Labatt Bleue
Aug. 30th, 2010 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
metawidgetLabatt Bleue is the beer that was around the house during my childhood. The label has changed several times since then, and they added a significant digit to the alcohol percentage, but it was my baseline archetypal beer. I think the Quebec-ness appeals to my dad (a well-rooted transplant to rural Quebec from what used to be rural Mississauga), and the simplicity, and the ubiquity and unpretentiousness.
I poured it, chilled, into a goblet-y water glass, and had it with bruschetta and beet soup (my dad has a habit of ordering the soup at restaurants — I remember lots of small orders of whatever main dish, and the soup — there is always a full stop after the word soup when he orders, too. Soup.) It had a thin, quickly dissipating head, lots of bubbles, and a pale golden colour. It doesn't have a whole lot of aroma or bitterness — the taste is of fresh grain. It's light but not watery, and quite refreshing. I suspect the ingredients list is pretty short. I thought tonight of rating all 30 beers by difficulty and tastiness at the end of this series, and Bleue is definitely well into the easy-and-tasty quadrant.
I poured it, chilled, into a goblet-y water glass, and had it with bruschetta and beet soup (my dad has a habit of ordering the soup at restaurants — I remember lots of small orders of whatever main dish, and the soup — there is always a full stop after the word soup when he orders, too. Soup.) It had a thin, quickly dissipating head, lots of bubbles, and a pale golden colour. It doesn't have a whole lot of aroma or bitterness — the taste is of fresh grain. It's light but not watery, and quite refreshing. I suspect the ingredients list is pretty short. I thought tonight of rating all 30 beers by difficulty and tastiness at the end of this series, and Bleue is definitely well into the easy-and-tasty quadrant.
