Neat looking beer, eh? This is one of those beers I would never have remembered having if it were not for ratebeer.com. I've only had it once - after the Spring Cask Beer Festival at Volo last year. I happened to be sitting around after the fest and I started chatting with Stephen Beaumont, Canada's leading beer writer (he is also involved in Beer Bistro's fantastic beer menu), and Nicholas Pashley, author of a very very funny and informative book regarding the quest for the perfect pub and Toronto's beer and pub scene over the years - Notes on a Beermat. Good chaps. Anyway, Stephen had brought along a bottle to share with Ralph, owner of Volo, and they were nice enough to share it with me. This was it. My notes from ratebeer:
Bottle. Dark purple, no head - very still looking. Incredible aroma of grape, black currants and plum. Wow. Complex fruity taste - lots of fruit noted in aroma plus vanilla and a big alcohol punch. I have no idea how else to describe this beer except that it was immense and complex and very enjoyable. Thanks for sharing!
This is one of those beers I could never have imagined myself trying say 6 years ago, yet alone liking. But there you go, know I can dig a gigantic 10% Fruity Belgian Quadrupel as interpreted by a good American Micro Brewery.
Availability? Not here, not even at the beer bars; maybe down in Buffalo at the good beer shops. And speaking of good beer shops, we now have a little less distance to cover, as Niagara Falls, NY, now features a Consumers Beverage Store, which has a great beer selection and even fills up Growlers of good micro beer. Now to get it over the border....
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