Les Trois Mousquetaires G.C. Doppelbock

Brewed by Les Trois Mousquetaires
Style: Doppelbock
Brossard, Canada

Bottled at PBF. Dark brown, brief head. Dep caramelly lingonberry aroma. Sweet and full bodied. Highly warming with mssive amounts of caramel and notes o lingonerry jam. Drier salty finish with soy sauce and saké. A megapotent doppelbock.

Bottled. Ambery brownish ruby colour with small beige head. Aroma is caramel, wood and raisins along with some roasted and herbal notes. Flavour is mild wood, some caramel malts as well as some sweetish berryish notes. Mild burnt notes as well.

Bottle at Sune. Clear red brown coloured with a medium sized beige ehad. Sweet aroma of caramel, dark chocolate and rye bread. Sweet flavour of dried fruits, dark chocolate and rye bread. Sweet finish of chocolate.

(750ml bottle, thanks kmweaver) Medium beige head atop clear mahogany body. Aroma is moderately sweet, chocolate, some caramel, plum, smoke. Taste is moderately sweet, plum, chocolate, some vinous. Medium-full body, low carbonation.

Bottled vintage 2009 (PBF). Dark nut brown color, small beige head. Dark sugar, green beans, plum and something like milk chocolate in the nose. Crisp, quite alcoholic. Lots of caramel, toasted malts, very sweet for being doppelbock. Long toasted caramelly and a bit alcoholic aftertaste.

( 750ml bottle, 2009 vintage ) Pours a deep mahogany body with a medium beige head. Aroma of wood, caramel, roasted grain, cocoa, raisins, and apple skins. Flavor of smoke, plum, caramel malt, raisins, cocoa, nuts, and wood.

@Jimmacks pre BeerWars Gathering-750ml bottle–pours a disappearing light tan head and deep red color. Aroma is perfumy, secondary sweet medium malt. Taste is dark fruit-plum, cherry, perfumy, secondary sweet medium malt, interesting. Thanks to dmac.

Dark brown with orange suggestions. Large, uniform, compact initial head slowly gives way. Strong and just very malty nose. I think this contained something like 10 different cereals and it’s a malt medley indeed. At this young age, the alcohol gives a warming kick, but it does not appear too strong thanks to a friendly accompanying fruitiness that ranges from figs to curranty cabernet grape. Toastiness might be its malts’ founding father, but its tentacular proliferation ventured into as various field as almond skin, chocolate, maple. If it apparently attenuated a bit more than it was intended to, the body remains dense and filling, despite the active and cleansing carbonation. Authentic and balancing earthy/leafy noble hops in suitable proportions. It is tough to say what would make it more pleasant as it is both clean and rich. Still, I could mention that my very very favourite doppelbocks tended to show a complexity that is even greater and with certainly fewer ingredients. Perhaps time has something to do with it. A velvety nature was also a common factor to them whereas here, the carbonation, albeit never agressive, feels a bit more detached. Also, perhaps, my very favourite doppelbocks tended to have an immediate identity, putting your nose in the glass, you were hinted at which beer you’re drinking, there was a perfume associated to the malt labyrinth and layered toastiness. This is not yet here. So what do we have then? Another exquisite, clean, solid staple, offered at a most reasonable price - an additional argument at this brewery’s tremendous progress. Confidence is now clearly established.