Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Gylden brun klar med beige skum. Lukter havre og karamell. Lett. Lite smak, noe maltekstrakt og papp. Kort.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Amber with off white head - Wort aroma - Wort body with some caramel flavours - Sweet wort finish - This was ok
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Color dorado claro, velada, espuma blanca y efervescente bien retenida. Delicado y sutil aroma a levadura, malta con recuerdos de cilantro y naranja. Finamente carbonatada en boca, ligeramente dulce, notas de levadura, galleta, malta, algo de especias, final suavemente amargo. Ligera, muy bebible y fácilmente disfrutable.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Leicht trübe goldene Farbe, gemischtporige, stabile Schaumkrone. In der Nase Honig, helles Malz, Steinfrüchte und eine leichte Würzigkeit. Im Geschmack weich und gleichzeitig würzig-herb, dezente honigartige Süße, leicht weinartige Aromen, deutliche Hopfenbittere. Insgesamt stimmig, aber auch ein wenig langweilig.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5
375 ml bottle. Pours a bright mahogany color with light head. Aromas of oak, fruity cognac, dried fruit and toasted malts. Flavors of oak, cognac, dried orange, a bit of candi sugar, and toasted malts. Soft and a bit oxidized but still very good.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
750ml bottle. Opalescent, orange, dark golden colour with average, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Minimally grainy and spicy, malty, slightly yeasty fruity and yeasty spicy aroma, notes of apple, clove, a touch of butterscotch. Taste is sweet-ish malty, slightly yeasty fruity and minimally yeasty spicy, hints of apple, clove, some butterscotch, honey, a hoppy touch of orange peel.
Minimally oily, watery texture, smooth and soft palate, medium to fine, mildly prickly carbonation.
Some subtleties, slightly evolving aroma, overall a tad too light and watery - decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home. Unclear red-brownish color, average sized beige head. Aroma is malts, lightly wood, red and black fruit notes, beautiful whisky aroma. Flavor is malts, again beautiful whisky flavors, distant smoke / peat notes, underneath some more of the red and black fruit hints, some wood notes and a bit boozy. Very pleasant and very well done this one. Great barrel aging.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Utseende: Mørk kobber brun.
Lukt: Vørter.
Smak: Vørter.
Skum/kullsyre: Tykt dekkende skum, heng.
Medium: Rating:8-4-4-4-4=4.5, Bottle@330ml, ABV@0%, Når@2025.06.08.
Hvor: Kjøpt@Vaaland, Bryne, Nydt@Hjemme.
Navn: Nillis 0.0%
Stil: NON ALCOHOLIC / LOW ALCOHOL - DARK / STOUT
Bryggeri: La Trappe Trappist - Abdij O.L.V. Koningshoeven
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Special edition of the regular La Trappe Blond, the ordinary Belgian style blonde ale replacing the original (dark) Enkel in a move comparable with what Westvleteren did in the late nineties; this special one is, however, distinguished by the use of three extra grain species, namely oats, rye and wheat, which are not present in the all-barley Blond. Comes from a fancy 75 cl bottle with cork, muselet and embossed label. Medium thick, off-white, thickly shred-lacing, breaking and (very) irregularly retaining, yet eventually very much thinning head on an initially crystal clear, warm 'metallic' orange-golden robe with fierce strings of sparkling rising up from the bottom of the glass, turning misty and a bit deeper orangey with sediment. Aroma of banana-flavoured bubblegum (strong!), dried peach, industrial honey cookies, raw sweet potato, turnip, white bread from the supermarket, wet flour, sweet apple (peel), hints of grass, clove, cold tea, candied apricot, old rubber, rainwater. Sweetish onset with a lot of isoamylacetate (bubblegum and banana), hints of candied peach or apricot and vague red apple, sharply carbonated with 'prickly' minerally effects, smooth-bodied (with part of that smoothness doubtlessly coming from the oats here). Cereally core, grainy with indeed a bit more than just graininess, namely a soapy wheat slickness and oatmeal smoothness - and perhaps, with some goodwill, a very vague background dash of rye spicy-breadiness, but less so than in e.g. the conceptually comparable first edition of Karmeliet Grand Cru, to name another industrial ale using these four grains. Boring slick graininess predominates, however, with this annoying bubblegumminess sticking to it - the rest is so detailed and subtle that it seems to stand no chance to fully develop. Continuing 'simple' (primarily banana) fruitiness in the finishing stage, gradually bittered by a leafy hoppiness underlying the banana ester and the grains. It remains a simple, dull, dried-weed-like bitterness, though, with a somewhat rubbery side effect - and amplified by something far more irritating, namely quite badly hidden, wry, even somewhat 'jenever'-ish alcohol with a slightly astringent effect on the root of the tongue. This should never be the case in a 7% ABV beer and given that this is a trappist beer, something which set the standard for ale brewing in the Low Countries in the 19th and 20th centuries, this is one flaw that greatly surprises me. If I am honest, I never really liked La Trappe Blond (nor Tripel) for the same reasons that disappoint me in this one: too shallow, too sweet, too bubblegummy and 'industrial', like some big macro product. La Trappe has always been the most 'commercial' and opportunistic of the traditional trappist breweries and that shows in the Blond - but sadly also in this special edition, which uses the added grain species so frugally that they make only a minor difference, even though their presence is certainly noticeable to those who know what to look for (and the 'aftertaste' here is certainly more bready than expected, just too bad that this pleasant breadiness is not manifested at an earlier stage when tasting). A side-by-side tasting with the regular Blond would be very interesting here, because on top of the fact that the special grains only make a fairly subtle difference, the alcohol is a bit astringent in this one too, and I do not remember this from the regular Blond (though it has admittedly been many, many years since I had that one). All due respect for the monks - who I presume have even less to do with the brewing process of the La Trappe beers now than was the case a few decades ago - but this is, all things considered, a rather bland, mass-oriented offering (in spite of it being a "special edition") reminiscent of indeed the first Karmeliet Grand Cru I already mentioned, and I am not even sure if beats that one only because it has the 'authentic' trappist product label on it... Still, for that nicely bready aftertaste only and nothing else, one notch above the regular Blond for me.