Witches Brew
Brouwerij Van Steenberge in Ertvelde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.79
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Enjoy this bottle conditioned blond triple living ale. Its pleasant hoppyness is masterly balanced with a soft round and joyous sweetness, enveloped in a radiating glow.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Clear golden pour, huge rocky white head.
Soft yeasty aroma, sweet sugars, pears and apples. Body is a little thin, carb is way over the top. Finish is very light on the bitterness. Mineral and metallic aftertaste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
Refrigerated 75 brown bottle poured into a snifter. Amber, fruity aroma, and fruity taste.
theisti (5540) reviewed Witches Brew from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
750 ml bottle given to me as a Halloween gift. The pour is hazy golden with a well formed one inch white head. The aroma is traditional Trippel nose, nice soft Belgian yeast, fruit esters, evident alcohol. The taste matches the nose, big yeast flavor, the fruit sweet malt was present as well as warming alcohol in the finish. The palate is medium to heavy bodied, heat in the finish. Solid version of a style I don’t normally go crazy about.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Witches Brew from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Belgian ale introduced in 2009 and intended for export to the U.S., with a snow white, sticky head and orangey golden blonde colour. Aroma of citrus peel, bitter honey, unripe peach, vanilla, green hops, apple. Fresh fruity onset, applish, dried apricot, subtle citrus freshness, hint of vanilla, malt sweet backbone and floral hop bitterness in the finish. Better than most of the beers this brewery sells on the home market!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
(bottle) clear light amber colour with a small white head; aromas of champagne, spice; balanced flavour with a long light bitter finish; quite decent
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
This review was imported from my RateBeer ratings.
750 ml bottle. Pours a slightly cloudy, golden-orange with a tall, frothy, white head the dissipates quickly. Aromas of sweet bread, apricot, and maybe a hint of orange. Taste is moderately sweet with flavors of orange and candied lemon. Has a medium body with a thick texture. Carbonation is lively, but not overly so. Finish is moderate with a touch of sourness as the flavors wane.
Overall, a really nice beer. Although, I do find it a little bit "sticky" on the palate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Single brown, wine-looking, bottle from the LCBO with a cork and cage. Pours a shinning golden colour with a big soapy head that fizzes away slowly and gives a bit of foam lacing. Mild aromas of spices (cloves, coriander), Belgian Ale yeast, apples and light citrus (oranges mostly). Smooth mouthfeel with a nice balance between oily and creamy. No burning at all and just slight warming. The taste is pretty fruity at first, but does calm down with time. Citrus, apples with the spices and nicely balanced bitterness, which creates a little dryness. Maybe not a full Tripel, but has a lot of the guts of one. A decent brew from the cauldron.
Boutip (9769) reviewed Witches Brew from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 13 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle: Poured a hazy bright golden color ale with a super large foamy head with good retention and some great lacing. Aroma of fruity ester with peppery yeast and sweet Belgian style malt notes are quite nice. Taste is a mix between some fruity ester and peppery yeast with some rustic Belgian malt notes with light residual candi sugar notes. Body is fuller then average with good carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Well brewed and enjoyable without re-writing the style.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Witches Brew from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Smells like lots of florals. Good Belgian blonde verging on triple. Pours cloudy blond with good head and lacing on the creamy bleached side. Floral hops, slightly sour malt. 750 ml bottle.
superspak (10160) reviewed Witches Brew from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750 ml bottle into chalice, 26HH bottle code(?). Pours lightly hazy golden orange color with a good 2 finger foamy white head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Spotty foamy lacing clings to the glass, with a small amount of carbonation streaming up. Aromas of apple, pear, apple skin, caramel, grape, candi sugar, raisin, clove, herbal, earth, and yeast spiciness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity. Taste of apple, pear, raisin, grape, clove, candi sugar, caramel, herbal, earth, and yeast spiciness. Lingering notes of light fruits, caramel, candi sugar, clove, earth, and yeast spices on the finish for a bit. Awesome balance of malty flavors with great complexity; no cloying sweetness at all. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a fairly creamy and slick mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is extremely well hidden with hardly any warming noticed after the finish. Very smooth to sip on. Overall this is a highly excellent tripel! Great flavor balance and complexity; and very smooth to sip on. Really enjoyed this one.