Charlevoix Vache Folle ? 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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Pours golden amber with eggwhite head that leaves strong lacing all the way to the bottom of the pint. Candied orange aroma dominates with some maple taffy hints. Flavours of Caramel Apple, teddy grahams, Seville orange. Rich body with medium carbonation that keeps it from being cloying. More of an Imperial ESB (if that’s possible) but delicious none the less

500ml bottle. Pours a cloudy orange/amber with a good sized yellowish head. Aroma is quite malty sweet and the hops are a strong spicy, floral, tropical quality, but maybe not as strong as one would expect from a DIPA. Mild molasses/brown sugar cookie malt sweetness, tropical and floral hop bitterness, with some earth on the finish. Body was suitable for a DIPA. Overall, an interesting experiment and a good beer, but not the best DIPA.

[4146-20111124] 500mL bottle. Mild leafy resin hops aroma. Slightly hazy, orange body with a long-lasting creamy off-white head. Bitter heavy citrus malt and toasted lemon peel flavour. Full body. The most bitter of the three we’ve tried tonight, quite good. (7/4/8/4/16) 3.9
(w/ blankboy, HogTownHarry, jerc)

Bottle [500ml] shared with HogTownHarry, jerc & mabel -- c/o j&m. Nov. 2011. Pours a slightly hazy golden-orange with a small long-lasting frothy off-white head. Aroma of spicy & catty hops along with sweet malt, lightly floral as well. Fruity, hoppy flavour along with sweet malt and light alcohol. Average bitter finish. Average to medium bodied. Pretty good, we’ve had 3 of the Vache Folle hop series in a row and they were all somewhat similar.

2011-11-24. Crisp orange body, small foamy beige head. 3+ Modest bitterness in the flavour, herbaceous green hoppy character, mild citrusy hops are muted. 6+ Leafy herbaceous hop aroma has an interesting quality to it, leafy hops, something like dried maple leaves? 6+ Smooth average plus palate. Alcohol is slightly more prominent than the previous two Vache Folle’s. Okay. Bottle from Dépanneur Peluso, Montreal 6/4/6/3/14

From a 500 ml bottle into a tulip glass. Tasted alongside with Charlevoix’s Vache Folle Double IPA Yeomans, to try and underline the differences. This one felt more complex, possibly due to the lower level of aggressiveness in the bitter taste. It allowed for more subtle sweet and floral flavors to show. Not being a big fan of IPAs, I can nonetheless say I would drink this one again anytime.

Thanks to Stephen! Pours clear amber with a small head. Nose is spicy and esters like mild Belgian yeasts. Flavor lends green grassy hops, some mints, earth, caramel malts are mild but present. Finishes bitter and interesting. I have not had any IIPA quite like this one. glad to try but not the citrusy American versions I am used to.

500mL bottle in "La Vache Folle" 4-pack from Broue Ha Ha. Pours hazy amber. Aroma is grassy hops. Taste is a strange sour/grassy-hop flavour. "?" describes it perfectly. Nice bitter finish. Not bad, but I’m not in love with it. Edit: my wife says it tastes like "Marmite", and I think she’s right.

This beer is surprising because my first impression upon tasting it was chocolate, not at all what I was expecting from a double IPA. The hop taste is there but very mild. The heavy alcohol is apparent but not overwhelming. With its chocolate taste and other subtle flavours this reminds me more of an Imperial Stout than an IPA. Nevertheless a fine beer even if not exactly true to the Double IPA style.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma with hints of grapefruit. Fruity malty hoppy bitter grapefruit flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter grapefruit finish.