Sparkling Ale
Bell's Brewery in Galesburg, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Tripel Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.85
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Sparkling Ale is an American Triple, fermented with both Trappist and Belgian yeast. The result is a golden, malty ale, high in alcohol with a fruity nose, a rich ester profile and tart finish.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours hazy dark golden color with white head. Fruity ester aroma with banana, dough and spices. Lots of dough flavor. Also some sweet fruitt, banana and Belgjan sugar. Medium body with lively carbonation.
Tried
on 23 Feb 2010
at 17:29
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle, $2.30 from Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville. Pours light yellow with a small, frothy head. Smells of grass, banana, and maybe some other fruitiness. Taste is sweet grass, malts, roasted nuts, and slightly rotten fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2009
at 11:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Poured a hazy yellowish gold with a thick white head that lasted. Aroma had notes of sweet grain, cereal and wheat. Flavor was similar, very sweet notes of cereal and grain.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2009
at 15:19
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle. Pours clear golden with a white head and some bubbling carbonation. Aroma is primarily cloves and bubble gum. Flavor is also primarily of cloves, with some slight hop bitterness, and maybe a little green apple in the finish. Tastes fine, but there’s not much complexity going on here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2009
at 21:33
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
12 oz bottle. Pours a golden color with bubbles - "Sparkling" - and that’s where the fun stopped. I didn’t really enjoy the aroma, sweet watery malts. Flavor was underwhelming. Not terrible, but certainly not the beer for me. It was more like an golden ale that just didn’t *do* it for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Nov 2009
at 18:40
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Courtesy of kiefdog. Pours a very nice clear deep gold with thin off white head. The aroma is full with sweet malts, candi sugar, a bit of grape juice, a sense of banana, yeast and bubble gum. The taste is candi sugar, apples, a sense of soap, yeast and more sugar sweetness. By midway faint notes of bubble gum and banana murmur to the surface and help take this to the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Apr 2009
at 22:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle - many many thanks to Tish for hauling this beer and many others over the atlantic (I most certainly owe you beer) and thanks to kappldav123 for letting me keep this one ;-). Metallic sweet hop nose. Amber,fine bubbles, low head. Peachy and orangepeel entry, sweet, aromatic hops. Not super well balanced, but strangely still quite pleasant. Light oily mouthfeel. Grass and orangepeel retronasal.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2009
at 17:06
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Very hazy blonde golden coloured body with a super-thin white head. Aroma of very strong yeast and coriander seed. Some canned corn tates thrown in the mix with a bit of curacao and honey - but not much. Heavy-bodied; Very full taste of malt, coriander seed and canned corn to a new level in this one. Aftertaste shows a long malt flavour and some nuttiness that lasts quite a while. Overall, a decent beer - a bit strong for its own good - but showing some wierder tripel tastes. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased at Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 30-July-2005 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jan 2009
at 01:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours blonde/orange, thick white head. Aroma yeasty (farmyard), hoppy and fruity (apple). Taste, same as aroma, add some nice caramel malts and barley. Full bodied, alcohol well present.
Tried
on 12 Oct 2008
at 13:40
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle-pours a disappearing white head and yellow/gold color. Aroma is medium malt- ____, perfumy/spice-some pepper, yeast. Taste is medium malt-some caramel, floral/perfumy/spice-some pepper hops, yeast. Dry. OK effervescence. Occasional. Thanks to decaturstevo for sharing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2008
at 21:09