Charlevoix Vache Folle Columbus Double IPA

Brewed by Microbrasserie Charlevoix / Le Saint Pub
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Baie-St-Paul, Canada

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Draught. Bright copper with a creamy white head. The aroma is mild and not really very IIPA-like. Some sweet fruits like pear and peaches are evident in almost like a BSA-type concoction. The flavour is less confusing and is more in line with the advertised style. Quite doughy and sweet with some rich and chewy hop and fruit flavours.
Vices & Versa, Montreal. 2007.09.14

pours slightly hazy golden-orange with a nice frothy light beige-orange head, good retention. bready and caramel malts, big citrus, light piney notes, some herbalness and resin. average carbonation - fizzy, medium body, oily, nice grapefruity finish.

Red/auburn colour, clearly filtered, lots of carbonation. aromas of pine cones, citrus, big hoppy aroma, little malt aroma. flavours are big, lots of CO2 on the palate, hoppy bitter notes and a hint of sweet caramel. very tasty brew.

Bottle. Moderate aromas of roasted and caramel for the malt, pine and grapefruit for the hops, light soap for the yeast, with hints of pepper and light dried fruits. Head is large, fizzy turning dense and rocky, off-white with excellent lacing and is fully lasting. Color is sparkling clear medium amber. Flavor starts moderately to heavily sweet and lightly acidic, then is lightly sweet and has a long moderately bitter finish. Palate is medium, watery, with a lively carbonation and a lightly alcoholic finish. A slightly imbalanced DIPA, a little overly sweet, but a very nice beer nonetheless.

500ml bottle. Pours dark copper, crystal clear with a big off-white head that sticks to the glass like crazy. Nose full of citrus and pine with a nice caramel base and a weird litter box edge. Leans a a little sweet on the palate with some good citrus and spruce presence but it’s not as punchy as I’d like. Finishes with a little bitterness that lasts a reasonable time.

Beau liquide blonde-anmbré limpide surmonté d’une volumineuse mousse qui ceinture le verre. Nez fruité, floral, houblonné et subtilement sucré par des effluves de miel de trèfle. Goût bucolique, champêtre, légèrement amer, peu pour une double IPA, avec des saveurs sucrées et une consistance liquoreuse. Toujours agréable les bières de cette série. (179-050312)

[4144-20111124] 500mL bottle. Butter pecan aroma. Hazy, dark orange body with a long-lasting creamy off-white head. Sweet buttery toasted grains flavour is big but not too bold. Full body. Expecting more citrus but nice. (7/4-/7/4/16) 3.8
(w/ blankboy, HogTownHarry, jerc)

Bottle [500ml] shared with HogTownHarry, jerc & mabel -- c/o j&m. Nov. 2011. Pours a cloudy orange-copper with a small diminishing frothy off-white head. Aroma of tropical fruit, cattiness and hemp along with caramel malt, some alcohol and citrus. Flavour of sweet caramel malt, citrus hops, tropical fruit and light spices (mainly pepper). Decent bitter finish. Medium bodied. Pretty good but I thought it would be better.

UPDATED: FEB 6, 2012 500 mL bottle; bottled on 11/24/2011. Pours amber orange with a huge, white head. Nose is very sweet and syrupy: orange skittles, orange marmalade, lemon, grapefruit, apricot, maraschino cherries, spice, and brown sugar. Really quite delicious. Taste-wise we have caramel malts, orange, peach, apricot, lemon peel, and grapefruit. Mouth feel is medium with good carbonation. The finish is short and bitter leaving grapefruit and orange. A very tasty brew. Good balance between the bitter hops and sweet malt. However, after the initial blast of flavour it doesn’t really develop and the finish is rather short.

On tap at Le Saint-Graal, amber-orangeish color, with a white head, mild sweet candied orange, tangerine peel, peach esters, from the soft floral herbal minty, leafy, piney colombus hop used, giving a nice citrus bouquet in the nose, with some soft toasted, caramelized, biscuity malt, toffee notes, with a faint candied marmalade, bronw sugar, sweetness in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a warmth good yeasty, flowery, fruity candied orange, tangerine, lemon peel, apricot, marmalade, leafy, grassy, piney, minty hop character, with a light Grand Marnier liquorish, honeyed toasted, caramelized, biscuity malty backbone, with some faint toffee, sugar pie crust, panettone sweet bread loaf unertones, leading towards a warming, fruity candied orange, peach, tangerine, faint lingering leafy, grassy, piney hop bitterness finish.

Bottle at TimE’s. About a year old. Glowing copper with lace. Malty nose, with caramel, grassy English hops, chocolate, fruity. Nice bitterness, tangy flavor, very fruity, some of it tropical, with pepper. Nice but past its prime.