Category 12 Brewing Transmutation Belgian Specialty Ale

Transmutation Belgian Specialty Ale

 

Category 12 Brewing in Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

  Belgian Style - Tripel Regular
Score
5.21
ABV: 9.5% IBU: - Ticks: 7
Some observations simply defy explanation. Sometimes the most carefully crafted experiment yields totally unexpected results. This is a beer larger than the sum of its parts.

Originally conceived as a Belgian Tripel, the addition of a heap of aromatic hops resulted in Transmutation – our signature seasonal release. Slightly sweet and effervescent, with a Northwest hop influence, this medium-bodied beer is made with hand-crafted Candi sugar and is dangerously smooth.
 

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7
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6

Can shared at Hori, koszi Elod! Ez a friss batch mar sokkal tisztabb, es kozelebb all a klasszik belga peldakhoz (marmint ahhoz kepest, mint amilyen anno lehetett a regebbi ertekelesek alapjan), meg ha nem is jon kozel a tradicionalis belga klasszikusokhoz.

Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:16


3.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5

Amber pour, beige head. Aroma. Is incredibly boozy, with loads of vegetal yeastiness, and a cloying amount of candied sugar. Finish is cloyingly sweet with an odd canned vegetal flavour. This bares zero resemblance to a tripel, or anything Belgian. This was rough.

Tried from Can on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:15


4.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Poured from the 650mL bottle. Hazy orange with minimal off-white head. Cloying sweetness with vegetable and hint of wood. Very poor example of a tripel.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Mar 2017 at 02:52


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Draft - Lots of woody almost cedar notes. Copper gold with a decent white head. Woody and sweet boozy yeasty notes. A bold beer.

Tried from Draft on 07 Oct 2016 at 23:17


5.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Hazy amber color. Light aroma of rotten apples. Strong body, it has some residual sweetness, again that feeling of rotting apples, light fruity esters, and a woody, unpleasant bitterness in the final.
Difficult to control high-gravity fermentation…
Not very good.

Tried on 30 Mar 2016 at 21:12


4.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

On tap at St. Augustine's, pours a clear cooper / amber with a small beige head. Aroma is subtle, with notes of Belgian yeast and candied sugar. Flavour is nastily sweet, with cloying-as-hell candied sugar and Belgian yeast. Cough syrup finish. Everything I hate about North American attempts at tripels. Nasty amount of residual sugar. Very bad.

Tried from Draft on 21 Mar 2016 at 22:25


2.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5

650 ml bottle. Pours a very dark amber with moderate head. Aromas of dried fruit and sweet malts with definite vegetal notes. Very strong vegetal flavor - seems to be a good example of a DMS process problem. Drainpour.

Tried from Bottle on 08 May 2015 at 22:04