Blanche de Chambly

[TimL]

Self-description/Style-Goal: "In the spring of 1992, Unibroue marketed its first beer on lees, the Blanche de Chambly. It contains 5 percent alcohol and is produced from an interesting blend of unmalted Quebec wheat and pale barley malt, to which spices and natural aromatics are added, along with a light hopping.

The Blanche is only partially filtered so that it retains the full benefits of its natural ingredients. This gives it the cloudy appearance that was characteristic of pale beers in the Middle Ages. While it is naturally of a champagne color, it appears white because of the fresh yeast in suspension." / Whit

Color: Light yellow/ shadowy gold
Alcohol by Vol: 5%
Carbonation:medium-low
Nose: Lemon cake, subdued hefeweisen notes.
Taste: whit with more malt, citrusy background
Finish: clean;maltier and not as dry as a other whits I've had.

I went to the beer store this weekend. At the liquor store, you pick up your Bass, your Avery White Rascal, your Paulaner. At the beer store, you find bottles that are bombers are larger with the stuff you wish the liquor store close to you had- rauchbier, Saisson Dupont, Belgium craziness, etc.

So, the beer store had a couple champagne corked Chambly beers "on sale" at $3.99. I picked up a Blanche De Chambly and a Chambly Noir.

Just finished the Blanch de Chambly... an interesting version of a "white ale"... a bit more mouthfeel and maltiness than Hoegardeen, a more subdueed citrus and spice flavor than White Rascal.

Overall I like it, but at $4 for a pint and half, economics tells me to go for the Avery or even the Hoegaarden at $9-10 for a six-pack.

[igloobrew]

All of Unibrou's beers are quite expensive, this one in particular is a tad sweet for my tastes, and when you look at picking up a 6 pack in western canada its like 15 dollars. there are less expensive better tasting options i think, althought they do a couple beers that are worth the money.

[rhino777]

Strangely enough, I just got a 25oz of Chambly last night. I quite enjoyed it. Although maybe it was just the palate cleansing effect after that banana bread beer I had.

[Mylo]

I had the Blanche and the Noir in a mixed 12 pack of Unibroue bottles (the near equivalent of 12 oz). They had a special at BevMo - $17.

The Blanche was not bad. I prefer Hogaarden. I did like there Green Apple Ephemere. Best is the Trois Pistoles, tho...


Mylo

[Thirsty Boy]

I just had a couple of bottles of the Blanche at a bar here in Melbourne

Half price @ $5.25 for a 330ml bottle. By typical Melbourne beer bar standards, the $10.50 full price wasn't even expensive to begin with. To give a comparison of local beer prices - near the best I could do in a large discount liquor store for a 330ml (around half a pint) bottle of Hoegarden would be $3.50 ish a six pack would be in the order of $20.00 or so. And we have it good compared to people outside the major cities!!!

I really quite liked the Blanche, but found that it was pushing the limits of what I would define as a Witbier - I thought it was kind of halfway to being a saison. I'd had a couple of Matilda Bay's Barking Duck Saisons earlier in the evening, and the Blanche had more in common with those than with a Hoegarden.

[shunt]

well it will be hard for me to go against this beer, it is brewed a few minutes from where I live. Even here it's a little more expensive but the price has gone down since Unibroue was acquired by Sleeman.

I do enjoy La Blanche but no more than 2-3 pints for me. Just like the Hoegaarden. I really like those kinds of beer but since the carbonation is kinda high, I get that full stomach feeling after only a few.
La Blanche is still up there with my favorites in this style but have had some that get more of my attention.

Unibroue makes some delicious beer but around here many people have moved away from it since it was taken over by Sleeman. Does not have that ''microbrewery'' feeling anymore.
I kinda agree with the whole passion for craft beer, and small batches but sometimes you just have to let your guard down and enjoy a good beer.
At least it's not a Coors.

happy drinking