Les Trois Mousquetaires G.C. Imperial Weizen

Brewed by Les Trois Mousquetaires
Style: Wheat Ale
Brossard, Canada

2008 bottle thanks to bu11zeye. murky gold pour with no real head. very interesting scent of clove and spices. easy on the palate with a huge clove flavor and a slight alcohol finish.

2008 bottle at 10% thanks to bu11zeye. Pours a hazy yellowish orange with a white head. Decent lacing. Aroma of tobbaco, orange, cream, alcohol, clove and kumquats. Taste is strongly clove and spice (overpowering) with alcohol, orange and tangerines. Lightly carbonated.

8% abv version. Pours hazy sunshine yellow with some decent white head. Quite a bit of yeast character here. Banana nose and flavor with a definite clove-ish finish. Medium body with quite a bit of carbonation. Balanced finish. Just kind of a so-so beer. Worth a try though.

330 ml bottle (8%ABV) from John’s Marketplace in Portland, Oregan. Classier label than the 2008. Pours a light coppery color with a decent off-white head that didn’t last long. Light aromas of paler fruits. Medium body with somewhat fizzy carbonation. Flavor is somewhat roasted caramel (and this is a wheat), with a little heat, and some fruity bitter. Rather clean and refreshing. Tasty. Glad I had it. I’d do it again.

750ml bottle - hazy orange, fizzy beer, with a small, foamy head - very strong banana, orange, clove, honey and apple in the aroma, with the requisite phenolic character and potent wheaty tang - the flavor is quite similar, but with a much higher bitterness (and lower sweetness) than the aroma suggests - spicy, almost peppery hops couple with the more typical wheat beer flavors that the aroma lets you know are coming, lending a flowery, rustic, nearly saison-ish character to the beer - the alcohol is fairly apparent, but it never burns - strong wheat in the finish, and lingering hop bitterness - she’s a decent beer.

bouteille brune de 750ml, bouche de liège, belle couleur ambre, nez de caramel, bouche trop d’alcool, bonnes épices,

typical wheat beer pour, golden yellow, and cloudy. Nice big fluffy head. Nice aroma of bananas, cloves, caramel, and some notes of apple. Flavour is more banana, its very typical of a hefeweizen, but you can tell the 10% is there. It’s strong, but enjoyable. A nice beer, the 750ml was a little much, but a very nice sipper.

I was fortunate enough to get a bottle of the 2008 limited edition from a friend in Quebec. Poured a nice cloudy orange color with a good long lasting white head. Aroma was some Belgian undertones with a good wheat kick hiding within. Strangely enough, the first thing I though of on the aroma was fish, but not in an unpleasant way. The flavor profile on this was nearly impossible to pin down. I had hints of citrus, a little bit of clove, almost no banana/bubblegum at all, and as it warmed, the flavor I seemed to pick up most was like the smell of the smoke from a really nice Cuban cigar. This was was all over the map, but none of its flavors were unenjoyable. Very interesting and tasty beer.