. Favourite Beer of the Week - special Christmas edition

Trois Pistoles is one of those Frenchy-Canadian Unibrou beers that come in the big corked bottles with the jolly high abv.

It looks like this:



and it is named after a town that looks like this:


that has a building that looks like this:


which on the beer bottle label looks like this:


and is the setting for the "Legend of the Black Horse", which I could only find in French, so I ran it through a google text translator, and it said this:

The mysterious animal appeared without anyone knowing where he came from and was used to transport the stone from the church down to the coast where they erected a new building. But it was the devil himself that one should never remove his bridle. Unfortunately, someone ignored the recommendation and the horse disappeared, work not yet completed. And that is why there is still a stone missing, as can be seen when visiting the village church in Trois Pistoles.

Crap legend. But it's a nice beer. It tastes like all the other Unibroue beers - rich and thick and sweet and malty. I drank it on Christmas Eve while I was making leek and artichoke crepes, except the cans of artichoke hearts I had bought turned out to be cans of 'heart of palm', which looks quite strange, like this:


but taste fairly similar to artichokes once you've added leeks and cheese and mushrooms and nutmeg and stuff.

And then it was Christmas.

Amen.