75 Years Anniversary
St. Bernardus Brouwerij in Watou, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Special|
Score
7.69
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Colour
A rich golden beer with an ample, but elegant head of foam.
Character, flavour, aromas
‘75 Years Anniversary’ definitely shares all the typical traits of a St.Bernardus: Watou’s groundwater gives it a lovely briny tang, quality malts ensure a pleasantly full mouthfeel with notes of brown sugar and nougat, and the unique yeast makes for a refreshingly fruity aroma reminiscent of fruits such as banana, red apple and pear. A balanced finish is complemented nicely by the refined bitterness of the hops.
Culinary
This festive birthday beer is a delicious accompaniment to a seafood salad, hearty grilled meats, or a poultry stew with plenty of vegetables. Of course, it is also worth savouring as a pre-dinner drink or to round things off, with a nice bit of St.Bernardus cheese!
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
7fiddy, thanks to my bro for this ISO ale. It pours hazy deep blonde - orange with a thick, rugged white head. The aroma is rich and hearty bready malts, toasty grains, cereal, bitter - sweet, perfumed, foamy banana candy, banana sponge cake, warming spice and clove rock. The taste is firm dryness, sweet - sour, zingy, tangy, bright orangey citrus, kumquat, marmalade sandwiches, fruit jelly, boozey warmth, sponge cake, cereal, nuttiness, honeyed grain, green banana and banana split with a warming finish. Medium body and moderate, foamy carbonation nice depth to it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle at home, 7th December 24. Pours a golden beer. Aroma is caramel, apricot, yeast, floral. Taste is yeasty floral, spice, caramel, sweet, some bitterness. Lovely
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bouteille 75cl, # 3769, BB 30/11/2023.
Dorée, col épais crémeux blanc-cassé assez tenace.
Arôme sur un bouquet belge - esters fruité de la banane, côté un peu abricot confit avec un herbacé qui revient en rétro-nasal. Le tout ponctué par de fins effluves de malts entre cara pâle, léger 'bready'.
Palais donne de suite un léger côté alcoolisé, dès le départ, je retrouve une influence belge claire - notamment au niveau de la levure avec qcq esters de bananes et girofle. Note herbes médicinales avec une pointe de sucre résiduelle - et caramel malté. Amertume fine sur le noble qui renvoie encore sur ce caractère herbacé, voire une pointe épicée d'anise/réglisse, léger sucre candi et un côté cour de ferme.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
hazy bright orange-ish golden colour, moderate sized creamy yellowish ecru head; aroma of banana, peachy, apple peel and grainy notes; taste is similar to the aroma with very intensive banana, quite difinte hoppy and some dried apricot notes; great anniversary beer!
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
0.75l bottle thanks to Lore. Hazy golden body with a lasting white head. Aroma and taste of sugar syrup, banana, apples and grassy hops. The taste has a nice dried apricot note to it. Great beer!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
750 c&c from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours amber with a large creamy white head. Aroma of banana with hint of clove. Arguably full bodied. Soft and lush in the mouth. Flavor is Belgian yeast/spice, clove, banana and a very tasty caramel malt. Reasonably towards dry. Bitter isn't the point. Exquisite.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
0.75 l bottle from 'Bierloods22'. Slightly hazy, orangeish amber with a large, frothy, stable, white head. Sweetish, quite yeasty-spicy, gently fruity-floral aroma of clove, peach, orange peel and some banana. Quite sweet, moderately bitter, rather yeasty-spicy, quite fruity-floral taste of banana, honey, clove, orange peel and some peach, followed by a short, moderately bitter, gently dry finish. Medium to full body, smooth and quite effervescent mouthfeel, lively carbonation. Nicely fruit-forward Tripel, very well-balanced, highly enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Huge, dense yellowish head over lively carbonated hazy ochre-orange beer. White candi sugar, toasted malts, watercolour paint, summer grain, some alcohol traceable. Liquorice, jap , toasted malts, hint at vanilla, sweetish bread, breadcrust. Quite slick, good body, well-carbonated. Really? For the 75th anniversary, couldn't it have beer a bit more daring, a bit more original, a bit more worked upon? This is thirteen to the dozen. And too sweet. Pffff... Txs to Stef!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle # 01572. A yellow-orange beer, a head is quite big and blond. Taste has fruitness, perry, apple, also some dried apricot, spicyness, light citrus. Taste has fruitness, also richness of dried fruitness, spicyness of inspirating pepper. Medium+ bodied. Quite complex and great beer.