Brasserie du Bas-Canada Pif Paf

Pif Paf

 

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

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Special
Score
7.47
ABV: 11.9% IBU: - Ticks: 5
Pif Paf, un Imperial Stout affiné 20 mois en barrique de bourbon Heaven Hill. Nous avons ensuite de la banane thaï avec de la noix de macadam, du cacao de la noix de coco et une touche de vanille de l'Ouganda. Le résultat est une bière à la texture bien épaisse et riche. L'aromatique est sur la banane mure, des notes de bonbons à la noix de coco avec une touche de bourbon et de chocolat. Vous y trouverez aussi des saveurs de bananes flambées, de noix et une finale intense sur des notes de bourbon.

Aged more than 20 months in Heaven Hill bourbon barrels, with Thai banana, coconut, macadamia nuts, cacao, and vanilla from Uganda.
 

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7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

750ml (thx, Alex G.!)@ 🏡 with Alex.
Aroma: very weird, smells like it has cinnamon or something, while it hasn't. Sweet. Bold.
Taste: very sweet, the spicy character, bold, a lot of liquorice. Not sure where are all of the mentioned ingredients. Maybe the mix of bananas and coconut are making this weird combo? Feels like I am drinking Fremont Rusty Nail 😖
Overall: did not really enjoyed it, unfortunately. One of the worst Bas Canada BA beers I've ever had, considering the ingredients list.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jun 2025 at 06:56


9.1
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a dark brown foamy head with some retention and some lacing notes. Aroma of chocolate notes with some bourbon notes and light vanilla with light banana and residual sugar notes. Taste is also a mix of chocolate notes with some vanilla notes with some bourbon and vanilla notes, some faint banana notes and a sweet finale. Body is full with an oily texture and good carbonation with no real discernible alcohol notes. Nice mix of bourbon stout with some banana/vanilla for a great mix of flavours and overall good balance.

Tried from Bottle on 19 May 2025 at 19:49


8.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Almost black, dark brown without any highlights, a dark mocha-coloured head, not lasting too long, and a tad liquid stickiness, but not much lace. Roasted malt aromas with some Bourbon notes, some nice cacao, some grassy peels, hints of coconut and nuttiness. Oily, slick mouthfeel with some nice warming alcohol that lingers, decent building dryness. Lots going on in the taste with much found in the nose. Roasted barley base giving a touch of molasses, with the Bourbon, chocolate, nuttiness and dark fruitiness. Quite a pif-paf in the face cells-ci :P

Tried on 05 Oct 2024 at 03:01


8

A deep dark stout with no head. In aroma, sweet fruity chocolate malt with dark fruits, vanilla, licorice, alcohol warmth, light coconut, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity chocolate malt with dark fruits, vanilla, nutella, alcohol warmth, a bit of Pinot de Charente, very nice. On tap at Hautes Plaines.

Tried from Draft on 13 Sep 2024 at 16:30


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Brown bottle, 750 ml, bought at Brasserie du Canada - Hautes-Plaines on May 19, 2024, savoured on June 13, 2024; eye: black, thick, opaque, no effervescence, no head, a few alcohol beads; nose: banana, bourbon, molasses biscuits; mouth: banana, bourbon, molasses biscuits, alcohol, thick, light alcohol warmth, finale in banana with light presence of bourbon, full-bodied, very sweet, syrupy texture; in summary: fine FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 750 ml, achetée à Brasserie du Canada - Hautes-Plaines le 19 mai 2024, savourée le 13 juin 2024; œil : noire, épaisse, opaque, pas d’effervescence, pas de mousse, quelques perles d’alcool; nez : banane, bourbon, biscuits à la mélasse; bouche : banane, bourbon, biscuits à la mélasse, alcool, épaisse, léger chaleur d’alcool, finale en banane avec légère présence de bourbon, corsée, très sucrée, texture sirupeuse; en résumé : bien

Tried from Bottle on 16 Jun 2024 at 21:34