Trappist Ale
Spencer Brewery in Spencer, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.92
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Our recipe was inspired by the traditional refectory ales known as patersbier (“fathers’ beer” in Flemish) in Belgium. These sessionable beers are brewed by the monks for their dinner table and are typically only available at the monastery. Spencer is a full-bodied, golden-hued ale with fruity accents, a dry finish and light hop bitterness. The beer is unfiltered and unpasteurized, preserving live yeast that naturally carbonates the beer in the bottle and keg and contributes to the beer flavor and aroma.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
33cl bottle. Gusher. Hazy dark orange pour with a dusty white head that gives way to a thin lacing. Visible sedimentation. Smells like a doppelbock, of yeast, bananas, spices, caramel and some dark fruit. The taste follows the same notes, wirh some added strawberry jam and pine syrup. Very well balanced sweetness and bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2016
at 08:30
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
hazy golden colour, huge, though not too stable creamy off-white head; aroma of intensive overripe (tropical) fruits, cheese, floral and earthy-wine cellar notes as well as candy sugar; taste of intensive fruitiness, some white wine notes and candy sugar as well as adequate hoppy bitterness; dry mouthfeel; obviously not the best Belgian ale, but still extremely good feeling to drink it!
Tried
from Can
on 25 Mar 2016
at 14:22
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Now I have an interesting beer, american trappist. Interesting was also the beginning, the beer poured to the table, luckily I had a glass in near and not a big damage happened. Beautiful, a dark orange colour, murky, a head is big and blond. Aroma has fruitness, apricot, mandarin, some fruit candies, also aromatic flowers, some biscuits. Promising. Taste has strong flowers, mandarin, apricot, some sweetness, drying bitterness. Medium bodied, fresh, balanced carbonation. Succesfully beer with a unique touch that’s nice element for a trappist.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Mar 2016
at 05:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle bought in Liberty Wine Merchants. Very carbonated. Aroma and taste are sweet-sour, malt, yeast, flowers, notes of mead. Hoppy bitterness aftertaste. Just a good regular abbey Belgian blonde, not more. Overrated IMHO.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2016
at 20:28
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Shared cork and caged 0.75 litre bottle on 17th Feb 2016 at a Shrewsbury Bottle Exchange Group meeting. Cheers Mat for bringing this offering. Slight haze to the old golden coloured pour, on top a white crown. Yeasty nose, very Belgian in my opinion, floral and spicy in both the aroma and flavour. Liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2016
at 16:47
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Flaska från SB. Skummar kraftigt ur flaskan, bärnstensfärgad med ett stort skum som lägger sig relativt snabbt. Doft av torkad frukt, honung, jäst, hö och lite kryddor. Söt smakbild men relativt lägg kropp och en lätt örtig beska gör att den inte blir så tung eller kvalmig. Den skulle nog kunna kallas tunn men jag tycker det funkar bra då smakerna är väl tilltagna. Kryddig beska möter söt fruktighet. Söta äpplen, aprikos, torkade päron, honung. Trevlig. Man känner släktskapet med trappisterna i Belgien. Liknar en Rochefort 6 om man skall nämna någon.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2016
at 08:22