50 cL bottle, courtesy of Theis and Mette. Pours hazy to cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is sweet, yeasty, slight vegetable like and spiced aroma. Mild sweet, caramelish and phenolic yeasty fruity flavoured. Spiced and phenolic finish, very classic. Ends dry and lingering caramel and spiced flavoured.

Pours gold into a trappist glass. White head quickly dissipates to skim surface. Caramel aromas. Sweet and dry with honey and alcohol.

Throwdown. Sugary malts and slightly vegetal. Sugary flavors and somewhat yeasty. A hint of hops at the finish. Gold color.

Huge, dense yellowish head; yellow-golden beer with a faint amber shine and high carbonation level. Very outspoken nose of white candi sugar, perfumed and with no doubt coriander - to be artsy Belgy. Way too sweet, way too perfumed syrupy-sugary taste. What is the point of adding tons of totally fermentable sugars if you don’t allow them, in one way or another, to ferment out? A "triple"- Flemish strong blonde ought to be bone DRY. Ends in a bit gingery-orangey flavours, and warming up, there remains less and less beer in the corianderjuice. Too thick, too sweet by half; limited alcoholwarming. Not a particulary good interpretation of a Belgian Strong Blonde. Very New World. Merci quand-même, Luc! I have been informed that this beer actually contains no coriander. There must be some other spice and a very specific yeast, especially. If that last is culprit, I recommend immediate genocide on this infernal race.

(Bottle 50 cl) Pours a hazy, amber golden with an off-white head. Very perfumy aroma of violets and ginger and some coriander. Rather full and alcoholic body. Sweetish, fruity notes, again perfumy patterns and a marked alcohol. Quite interesting really. 290806

A hazy orange beer with an orange head. The aroma is very spicy - especially black peber is noticable, but also with notes of peaches and hints of alcohol. The flavor is very sweet and very spicy - again with black peber, but also notes of oranges, peaches, and alcohol that burns in the throat.

2004 bottle. Either from MartinT or purchased by myself at Johanette, can’t remember. Shared with SuIIy on 4/24/06
Lively, bottle conditioned pour with tons of sediment left in the bottom of the bottle shows a sparkling, deep copper with plenty of bronze tints, tiny bubbles rising and a large, frothy, fluffy white head that is magnificently well-retained and provides ample lacing.
The nose is very clean, with a mildly mineralic yeastiness, soft bubble gum and light lemons providing contrast. Wheat seems to be present, adding a dignified smoothness with a light creaminess. Hints of caramel, and just minimally phenolic, with a strong perfuminess on the end perhaps from the alcohol. I’m positive that I couldnt discern this from a motherland trippel if given it blind. The nose is just so well balanced and with such a clean, fluffy yeast. Add a bit more yeast and malt complexity and it would be right up there with the best.
The flavor, however, is surprisingly much sweeter than the aroma lets on. Dry biscuit malts from the nose are lost in a strong current of caramel and pils malt sweetness that contains dots of peppery phenols (clove and black pepper being the most distinct) and a bubble gum/cotton candy flavor on the end that is sweet and sugary as well. Carbonation is very prominent at first, expanding too quickly in the mouth, though providing relief from the heavily sweet malts. It settles out a bit too loosely, there didnt seem to be much middle ground here. Bread, dough, pepper and vanilla-meets-honey flavors all abound. Finish is dried out by the alcohol and light phenols. I’m surprised to see this ranked higher than 8eme Jour, that one seemed, at least to me, to be much more balanced, lively and crisp, while not relying on the alcohol for dryness.

Brown bottle, 500 ml; eye: amber with orangey and yellow relections, lightly hazy, quite effervescent, nice persisting white head made up of champagne-style bubbles, nice lacing as well; nose: yeast, banana, spices, citrusy, caramel; mouth: its caramel makes it moderately sweet while its hops makes it lightly bitter, spices, hint of alcohol that appears as pepper, creamy and slightly oitly texture, nice carbonation, long finale where the bitterness and alcohol nicely merge, medium to full body FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 500 ml; oeil : ambrée avec des reflets orangés et jaunes, légèrement voilée, très effervescente, belle mousse blanche persistante formée de petites bulles style « champagne », belle dentelle; nez : levure, banane, épices, citronnée, caramel; bouche : son caramel la rend moyennement sucrée tandis que son houblon la rend légèrement amère, épices, pointe d’alcool sous la forme de poivre, texture crémeuse et légèrement huileuse, bonne carbonatation, longue finale où l’amertume et l’alcool ressortent, corps moyen à plein

Hazy golden amber ale with a thick creamy off-white head. Sweet alcohol and maple aroma with light orange notes. Good sweet malt base, with smooth orange peels and maple notes, wam alcohol finish. Excellent. Summer 2005.