Charlevoix Vache Folle Yeoman 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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On tap, Vices et Versa. Aroma is faint and soapy. Flavor is also extremely soapy, with a touch of strawberry fruit. There is just a strange plasticky component to the flavor that just doesn’t help the soap qualities already present. I drank this one colder (right after the pour) and warmer (after letting it sit for 15 minutes) and the result was the same. Unless this was just a bad tap, Charlevoix has missed on this one.

pours relatively clear golden orange with a decent off-white head, some retention. sweet bready malts, citrus, light medicine notes, ginger - slightly odd. average carbonation, medium body, decent citrusy medium long finish.

500ml bottle, amber-orange color, with a white-beige head, sweet toasted, caramelized, biscuity malty nose, with some caramel bran muffin, graham cracker, toffeeish accents, with some barley sugar, caramel, sponge toffee, light english pudding, caramel chip granola bar, french toast notes, within a weak earthy english hop aroma follows though on a medium-bodied palate with a nice yeasty, faint citrus, candied lemon, grapefruit peel, toasted, caramelized, biscuity malt sweetness character, with some barley sugar, english pudding, sponge toffee flavors, and a mild flowery earthy tobacco leaf hoppy undertone, leading towards a warming, sweet barley sugar, toffeeish, caramelized english pudding, lingering soft citrus lemon peel, leafy, grassy hop bittering finish.

Bottle recently from Rahman’s. Decent IPA plus in bitterness. Good drinkable but nothing exceptional to taste, or in aroma or appearance. Unexceptional overall.

[4145-20111124] 500mL bottle. Mild citrus resin and toasted lemons aroma. Slightly hazy, orange body with a medium-lasting creamy off-white head. Sweet toasted citrus oil flavour is fairly bitter. Medium-full body. Good bitter but all mid-tones. (7/3/7/3/15) 3.5
(w/ blankboy, HogTownHarry, jerc)

Pours clearer golden orange with a white head. The aroma has almost disappeared, light sweet hop notes are barely there. The flavors bring some light bitter and sweet hops that don’t bite at all. There is a syrupy malt base, not like a barleywine but much lighter. The body fares well, just right on the carbonation

Bottle [500ml] shared with HogTownHarry, jerc & mabel -- c/o j&m. Nov. 2011. Pours a hazy golden-orange with a small lasting frothy off-white head. Aroma of resiny and grassy hops, kind of sweet. Flavour is sweet and resiny with a long bitter finish. Average to medium bodied. Pretty good.

Bottle. Deep golden with a dense cream coloured crown that staysfor at least half the glass. Aroma is sweet, like golden syrup, with some floral grassy notes. Like all of the IIPAs in this series, the palate is sticky and sweet, with flavours of golden syrup accented by a floral-grassy-herbal hoppiness that comes across as soft and half-assed. maybe some citrus in here too. Definiately not my favourite in this series. I’m not sure if it’s the hop varietal itself or whether this was simply underhopped.

500 ml bottle pours a pale amber color with a bit of orange when held to the light and has a small white head that leaves some really nice lacing on the glass. Has a very mild aroma of floral hops. Taste is much better with a bold malty sweetness balanced nicely with a modest hoppy bitterness which is quite pleasant. Medium body and some decent carbonation. My first encounter with the Yeoman hop and it was not disappointing.

Best thing about this beer was the cow on the label. Hops were missing or maybe the rare "yeoman" hop just tastes like stale bread and grass clippings, which if it does then this was spot on. Not good really in much of any way. I poured half of it out. Not worth drinking when I have so many other good beers.

500mL bottle from Broue Ha Ha. Pours a nice orange colour, but hazy. Mild, but pleasant, aroma. Taste is... weird. Sweet malt up front followed by a herbal sort of bitterness, like arugula. Interesting, but not something I’d get again.