Another Canadian beer, the Trois Pistoles comes from Chambly, Quebec. It claims to be a "very dark" ale, but no beer drinker would mistake the smell of a barley wine. It smells exactly like Manischewiz wine.
If you're thinking that is no way for a beer to smell, I couldn't agree with you more. It smells like a hangover. And the unpleasantness continues as you bring this strange elixir to your lips. It starts sweet, but kind of like how medicine is sweet so children won't spit it out instantaneously. Logically, this is followed by a very recognizable taste: cough syrup. Yum. Very liquorice.
The aftertaste is like when you finish a whiskey on the rocks, but the server is really slow on noticing, so in desperation you drink the whiskey-flavored melted ice water. Delectable.
Altogether, this beer tastes foul from start to finish. Though I don't like barley wines, so if you do, this might be right up your alley, or cleft, or.. whatever. The one good side to this beer is that it gets you buzzin' after only 12 oz. So if you want to get drunk, this might be one to choke down later on in the night.
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