Los Tabarnacos - Mangue Returns With Coconut Behind the Mango

A beer Bas-Canada flatly calls a classic comes back tomorrow. Mango puree and coconut sit on top of Citra and Mosaic in a 6.5 percent Milkshake IPA the Gatineau brewery says its customers keep waiting for.

Style: Milkshake IPA
Release Date: 2026-09-25
ABV: 6.5%
Brasserie du Bas-Canada (Gatineau, QC)

"A classic is a classic." Brasserie du Bas-Canada is not building a case for this one so much as restating a settled fact. Los Tabarnacos - Mangue returns to the Gatineau brewery's lineup tomorrow, and the brewery describes it as very popular and much awaited.

The beer is a Milkshake IPA, 6.5 percent ABV, in 473 ml cans with a limit of 24 per person. Citra and Mosaic carry the hop side. Mango puree and coconut go in on top of them. Bas-Canada says the combination of the hops, the mango and the coconut is what gives the beer its particularly tropical character.

Those two hops are a deliberate foundation for fruit rather than a counterweight to it. Citra is defined by tropical and citrus notes, Mosaic by a broader range that takes in stone fruit and berry, and both are doing work that points the same direction as a mango puree. The coconut is the ingredient pulling against type. It brings a richer, rounder note that reads as texture as much as flavor, which is the register a milkshake IPA is aiming for in the first place. Bas-Canada has used coconut to similar effect elsewhere in its catalogue, including the Sabro-hopped Bank Hotel.

The name carries a local joke. Tabarnac is a well-known Quebecois expletive, and the brewery has given it a mock-Spanish plural to title a tropical series - branding it uses openly and has returned to across multiple fruit editions.

Cans go on sale tomorrow, following the three-beer release that opened online at 11 a.m. today at bascanada.beer from the brewery's Hautes-Plaines site. Orders can be picked up within the week, and both tasting rooms are open.

Editor’s Take

Los Tabarnacos is a joke told in Quebecois, and it is a good one. Tabarnac is the province's most reliable swear, borrowed from the furniture of a church and deployed with feeling in traffic. Give it a Spanish plural and a beach hat and you have a name that sounds like a touring band and lands like something your uncle says when the barbecue tips over. That the brewery has kept it going long enough to have a mango edition says the joke held up.

The coconut is the part worth pausing on. Mango in a milkshake IPA is the expected move, bright and obvious and already halfway to what Citra is doing anyway. Coconut is the one adding weight rather than more fruit, and it is what keeps a beer like this from reading as a mango drink that happens to be alcoholic. Somebody worked out years ago that this one needed the heavier note underneath, and Bas-Canada has evidently seen no reason to relitigate it.

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