Bottle. Golden color. Peach and coreander in the aroma. Pineapple. Very fruity flavor (pineapple, peach. lemon) with coreander. Somewhat alcoholic. Big, tart and tasty. Would be more enjoyable with less coreander.

Bottle. Pours clear golden with quickly disappearing white head. Clear aroma of yeast and malt, with notes of fruit and herbs and mild touches of hops. Sweetish flavour of malt and fruit, with notes of yeast and touches of hops and coriander. Sweetish, malty and estery aftertaste with coriander and acidic notes. Warming alcohol presence. Good.

Bottle, 10.0%. OK refreshing aroma. Almost clear golden colour. Very fizzy and unstable white head. The flavour is citric and malty. Has a little spicy note and a lemony aftertaste. 737317

Flaska från SB(?), vintage 2014. Klar ljusguldig med vit krona. Ganska typiska toner för en golden Belgian strong. Snäll jästighet, hög (ljus) maltsötma och så ett litet instick från koriandern vilket jag mest plockar upp som en snäll kryddighet/örtighet. Helt ok, men kanske inte så intressant.

AleSmith’s take at a ‘Belgian strong ale’ – a style moniker I prefer to avoid as all Belgian strong ales can essentially be reduced to the dubbel-tripel-quadrupel template, but anyway. Bottle from Geers in Oostakker near Ghent. Very unstable head, an even-bubbled, egg-white mousse that dissipates almost immediately after pouring, like the head on a glass of champagne; near-clear, deep and warm ‘old gold’ robe with pale peachy hue and a diffuse, thin yeast suspension throughout, more equally misty with sediment and showing fine strings of sparkling here and there. Aroma of cooked apples, (weirdly) homemade lemonade, pear drops, pineapple, banana, soapy coriander, lemon zest, orange peel, calvados, meringue, honey, white bread, old ‘herbes de Provençe”, minerals, gin. Sweet onset, again homemade lemonade and sugared lemon juice, fried apples, banana and ripe pineapple, lively carbonation with minerally effects but still smooth, slick mouthfeel, very slick even, a tad oily and a bit soapy; slender cereally and white-bready malt sweet body with lingering residual honeyish sugar sweetness, very thin caramelly touch, clear soapy coriander seed spiciness in the finish paired with a floral, very softly spicy hoppiness and followed by outspoken, yet not too harsh, warming calvados-like alcohol. Sweetness lingers. Credibly Belgian in overall profile – but American in its cleanness and smoothness, so in all, recognizably not made in Belgian as well; apple and pineapple esteriness are also notably stronger here than would usually be the case in a Belgian ‘strong blonde’ (and I had a whole lot of those). Belgian ales are not AleSmith’s forte, it seems – perhaps they better stick to the things they do to near-perfection, like stouts and IPAs, and leave ‘regular’ Belgian style beers to e.g. Allagash, if we must stay in America. As such: too sweet, too straightforward and a bit too boozy for me, but interesting and enjoyable nonetheless.

11.2 fl oz bottle. Pours orange. Banana, bubblegum, cloves, cereal, honey. Lively carbonation. Tasty.

In tap vintage 2017 at Mikkeller Warsaw. Clean pale amber pour with an off-white lacing. Nose: oxidation, butterscotch, creme brûlé. Mouth: sweet canditi, orange cookies, soft spiciness, panettone.

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