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 - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Spotty beige head on a hazy amber coloured body. Medium bodied, smooth with a lively back. Belgian yeast, pepper, clove, apricot & citrussy tastes with a bitter finish.
tiong (21414) reviewed 75 Years Anniversary from St. Bernardus Brouwerij 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
750ml bottle. Sweetish, smooth and warming with some yeastiness, hints of spices and earthiness. Quite balanced
mjs (12070) reviewed 75 Years Anniversary from St. Bernardus Brouwerij 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(Bottle, 0.75 l - BB 30.11.2023, from Speciaalbierpakket, at Arde, 20221021) The beer poured deep golden and clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had grass, honey, malts and Belgian style yeast. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, grass, Belgian style yeast, honey, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste had honey, grass and bitterness. A pleasant brew with honey notes.
Hermod (18229) reviewed 75 Years Anniversary from St. Bernardus Brouwerij 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
75cl bottle #09189. Thanks mjs. Bbe. 301123. Poured clear light golden. Mild fruity and spicy, clean. Notes of almonds, belgian yeast, orange candy. Excellent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 0.75l at Ardes Residence, Helsinki. Thanks mjs! Bottle #09189. Color is clear golden with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Some fruits, caramel, Belgian yeast, harshness.... nicely harsh tripel!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
20/VIII/22 - 75cl bottle @ Gents Bierfestival, BB: n/a (2022-1054)
Clear orange beer, big creamy solid white head, stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very yeasty, a bit malty, grains, some cow fodder, hoppy touch, some banana. MF: lively carbon, medium to full body. Taste: nice one! Very fruity, a little sourish, good bitterness, some apples, yeasty, a bit sweet, good yeast character, nice! Aftertaste: dry, spicy, hoppy, grains, fruity, more apples, bitter, very decent tripel!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
75cl Bottle @ Belgium online. Pours hazy deep Dark Golden with a creamy White head and lacings. Lovely nose. Slightly spicy. Cloves and citrus. Wheat and a touch of overripe fruit. Vinous and fruity flavor. Dry short hoppy finish with some warming alcohol. Nice sipper.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Special strong blonde in the Sint-Bernardus range created for the 75th anniversary of the brewery, starting up as a cheese producer originally but becoming a respected beer producer when they started to produce ales under license of the Sint-Sixtus trappist monks. This anniversary beer comes from a limited number of 75 cl bottles with cork. Cobweb-lacing, coarse and irregular, off-white, medium thick head, misty amber-tinged peach blonde robe with visible sparkling. Aroma of ripe banana but a bit less so than in their standard tripel (or dark ales), freshly oven-baked bread, oxidized green apple slices, phenolic clove, unripe pear, young ‘jenever’, field flowers, something vaguely sulfuric (freshly lit matches), old potatoes, minerals, pumice, straw, old nutmeg, black cardamom. Fruity onset, clear banana ester, red apple, Conference pear, lively carbonated; low in residual sweetness, feeling drier than average for a Sint-Bernardus beer, with rounded, supple body. Bready, lightly rusk- and biscuit-like malts with a grainy edge; again dryish, with little residual sugariness. Phenolic clove, nutmeg and cardamom hints return retronasally, some dried wormwood perhaps, followed by a gentle grassy hop bitter note and warming, ‘jenever’-like alcohol; the spicy phenols and unripe fruity aspects linger in the finish. Initially I was expecting more ‘bells and whistles’ from a Sint-Bernardus anniversary beer, but upon closer examination, this is quite an interesting one, genetically related to their tripel (with green label) but notably drier, less banana-fruity and a tad less opulent so a very different, distinct beer indeed. Tasty as expected, but I think I would have enjoyed it more with a bit more age on it, as this one seems to ask for a few months of cellaring before consumption.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
75cl bottle from the brewery, shared with my Belgian father in law. Pours a misty amber with a large fluffy white head. Aroma is spicy with gentle herbs, fragrant yeasty expressions. Taste presents more of a delicate hop and herbal floral character, encompassing red apple, pear, banana rather than the standard creamy sweet triple profile. A very fine sipper.