Golden Delicious
Captain Lawrence Brewing Company in Elmsford, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
7.20
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottled 09/17/2014.
Thank you Bill/WassailWilly for sending.
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a slightly hazy orange color with a moderately paced carbonation seen rising to feed a rapidly dissipating head. Light lacing speckled the glass in a messy sort of way.
The smell started off with a soft yet slightly tart to sweet to light sour apple. Light spice interweaves itself in and out allowing a light breadiness to round it out. Light citrus and freshly cut grass roll in and out as it warms.
The taste was semi-sweet and carried the sour back to lead to a crisp apple. A crisp and fresh subtle fresh grassy and sweet apple aftertaste starts and leads to subtle dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a decent sipping to sessionable quality. Weird, it feels like I want to pound this, but the ABV isn’t exactly suspect. I really don’t feel the 11%, still I get this and believe it to be good. Did the ABV fade? I dunno.
Overall, this is a wonderful tripel with the apple notes streaming all about in the aroma and taste. I’d probably love this on a hot summer’s evening watching the sun go down across a lake.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at The Ginger Man, New York, NY. A light golden coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Sweet, fruity, yeasty, Belgian aroma. Tastes similar, sweet, fruity, apple, yeasty, and quite Belgian in character.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pine Box Rock Shop, Brooklyn tap: Pours golden with a white head. Aroma is strange, definitely like nothing that I had before. Plenty of sugar, pie, some hops. The taste is what I didn’t really like. I found this beer generally hard to stomach. It seemed to me to be just too much of something. It wasn’t exactly the high alcohol content. Nor was it too much apple brandy. It was something about the whole package that just didn’t speak to me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Brown bottle, 1 pint 9.4 ounces, from and with Chad Francis (thank you!), savoured on March 14 2014; eye: unfiltered apple juice, lightly hazy, tiny ring of off-white head, light lacing; nose: refreshing, fruity, light woody, light sugar; mouth: refreshing, fruity, light woody, light sugar, light wild yeasts, light floral hops, semi-dry finale in calvados with light presence of wild yeasts, good carbonation, lightly sweet, lightly bitter, slick texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 1 pinte 9,4 onces, de et avec Chad Francis (thank you!), savourée le 14 mars 2014; œil : jus de pomme non filtrée, légèrement voilée, petit anneau de mousse blanc cassé, légère dentelle; nez : rafraîchissant, fruité, léger boisé, léger sucre; bouche : rafraîchissant, fruité, léger boisé, léger sucre, léger alcool, léger levures sauvages, léger houblon floral, finale semi-sèche en calvados avec légère présence de levures sauvages, bonne carbonatation, légèrement sucrée, légèrement amère, texture coulante; en résumé : bien
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured a hazy golden color ale with a nice foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of lightly sweet Belgian malt with light apple brandy notes. Taste is a very drinkable mix of Belgian malt with light residual candi sugar notes and some light Brandy notes also noticeable. Body is full with good carbonation. I quite enjoyed that one with loads of nice drinkability notes and the Brandy notes rounding off some of rough edges.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A hazed golden ale with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet fruity apple malt with light Brett, musty character, woody notes, very nice. In mouth, a rather raspy apple malt with cork and cognac alcohol, interesting. Bottle from Cfrancis.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottled 10/7/2013, from Half Time, drunk 2/7/14
Slightly gushing, leading to a humongous white head, that is very well-retained topping a soft copper-amber body with a touch of haziness and plentiful tiny bubbles rising. Nice lacing.
Before even going for my glass, the brett (and apple!) waft out of the glass very enticingly. Not alcoholic and quite a nice combination of both. At this point only a touch of the fruitiness from the amarillo is noticeable, and quite integrated with the fruity yeast esters. Very juicy, soft and complex aroma, with the apple notes being quite delicious, as advertised. No fusels, no sharp tannins...Pretty phenomenal.
Brett acids quickly wash over the palate, lots of band-aid and light lemon, which transition seemlessly to a dry wood tannin and lightly alcoholic apple brandy flavor. All the while, the body is dextrinous and malty enough to support the alcohol and barrel character without being even a bit too sweet. Tight carbonation keeps it fairly crisp, even, while the acids and wood keep it very dry on the end.
Though there is certainly a bit of astringency and light alcohol apparent, the barrel character is so well-balanced and the apple comes through perfectly flavorful. Impressively soft, nearly creamy texture makes it very drinkable and the brett and amarillo are just icing on the cake. Really enjoyable! Much better than the batch 1 draft I had back at its debut at EBF 08 (if I remember correctly). That one was pretty flat, too alcoholic and sharply tannic, with nowhere near as developed malt or brett.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
pours cloudy orange with a small off white head. The aroma is a strong oak and apples. Medium mouthfeel with strong apple spice and malt with very boozey finish. Good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Most recent vintage. Aroma is initially dominated by apple cider but that quickly fades and you get a solid amount of the barrel character. Solid pear and fruit esters along with some light malt character. Some alcohol spice in the aroma. Pours a cloudy golden orange, similar to cloudy apple juice. Moderately thick white head with fairly good retention. Light lacing and faint legs. Flavor starts with some slightly sweet malt character, but that quickly dissipates and is overwhelmed by apple brandy barrel. The finish is all barrel and alcohol. It unfortunately really overwhelms the base beer. Some fruit notes and moderate bitterness. Wow, I really don?t like the finish. Mouthfeel is medium full bodied with medium carbonation. Low but present astringency and moderate alcohol warmth. Overall this beer really missed the mark past the initial taste. The beer is dominated by barrel notes and really doesn?t offer much else. The bitterness also doesn?t work super well with the barrel finish. It actually gets better as it warms.