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Dubai Pillee
Le Trou Du Diable
- From:
- Le Trou Du Diable
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 8.76%
- Reviews:
- 12
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 01, 2018
- Added:
- Feb 20, 2011
- Wants:
- 4
- Gots:
- 16
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.99/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
600ml bottle (again, what's the deal with that?), with what appears to be my first alien invasion motif brew. And only a French brewery would depict the camel on the label smoking a cigarette.
This beer pours a hazy, medium apricot amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some splendid layered and patchy webbed lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, some dank pine resin, muddled domestic citrus rind, and more leafy, weedy, and gassed-up floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, buttery toffee, some orange and white grapefruit citrus pith, something woody that is not entirely unlike cedar, and more hefty weedy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly restrained in its lackadaisical frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, as that undercurrent of alcohol starts burbling to the surface. It finishes off-dry, the malt and frooty hops the order of the lingering moment.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough version of the elevated style, with the 18-proof booze quotient keeping to the shadows, for the most part. I presume the whole Dubai thing is a metaphor, but not for anything I can ascertain via admittedly cursory searches. Bah, no matter - I've got another glass to enjoy of this potent elixir.
Feb 05, 2018This beer pours a hazy, medium apricot amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some splendid layered and patchy webbed lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, some dank pine resin, muddled domestic citrus rind, and more leafy, weedy, and gassed-up floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, buttery toffee, some orange and white grapefruit citrus pith, something woody that is not entirely unlike cedar, and more hefty weedy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly restrained in its lackadaisical frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, as that undercurrent of alcohol starts burbling to the surface. It finishes off-dry, the malt and frooty hops the order of the lingering moment.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough version of the elevated style, with the 18-proof booze quotient keeping to the shadows, for the most part. I presume the whole Dubai thing is a metaphor, but not for anything I can ascertain via admittedly cursory searches. Bah, no matter - I've got another glass to enjoy of this potent elixir.
Rated by Abbott from Canada (QC)
3.77/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
extra 0.25 pour le jeu de mots :)
Too boozy in my opinion.
Mar 05, 2017Too boozy in my opinion.
Reviewed by TheDoctor from Canada (QC)
3.31/5 rDev -14.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.31/5 rDev -14.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Serving: Bottle
Bottled: Jan-17-2017 (Consumed Feb 14)
Clear amber with big, puffy off-white head. Slow settle with lots of ringed lacing. The aroma and flavor are both malt- and booze-heavy with doughy caramelized malt sweetness and sweet rummy liquor coming through as well. The hops are fairly herbal and between them and the sickly sweet malt and caramel booze they come through with a kind of nutri-sweet/berry fruitiness and some lemon life-saver liqueur. It is not as unthinkable as I first thought. In all, though, this seems like a diet barleywine or something to me.
It is a mess flavor-wise and most of this is due to tons of malt and sugary alcohol with strangely similar (overly complimentary/underly assertive hops). I was ready to drainpour it after my first sip but as it warmed a little and filled me with its syrupy basil-grass-molasses-liquor I was able to drink it and not shudder; I didn't savor it, though.
Meh.
Feb 15, 2017Bottled: Jan-17-2017 (Consumed Feb 14)
Clear amber with big, puffy off-white head. Slow settle with lots of ringed lacing. The aroma and flavor are both malt- and booze-heavy with doughy caramelized malt sweetness and sweet rummy liquor coming through as well. The hops are fairly herbal and between them and the sickly sweet malt and caramel booze they come through with a kind of nutri-sweet/berry fruitiness and some lemon life-saver liqueur. It is not as unthinkable as I first thought. In all, though, this seems like a diet barleywine or something to me.
It is a mess flavor-wise and most of this is due to tons of malt and sugary alcohol with strangely similar (overly complimentary/underly assertive hops). I was ready to drainpour it after my first sip but as it warmed a little and filled me with its syrupy basil-grass-molasses-liquor I was able to drink it and not shudder; I didn't savor it, though.
Meh.
Reviewed by VbolieuV from Canada (QC)
4.28/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Bottled on February 22, drank on the 4th of march!
See through golden, almost amber, in color with a huge foamy white head and lots of carbonation. Smell of fresh hops, there's aromas of grapefruits, pineapple, oranges, lemons. In the mouth it's not as hoppy as expected. You start by tasting the hops but not that much then you mostly taste the malts that have a good sweetness with bread notes. It has a nice long finish where you mostly taste the bread notes and get the bitterness. Nice carbonation in the mouth and a small alcohol burn in the throat.
Mar 05, 2016See through golden, almost amber, in color with a huge foamy white head and lots of carbonation. Smell of fresh hops, there's aromas of grapefruits, pineapple, oranges, lemons. In the mouth it's not as hoppy as expected. You start by tasting the hops but not that much then you mostly taste the malts that have a good sweetness with bread notes. It has a nice long finish where you mostly taste the bread notes and get the bitterness. Nice carbonation in the mouth and a small alcohol burn in the throat.
Rated by michaellabreche from Canada (QC)
4.05/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.05/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
really good fruity and hoppy nose. fresh with hops and tropical fruits (mango). a bit boozy.
Jul 28, 2015
Dubai Pillee from Le Trou Du Diable
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
60 ratings
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