Cuvée 950
Brouwerij Affligem in Opwijk, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.67
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Brewed for the 950th Anniversary of the abbey, 950 Cuvee is a blonde ale "quadruple hopped" for added spicy/grassiness with a dry, slightly bitter finish.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33 cL bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a huge white head. Aroma is toasted malty, light perfumed and phenolic. Toasted malty and phenolic. Dry and malty finish. Ends bitter and lingering toasted malty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jan 2013
at 11:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750 c&c from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours brass with a 4 finger creamy/frothy white head. Which proceeded to ring lace decently with time. Aroma has lots of floral, some herb/spice, and banana ester. Amazing, considering all that foam. So floral it brought my childhood bubblebath powder to mind. Med + body. Flavor is floral, yeast/spice, and banana ester, tho not quite so much as the aroma suggested. It pretends to be sweet, but there’s enough hop in it to render it "almost dry" and pleasingly bitter. That floral really kicks in again in the finish. This is a delight to drink.
Tried
on 09 Nov 2012
at 18:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle: deep golden, big loose rocky foam, that slowly collapses, fruity-orangey nose with a shy hoppy bitterness underneath; moderate bitter-sweet flavour, medium to full bodied; shorter fruity bitter-sweet finish, supported by some lonely hops.O.K., the usual Belgian fizz...
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2012
at 22:53
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours gold into a tulip. White head with excellent retention recedes leaving scant sheets. Sweet biscuit and caramel aromas. Dry with sweet caramel and pear upfront turning slightly sour in the lasting nutty hay finish.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Oct 2012
at 14:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(bottle, 33cl) Hazy, golden colour with a big and slightly off-white foamy head. Slightly sugary cara-malty aroma with fruity notes of apricots, bubblegum and a shy bready touch. Moderately sweet flavour, medium bodied with a prickly carbonation. Mildly bready cara-malty taste with fruity accents; dry-ish finish by Belgian standards with mildly spicy notes and a subtle note of sourness. Easy-going Belgian Ale. 28.VIII.12
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2012
at 14:58
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured into a chalice. Nice golden color with fluffy head. Lots of carbonation keeps the head active, and no lacing on the glass.. Faint aroma, but a little bit of bitterness on the palate.Taste is of hay grass and has astringent finish.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2012
at 05:56
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Small to medium off-white head, fast receding over big-bubbled copperish-golden beer. Caramelly, malty, probably candi sugar. Bit of garden weeds/grassy. Faint acidity; bitterness behind partly burnt caramel, maybe partly hops - but the overall result is metallic. Like something kept in corrugated barrels, some old wood. Retronasal flavour as from way overripe peach. Warming up, some faint bready/yeasty notes. Very highly carbonated, to the pont of agressiveness. Light to medium boided, quite slick, but giving somehow a raw alcohol impression. Ho-hum. Affligem can do better, certainly for a celebration beer. Underwhelming.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Aug 2012
at 11:09
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Affligem Cuvée 950 (by Brouwerij Affligem / De Smedt (Heineken)):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5
1/VI/2012 - 33cl bottle @ d'Oude Brouwerij (Affligem) - BB: 12/III/14 (2012-566)
Clear orange beer, big fizzy off-white head, pretty stable, little adhesive. Aroma: quite some banana, sweet malts, little grassy, sugary sweetness. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: bit citric in the start, quite a lot of banana, sweet, sugary, little metallic bitterness. Aftertaste: sugar, banana, citric bitter hops, bit grassy, ok bitterness. Quadrupple hopped? Please, don't lie on the labels, it's not nice of you...
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5
1/VI/2012 - 33cl bottle @ d'Oude Brouwerij (Affligem) - BB: 12/III/14 (2012-566)
Clear orange beer, big fizzy off-white head, pretty stable, little adhesive. Aroma: quite some banana, sweet malts, little grassy, sugary sweetness. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: bit citric in the start, quite a lot of banana, sweet, sugary, little metallic bitterness. Aftertaste: sugar, banana, citric bitter hops, bit grassy, ok bitterness. Quadrupple hopped? Please, don't lie on the labels, it's not nice of you...
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2012
at 09:15