Transmutation Belgian Specialty Ale
Category 12 Brewing in Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
5.21
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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.
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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7/10
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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
3.1/10
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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
4.6/10
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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
5.6/10
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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
5.1/10
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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.
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
4.2/10
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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
2.4/10
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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