates, a pinch of cherry, and molasses with mild accents of smoked malt (could’ve been cherrywood, which would’ve explained the cherry I found).. soft overall, and very welcoming. The flavor found black patent and chocolatey malts at the core, with lightly sour smoked malts laced throughout.. well-balanced, with few flaws, but it really wasn’t that interesting.. could’ve used a bit heavier malt bill and more smoke. Medium-bodied at the very most on the palate.. lower carbonation.. overall a fairly enjoyable brew.
pours copper, slight haze, with a creamy off-white head. malty and smoked, of course! smoke is present but it really allows other esters to show. good malty profile, caramel and roasted malts, average carbonation. another great offering from LTM. all for one!
750 c&c from Wine & Cheese in Clayton, MO. Pours dark brown with a foamy tan head. The aroma is quite smokey. Med body. Sharpish carbonation. Flavor is smoke over something like very light citrus and some firm dark malt. Almost chocolate. Smoked chocolate? Maybe not.
A fantastic, well-balanced Rauchbier. Has that campfire characteristic that I love but isn’t overpowering and is extremely drinkable. Kind of like a good smoked porter rather than a pure Rauchbier, lots of rich dark malt flavors including cocoa sweetness. Great beer.
This Canadian rauchbier pours a very dark brown colour with a nice big beige head that is creamy, has great retention and creates lots of lace all around. Light brown-red highlights can be seen. Smells mostly like a stout, with coffee, molasses and roasted malt. The smoke aroma is almost not present. At least, it is found a bit more in the taste (I guess they did not want to shock people, that did not know about these rauchbiers). Creamy-tarty mouthfeel with a little stick to it, that is just right for this one. Overall, lacking smoke character, but still pretty good (especially for those who are new to this style).
750 pours brown with ruby edges and a huge frothy light brown head. Aroma of bacon, wood, caramel, vanilla. Taste has lots of smoke flavor and also a lot of caramel and fruity sweetness. Very smooth texture. Finishes with some burnt bitterness.
Smooth smoked lager, very drinkable. SLight edge to the smoked malts. Sweetish smoke and also some lighter fluid. A bit of licorice, caramel and nuttiness. Pours brown with generous white head. Medium mouthfeel. Suitably carbonated. Good balance overall
750ml bottle. very deep brown with a medium, creamy tan head. very nice aroma with just enough smoke without being overpowering over chocolate scents from the malt. flavor has mostly tootsie roll, fudgy, chocolate malt with a hint of smoke. i could use a little more smoke in the flavor to cut the sweet chocolatey malts. medium bodied.
Bottle. Pours cloudy brown with a golden head. Light smoky and honeyish nose. Slightly fizzy mouthfeel, which makes the body feel a tad too light. Roast and smoke flavours on a nutty base. Burned sugar on the tongue afterwards.
Mild smoke aroma, yet full bodied. dark brown,pale ring of a tan head. soft, gentle full bodied smoke, tasty and smooth. finishes molasses sweet, little herbal
Bottle. Pours black with tiny tan head. Good carbonation. Nose is BBQ, hops and smoke. Taste is BBQ bacon, hops and smoke. More hoppy than most smoked beers.
Brown pour with tan head and lace. Smoke and peat. Sweet roasted malt with light dry finish. Medium bodied with aggressive carbonation.
Sample at the Hawai’i Admission Day tasting from a bottle thanks to grownfool. Brown-red, tan head. Nice light meat aroma, ash. Taste is light smoke, meat, ash, campfire.
Bottle sample thanks to Milos- Decants deep mahogany into my snifter, with a frothy eggsgell cap. Smoky nose also hints at wood, burnt caramel, earth, faint hops. Tastes only lightly of the smoke, wood, bitter hops, bacon, some caramelized sugars. High drinkability tells you it is a lager, with a marked bitter finish. Good effort!
Sampled at the Hawai’i Admission Day tasting. Pours a deep purple black with tan head. The aroma is sweet and raisiny with a meaty smoke note and a little bit of chocolate. The flavor is raisin, light chocolate, cherrywood smoke, a little bit of pine, and some roastiness. There is an earthy tone to the finish and a raisin aftertaste. Not bad.
Dark brown with a tan head. Smoked caramel aroma. Flavor has some dust, caramel, earth, and smoke. Finishes lightly sweet, good carbonation.
A velvety and quebeckky creation. Pours deep brown, near opaque, reddy tinge through it and massive puffy dark tan head. Aroma is herbal wood, coffee, yeast, sweet stuff like molasses. Taste is pretty sweet-acidic in general balance, with flavors of molasses and toasty vanilla and dark fruit playing off the slight woody cask character and coffee and cocoa, wine and stone cellar, some underbrush and wild mushroom, a little smoke hiding under all the sensuous build up of rounded flavors. 0 % rauchbier but 100 % Quebec beer, which is to say not like anything else.
Bouteille 750 ml. 5%. Couleur brun très foncé rougeâtre. Mousse beige intense. Nez de fumée, de caramel, de chocolat et de noix. Bonne effervescence en bouche, goût de fumée assez présent mais pas trop, notes de cerise noires et de malt. Finale fumée sans amertume.
Sample at the Hart House Craft Beer Festival. Bottle, served in a tasting glass. Pours black with a lasting tan head. On the nose, aromas of smoke, burnt malts, molasses, coffee, herbs and grass. Flavour is lightly sweet throughout, with a light bitterness emerging towards the end. The finish is average in duration, with a malty character. On the palate, it is medium in body with a watery texture and soft carbonation. This beer reminded me of the days before smoking was banned in pubs. Once the smoke cleared, however, only an empty feeling remained. I would have prefered a rounder malt profile. 2010-07-29
Bottle from 16th St. Liquor in West Vancouver. Pours a cola brown with voluminous mocha head that diminishes to a nice 2cm cap. Aroma is certainly lightly roasted, smoky malt with a sweetness ascending through. Taste is very mild in the smoke which I prefer. Not overly malty either and perhaps a tad too thin. Slight taste that reminded me of dried leaves, perhaps campfire. Decent.
750ml corked & caged bottle sample at Hart House beer festival July 29 2010. Near-opaque ruby pour with an average diminishing creamy light brown head (4-). Smells like woodsmoke, bacon, BBQ lighter fluid and caramel roasty goodness - not too smoky; nice. Taste follows, a tad more alcohol and smoke than in the aroma. Light body, weak carbonation, a bit astringent, finishes quickly and leaves a smoky linger - easy-drinking and pretty solid.