Quebec: Porter Baltique, Les Trois Mousquetaires

Published June 5, 2010 at 7:21 p.m.

This must be the best value in Baltic porters on the planet at $7.99 a 750 ml at 10%. Dated and "grand reserve", too. I don't know what "grand reserve" means in this particular case as I picked it up at Marche Omni and it didn't come out of a deep dank cavern but...

The beer pours inky brown with a deep dark mocha head. The aroma is licorice with pumpernickel and even a sort of candy thing. In my mouth there are layers of dark things accentuated by fine light carbonation - dates, coffee grounds, dark cocoa, milk chocolate, stone-esque minerally things, children's chocolate biscuits - all with a smooth sweet background that makes me question whether this from the empire of Baltic porter or the empire of milk stout. Does it matter? No. I like it a lot but have a look - it earns abiding BAer love.

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