Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draught samples at New England Beerfest 2005 and Draught tulips at Redbones on 6/19 and 6/20/06. White head is mostly diminishing, to partial cover and a large ring, white in color. Low clarity, but more transluscent than opaque and a very strong peach-blood orange color, with some light amber tints in the middle. Fruits and spices is the game here, with a highly active Belgian yeast, quite authentically producing peach, nectarine, mango and other orange fruit esters. As well a highly spicy, phenolic effect is notable, drying things out on the end, as light breadiness and dusty, almost plant-like yeastiness pervades the end. Some light mineral/water quality problems are definitely noted, but it is far from strong or intrusive and allows the honey and graham cracker malts room to balance the spicy yeast character without leaving too much slick, hard mineral character. Spicy again in flavor, the palate is confronted mostly by yeast bi-products. Not overly dusty, funky or damp, but with a crisp, dry hay-like bite and some minor breadiness. The yeast provides most of the flavor, producing tons of spicy phenols. Slightly sweet at the beginning, but still at appropriate attenuation levels, it gains a strong, defining dryness on the end, bordering astringency, but for the loose, gentle carbonation that seems to soothe some of this. Trippels, to me, seem a product of yeast and proper attenuation and this one certainly scores well in both categories. The mouthfeel is loose and the carbonation weak, but obviously a product of the draught nature and not the brewing. In a bottle conditioned bottle, I could see this being quite well-done, strongly to style and nearly flawless (but for the light minerals noted from the Shed, showing up in some degree in all of their beers). No alcohol apparent in nose or flavor.