La Fringante
Unibroue in Chambly, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.11
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Josh’s translation of the French description: La Fringante is a deluxe, triple-fermented beer born of a unique strain of yeast which gives it an unexpected finesse. A champagne-like effervescence, its vigourous presence in the mouth underlines its markedly strong personality of balanced flavours of spices, malt and hops.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Poured a orange/yellow hazy brew (color is reminiscent of Unibroue 10) with a nice bubbly/foamy whitish head with no much of retention. Carbonation is tight and aroma of spice with usual Unibroue hops style. Taste of alcohol is not subtle and even too strong that it hides the mix of spice. This is definitely not the best from Unibroue and it seems to me that it is just another variation of their usual Belgian ale.
Tried
on 02 Feb 2004
at 14:01
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Colour of wet straw, very faint haze; collapsing, broken-white head. Nose of white wine, candi-sugar - very little nose, however. Dry, alcoholic taste, lots of candi sugar. Fine aromatic flavours around the main sweeter taste; flowery, spicey and sugar-preserved lemony. Very dry, but tingling sensation, related to the surrounding aromatic taste, is very remarkable. Warming up, I get white wine again - might it be added? A nice beer, well made. But, possibly in order to stay close to the Belgian examples, quite a bit planer than most big Unibroue beers.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Jan 2004
at 04:17
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
This complex beer is the most refined of all of Unibroue’s beers. Hazy yellow color with a huge white head. The nose is pine, lemon and sugar candy. The palate is quite peppery with lemon and yeastiness persisting through out leading to a quick tart lemony finish. Simply their best blonde ale!!!
Tried
from Can
on 08 Aug 2003
at 22:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Orange colour with lively quickly vanishing head. Rich aroma of fruit, peach in perticular. Sweet and malty, velvetty soft. Balanced and dangerously drinkable with a smooth finish full of burnt sugar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2003
at 00:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2005-03-19, 2 years old bottle, 7-3-8-4-16=38
Both taste and aroma are malty and dry, with a late residual sweetness, a lot of coriander and a light fruitness. Warming
2004-03-13, 6-3-6-4-14
Hazy gold color, poor head. The simple edge of a Strong Belgian Ale, a bit fruity, but not able to fully hide the alcohol
2002-11-25, 9-5-8-4-16
Light amber color, cloudy; giant rocky head. Fresh aroma, fruity, citrus fruits, spicy (pepper and coriander). Fresh taste, malt, pretty sweet, good body strength, perfectly hiding the high alcohol content; spicy (pepper and coriander). I would consider it a Grand Cru (actually I don’t know if it contains wheat), for the spicy, fresh, citrusy character; really good example, but not impressive.
Both taste and aroma are malty and dry, with a late residual sweetness, a lot of coriander and a light fruitness. Warming
2004-03-13, 6-3-6-4-14
Hazy gold color, poor head. The simple edge of a Strong Belgian Ale, a bit fruity, but not able to fully hide the alcohol
2002-11-25, 9-5-8-4-16
Light amber color, cloudy; giant rocky head. Fresh aroma, fruity, citrus fruits, spicy (pepper and coriander). Fresh taste, malt, pretty sweet, good body strength, perfectly hiding the high alcohol content; spicy (pepper and coriander). I would consider it a Grand Cru (actually I don’t know if it contains wheat), for the spicy, fresh, citrusy character; really good example, but not impressive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2002
at 09:32