Pours pale golden with white head. Some sweetness and fruit but fairly inoffensive....

$1.90 bottle from Wine Warehouse, CHO. Pours golden with an inch of white head. Smells of banana and wheat. Taste is nice sweet wheat, grass, and bitter herbs.

Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a chalice from a haul back from VA.
The appearance was a hazy semi-dark brown color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about thirty seconds. There was a light stringy sticky lacing around the glass.
The smell had a decent amount of sweet orange, clementine and pear that led into a light spice of coriander and light clove. Belgian sugary candy came into balance nicely.
The taste was sweet but carried a nice Belgian spice and allowing the orange, clementine and pear to come back nicely.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. For 7.8%, this one was a bit surprising to find that I could drink this instead of sip, no worries, enjoyable.
Overall, I say this was a good Belgian beer but to say strong, maybe I just had an old bottle.

Draft at Beer Run. Cloudy pale yellow color, bright white head. Aroma of light lemon, subtle white pepper. Taste is dusty bitter lemon.

Light florals and some booze. Tinge of wood. Pours blonde with a little head on cask at Meridian pint.

On draft at the Mad Fox Maibock festival 2014. Pours a clear gold with off white head. Light malty nose. Tropical fruit flavors. Light to medium body. Soft carbonation.

Hazy golden coloured body with a thin, light white head. Aroma of yeast, pale malt, wheat, coriander seed and curacao with a hint of sugars and oranges (full). Medium to Full-bodied; Strong yeastie flavour at first with a good maltiness, some light sweetness and a mild grassy and herbal note that finishes off nicely. Aftertaste shows some yeast and wheat with a little oranges and curacao with a bit of caramel. Overall, a nice and full-flavoured and textured belgie with good sugars and a nice complexity. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in McLean, Virgina 01-August-2012 for US$1.99 sampled at home in Upstate New York on 23-December-2012.

Pours pale gold with a small white head. Not much of any aroma, a little sweet malt; not much at all. The flavor is lightly sweet, not much to it. Next.

10oz pour at Big Hunt pours a clear bright gold with some thin white head. Nose is mild, yeasty, boozy, apple, candy sugar. Flavor is sweet, boozy, clove, orange. Full bodied, boozy finish.

Pizzeria Paradiso, Alexandria tap ($6): Pours a golden colour with a white head. Aroma is frutiiness. Taste is much the same. I did not think that this was very good. The taste was a bit off. It was kind of on the sweet side and was not as dry as I like my Belgians. Usually, I can tell if I like a Belgian by the first sip and the first sip here was not to my liking. Usually, I like Devil’s Backbone, but in this beer, I think they dropped the ball.