Matilda
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Rotating|
Score
7.11
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Wild in character, a complex ale with dried fruit and clove aromas, and a satisfying dry finish. Inspired by great Trappist ales, our complex Belgian Style Pale Ale is fermented with the wild yeast Brettanomyces. Matilda pours a golden sunrise color with dried fruit and clove aromas, a spicy yeast flavor, and a satisfying dry finish.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
355ml bottle. Cloudy, orangey, dark golden to amber colour with average, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Minimally bretty, funky yeasty, minimally bready, caramel malty and fruity aroma, hints of honey, gingerbread, honeydew melon, a touch of gooseberry. Taste is moderately dry, slightly grassy hoppy, minimally bready malty, hints of honeydew melon, a touch of gingerbread and clove; slightly creamy texture, minimally sweet-ish, sticky palate. Quite manifold and complex, somehow a bit to clean and engineer’d.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2017
at 14:58
5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2017
at 14:59
7/10
Taki jakby delikatniejszy orval, ciut dziki skorzanie choc nie powinien teoretycznie, mocno przyprawowy, dosc owocowy, pijalny, bdb
Tried
at
Powiśle
on 24 May 2017
at 18:42
7.5/10
Certainly good, but considering how cheap some of the real Belgian ales are locally, better off going that route
Tried
on 26 Feb 2017
at 20:50
8/10
Hint of Belgian yeast, hint of pale ale hops, hint of bretta. Summed up to a smooth unique beer.
Tried
on 06 Feb 2017
at 19:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Orange golden. Lots of fruit and some yeast notes. Medium bodied. Tangy fruit finish. Very nice.
Tried
on 29 Dec 2016
at 21:52
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Golden colour, white head. Malty aroma, yeast, reminding of Leffe. Sweet flavour, malts, banana. Sweet finish, malts, yeast and banana. Not my cup of tea.
(from 66cL bottle @ Leuven Innovation, Leuven 2015. Thanks for sharing all the beers, RateBeer crew!)
(from 66cL bottle @ Leuven Innovation, Leuven 2015. Thanks for sharing all the beers, RateBeer crew!)
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2016
at 14:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sample from bottle in front of ’Bierkoning’ during Carnivale Brettanomyces 2016 Amber/orange with a white head. Aroma of yeast, sweet, orange. peach. Taste medium sweetness, malty, orange, peach, yeast, lo carbonation, medium body,
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2016
at 14:12
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
At Bierkoning during Carnivale Brettanomyces. Classic Belgian-style ale by Goose Island, with very thick and dense, towering high, creamy, egg-white head and hazy orange blonde robe. Aroma of wet leather, fermenting hay, peach, strawberry, stewed pear, bitter honey, old dry sherry. Fruity sweetish, mildly estery onset, pear, mango and slight banana, some almost Brett-like ’funkiness’, supple malt sweetness, very earthy and yeasty ending with mild herbal and leafy hop bitterishness. If this is not a (new generation) saison, then I do not know what is...
Tried
on 26 Jun 2016
at 12:27