Impériale Weizen Grande Cuvée
Les Trois Mousquetaires

Impériale Weizen Grande CuvéeImpériale Weizen Grande Cuvée
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From:
Les Trois Mousquetaires
 
Quebec, Canada
Style:
American Pale Wheat Beer
ABV:
10%
Score:
88
Avg:
3.91 | pDev: 11%
Reviews:
41
Ratings:
53
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Feb 11, 2019
Added:
Sep 04, 2009
Wants:
  8
Gots:
  1
ABV varies year to year.
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Ratings by kiki3drt292:
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Reviewed by kiki3drt292 from California

2.69/5  rDev -31.2%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
2009 vintage 750 ml poured into pint glass

A- Cloudy, looks a lot like apple cider. Dark copper color. About a 1" head with lots of chunky sediment floating around.

S- Wet vegetables. This strange aroma juxtaposes the other sweet and matly smells coming from the beer.

T- VERY strange, and the taste is quite similar to the smell. The vegetables come out in a big way, ending with a musty taste like if you licked the basement floor. The sweetness from the malts is what keeps this beer together. That, and the slight bitterness from hops at the end.

M- A thicker mouthfeel than expected. A bit grainy, as well.

O- Meh. This is a very strange brew that I would recommend only for the more adventurous palettes. Thick taste without thick flavor to back it all up (last sentence from my notes, I guess it is what I thought when drinking the beer).
Jul 09, 2012
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Oct 22, 2013
 
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Rated: 4 by DaPan from Canada (ON)

Feb 15, 2013
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Reviewed by falloutsnow from Illinois

3.15/5  rDev -19.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
From: Binny's, Arlington Heights, IL
Date: 2009 edition
Glass: Tulip

A very strong wheat ale that bears no relation to the "American Wheat Ale" style: syrupy malt, caramel, and ethanol flavors dominate. Further, while the label seems to suggest usage of a German yeast strain (claiming tastes of vanilla, clove, and banana), I don't notice any of these flavors. This is probably closest to a wheat wine, a bottle best shared among many friends, and generally rather average in my opinion.

A slightly hard pour produces a head of 1.5cm, dirty white in color, which has fairly average retention, lasting a minute or so. The receding foam leaves a modest amount of lacing along the sides of the glass. Body is dark copper colored, with light bringing out burnt orange, red, and brown hues. Body has a strong opacity, but is not fully opaque. Carbonation is visible, though a bit sluggish.

Aroma is fairly pleasant for the style, with notes of heavy caramel, mild toasted nuts, and noticeable, but not overpowering ethanol. Slightly oxidized by this age as well, as could be expected.

Tasting opens with plum, Bosc pear, dates, and grape-like fruity esters, all tangled up with heavy caramel sweetness and some obvious ethanol. Mid-palate finds continued caramel, heavy ethanol, a bit of bourbon character. Back of palate continues with heavy, syrupy malts; caramel; and very noticeable ethanol. Aftertaste is of syrupy malt sugars, caramelized sugar, and heavy ethanol.

Beer is heavy to medium-heavy in body, with moderate levels of carbonation. Very rich, a definite sipper. The resulting mouthfeel is smooth across the palate, with fairly high ethanol levels. The high ethanol content and resulting burn across the tongue, throat, and heat in the nostrils makes it difficult to want to drink more than half a glass of this.
Nov 05, 2012
 
Rated: 4.5 by ecmoon3 from South Carolina

Sep 19, 2012
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Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania

3.39/5  rDev -13.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
A - Pours a red amber color with very thin lacing ring, no head from the start, no carbonation, and very viscous as it sticks to the glass like clear syrup. Appearance is thick.

S - Sweet and heavy caramel/toffee candy sugar, alcohol, and bready malt, slightly medicinal. The look or aroma does not resemble a wheat beer, smells more like a Doppelbock.

T - Medicinal, cloying sweetness with pronounced alcohol warming in the back of the throat that lingers for many minutes. Sweet caramel toffee malt that starts out on the cloying side until midway through when some faint lemon citrus bitterness surfaces as a poor attempt to keep the cloying sweet malt barely under control. There's some light oak notes buried in there as well as a little bit of clove spice at the very, very end.

M - Thick bodied, slick, viscous, and velvet as it glides over the tongue.

O - A cloying, boozy mess. Then again, this bottle is three years old, I'm looking forward to locating a 2012 and revisiting my review. If you still find a 2009 on the shelf, maybe best to pass it up.
Sep 16, 2012
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Reviewed by jrenihan from Canada (ON)

3.63/5  rDev -7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Summer 2011 bottle. 8%. Probably past its prime, but I'd rather try it than not!

Light golden in colour with a large white head. Good retention.

Wheat is clearly present in the nose, to no surprise. Some breadiness and some floral and grassy hop scents. Lemon. A bit of caramel.

Taste is pretty faithful to the nose. Wheat, grassy hops, lemon, caramel, bread. Some banana but not a lot. Alcohol is noticeable. Somewhat unusual. I wouldn't call this an APWA, though neither is it a traditional weizenbock. Not bad but not a real winner, in my view.

Pretty highly carbonated, medium bodied, alcohol noticeable.

Overall, pretty good but not great. I expect that it would be better if I had managed to get a fresher bottle. It's not bad but could use some work. I imagine the 10% version must have been far too boozy, because even the 8% comes across quite strongly.
May 12, 2012
 
Rated: 4.5 by irishkyle21 from Canada (ON)

Feb 27, 2012
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Reviewed by crusian from Oregon

3.33/5  rDev -14.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Always fun to review regional beers...
pour is golden a shit.. honesty. I expected this to be a nice bottle conditioned beer, and it is the clearest goldenest color I have seen in a beer.
nose is full of hay and grass...
taste is exactly what I would expect from the nose... hay... boring hay. booze comes through, to break up the boring... but it is ultimately boring.... this is just an average imperial whit... though I can think of any other imperial whit... so I guess this is great?
Jan 29, 2012
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Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)

3.7/5  rDev -5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Bottle: Poured a bright golden color ale with a big foamy white head with good retention. Aroma of dry wheat is pretty intense and interesting. Taste is also dominated by wheat with a dry finish. Not a lot of banana and cloves notes are discernable thought. Body is slightly above average with some adequate carbonation and no alcohol is discernable. Overall, this is way more interesting then the brewery usual offering but still not as complex as expected.
Jan 11, 2012
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Reviewed by TheSevenDuffs from Canada (ON)

3.5/5  rDev -10.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Grand Reserve 2011. Only 8% ABV as per the label.
Poured in to Duvel tulip.

A - Pale straw yellow with a small amount of white head that quickly dissipated.

S - Belgian yeast up front with almost a slight funky aroma to it. Bready malts and a touch of sweet caramel with a light floral hop presence.

T - A crisp bitterness up front from the hops. Belgian yeast, cloves, light banana & citrus flavours. The malts provide some semi-sweet bready flavours. The alcohol is not well masked at all here, which seems to be a theme in LTM beers.

M - Medium body; light to moderate carbonation.
Nov 12, 2011
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Reviewed by spinrsx from Canada (ON)

4/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
750ml Bottle

Appearance – Hazy yellow/amber colour with a large size fizzy off-white coloured head. There is a low amount of carbonation showing and there is some fairly good lacing. The head lasted for around 5 minutes before it was gone.

Smell - Wheat/grains, lemons, bananas, spices

Taste & Mouth - The beer has an average amount of carbonation. I can taste wheat mixed with lemons, bananas, and a bit of caramel sweetness. There are also some notes of cloves and/or coriander. It finishes with a sweet lemon/banana aftertaste.

Overall – I was expecting this one to be overly sweet, but it was actually quite drinkable. Another solid beer from this brewer that is well worth the 6.99 price tag. I'd buy it again.
Oct 17, 2011
Impériale Weizen Grande Cuvée from Les Trois Mousquetaires
Beer rating: 88 out of 100 with 53 ratings