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Brasserie du Bas-Canada in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦

  Stout - Imperial Regular
Score
7.25
ABV: 11.0% IBU: - Ticks: 11
Imperial Stout avec Amande Marcona biologique, Amande Biologique, Café Swiss Chocolate Almond & Vanille de Sri Lanka.

Artiste : Alexandre Mercier
 

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7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Mooch tasting, courtesy of Sergey
Black colour, with brown ring. Nice chocolate aroma, with notes of vanilla, leather. Unique feeling, it's very thick but not sweet (minimal sweetness), good notes of chocolate, vanilla, spicy coffee, alcohol. Some tobacco in the finish. Very good, weirdly not sweet.

Tried on 19 Jun 2022 at 03:47


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Leftovers from 750ml (thx, Eric D.!) from the 3 days ago tasting on Alex's porch. Appearance: dark brown with almost no head. Aroma: a chocolate bomb with noticeable vanilla and some nuts. Taste: along the same lines, with black chocolate and a bit of nice coffee aftertaste. Overall: very nice, not sure why others didn't like it during the initial tasting, maybe their taste buds were already destroyed? Definitely one the best lately released non-BA pastries.

Tried on 17 May 2022 at 02:16


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Jet black with a small white head. Dark chocolate and some dusty notes. Chocolate and raisin.

Tried from Bottle on 14 May 2022 at 06:57


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Dark brown, Toasty, has a chocolate accent, some coffee. On the palate, it's thin. There's some toast, some chocolate. Hint of vanilla. Not going anywhere, really.

Tried on 14 May 2022 at 05:39


4.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

750mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out toasted peanuts, with lots of cacao, and vanilla. Flavour is bizarre, with harsh, burnt nuts, harsh vanilla, harsh booziness, and a hint of sweetness. Harsh, boozy and just very bad... borderline undrinkable. Bad. What the hell, Bas-Canada?

Tried from Bottle on 14 May 2022 at 05:36


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Got the last of the keg at the Gatineau brewery, as picking up my weekly stash. Dark brown colour with a beige head and good foamy patches of lacing. Big chocolate, cacao powder most with the almond and vanilla well-blended. The mouthfeel is smooth with the alcohol well-hidden. The taste shows the chocolate, but not too sweet. More on the cacao side with the mild almond-vanilla lingering. Enough hops, coffee bitterness to cut the sweet typical dessert feel. Hints of raisins eventually come out in the finish. Another good one to sip and enjoy slowly.

Tried on 24 Mar 2022 at 03:41


8

Tried on 06 Feb 2022 at 01:22


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

(750ml bottle from the brewery webshop, thanks Luc for the assist!) Pours black with a tiny pale tan head and no lace. Aroma is dark chocolate almond bark, earthy coffee, cacao, floral lightly sweet vanilla, some marzipan, caramel sweetness. Flavour is sweet pale caramel malt, creamy almost candied almonds really banging mid sip, vanilla, earthy coffee and dark chocolate building later in the sip, a little roast acidity but no real bitterness. Almond aftertaste with caramel, earthy roasty cocoa/coffee vibes into the aftertaste. Medium-plus bodied, oily, very fine but quite filling carbonation, no alcohol. A bit of a quirky pastry stout given the fruity, somewhat acidic profile and lack of heavy notes to weight it down, but the combination of almond and coffee is a good one. Nice sipper.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jan 2022 at 22:11


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a large dark brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of fudge notes with some coffee, vanilla and some almond notes. Taste is also a mix of fudge with some vanilla notes and floral coffee notes with some residual sugar and almond notes. Body is full with good carbonation. Enjoyable pastry stout with a taste reminiscent of almond coffee creamer.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jan 2022 at 01:56


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Brown bottle, 750 ml, purchased at the Gatineau brewery on November 21, 2021, savoured on December 22, 2021; eye: black, opaque, no effervescence, small ring of brown head, no lacing; nose: almond, chocolate, vanilla, alcohol, slight coffee; mouth: almond, chocolate, vanilla, alcohol, slight coffee, chocolate milk, chocolate liqueur, finale in almond with presence of chocolate, full-bodied, average carbonation, mildly sweet, silky texture and lightly alcoholic; in summary: fine FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 750 ml, , achetée à la brasserie de Gatineau le 21 novembre 2021, savourée le 22 décembre 2021; œil : noire, opaque, pas d’effervescence, petit anneau de mousse brun, pas de dentelle; nez : amande, chocolat, vanille, alcool, très léger café; bouche : amande, chocolat, vanille, alcool, très léger café, lait au chocolat, liqueur de chocolat, finale en amande avec présence de chocolat, corsée, carbonatation moyenne, moyennement sucrée, texture soyeuse et légèrement alcoolique; en résumé : bien

Tried from Bottle on 23 Dec 2021 at 01:10