Unibroue Trois Pistoles

Brewed by Unibroue (Sapporo)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Chambly, Canada

750ml bottle. Pours a dark copper with a tan head that diminishes quickly but doesn’t disappear altogether. The nose is beguiling: coffee, malt, molasses, plums, shiraz. Smooth and warming in the mouth, it has flavours of chocolate, sultanas, dates, port, christmas pudding. The alcohol is well hidden - hard to believe it has such a high abv. The Unibroue beers are consistantly impressive, especially their dark ales, and this is one of my favourites. Oh, and like the other Unibroues, great label.

Aroma of clover, ripe banana and tart cherries. Appearance is dark brown with a creamy head. Flavor was similar to the nose. Palate was lively and bubbly. I enjoyed this one.

Beautiful chocolate colored beer, smells to me like cocoa and maybe some coffee.. and something sweet i can’t put my finger on. Molasses? Tastes like malt.. And molasses. Tan colored head, disappears quickly, little trace. Extremely tasty with a 9% ABV that tastes like much less... Top quality, top marks... great beer.

Nice rich chocolate brown with a this tan head. Alcohol hidden in fruity tones. Liquid is thick and reminds me of a wine.Almost as good as the Chimay blue.

750 ml bottle in tulip. Dark brown color with nice large off white head and semi-hazy. he aroma is fantastic with a huge burst of fruit and floral aromas and very intense, a lot of dried apricots and raisins. The beer is very sweet with a good amount of yeasty flavors that bring out the dried apricot and grapes (almost a similar sweetness as a mead). The finish was a long sweet melting blueberry. Overall a very interesting and delicious beer, but hard to drink a lot of it due to the sweetness.

Gusher. Dark copper pour, lots of yeast floating round. Good head, nice persistence. Would have liked some lacing though. Aroma is lovely, with the Unibroue yeast, plums, prunes, blackberries, candi sugar, caramel, nougat, red wine and sweet sherry. Very perfumy/rose-like. Taste shows more of that classic yeast, lots of residual sweetness (candi sugar, I guess). Esters are reminiscent of lighter fruit than the aroma, namely pear and white grapes (more akin to a tripel!). Some alcohol, but reasonably well masked. Not as full a body as you’d expect, but it works well the the lighter flavours. Not too much carbonation (unlike a lot of the Unibroue beers). Very slight warming on the palate. Quite enjoyable. This seems to have a less dominant yeast character (than the other Unibroue beers), I’m pretty sure that’s why I’ve rated it so much higher.

deep black, hint of red at edges. Nose; tangy citrus, nutmeg, cloves, eucalyptus, sweet. Mouth; herbal, a little too sweet, good, but not amazing.

Draft @ the yadhouse in Rancho Cucamonga. Much darker than I was expecting, nose is delicious stone fruit, raisins and figs, taste is more of the same, very balanced sweetness/bite/spicy/alcohol. The alcohol, while clearly present, is well blended into the flavors. Really nice.