Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thanks Chris for sending.
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a semi - hazy orange to amber color with a decent transparency about it. There was a fairly filmy somewhat thick lacing.
The smell had a nice sweet candied fruity goodness. A nice Belgian sugary sticky spice enters in as it warms. Light vanilla came across as well.
The taste was mainly sticky sweet through the Belgian spices and sugars. Still, a nice sweet tropical fruit settles over my tongue in a super nice way. Vanilla settles over pretty nicely.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was good and smooth and it carried a nice somewhat crisp settling feeling rolling over my tongue.
Overall, really nice Belgian Strong pale ale, I’d have it again.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Sympatyczny trunek, piana silna, puszysta i biała. W zapachu trochę drożdżowy z odrobiną aromatu owocowego. Pije się je łatwo z przyjemnością nuty owocowe wyraźniejsze, w czasie degustacji odczuwalne miłe ciepełko, na minus zbyt wyraźny posmak alkoholu.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle @viisi penniä. Dark amber, thick white head. Sour berry aroma, cherries. Flavor has cherries, tartness, mild sweetness in finish. Decent, bit odd.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle Pours amber , good white head . Smell is weak , bit bitter grainyness . Some dough-like spices . Overcarbonated . Taste is bitter, some earthy spices , bit perfumy . Balanced, and quite good .. If only not so damn overcarbonated ...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Artisanal tripel (mind the incorrect spelling ’trippel’ on the label) with rocky, dense, snow white head (captured after fierce gushing) and hazy peach blond colour. Complex and strong aroma, a basket of exotic fruits, melon, orange, kiwi, banana, strawberry, tomato, aniseed, coriander, freshly grated ginger, field flowers, cheese spread, eggnogg and lavender. Delicately sweet taste, sparkling with relatively strong carbonation, smoothly evolving into a powerful, long, sticky, oily and cheesy hop bitterness (dry-hopping) bringing the whole to sheer perfect balance. Used to be quite famed among the well-informed beer adepts and I agreed with them: this is / was an underestimated masterpiece. Too bad for the gushing, though, so not completely flawless.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Long time ago since I tasted this, doesn’t exist anymore. I remember this as a deep peach blonde wheat beer with snow white head and fruity, bready and spicy profile, sweetish and a bit ethereal with bitterish finish, unusual for its style but all the more enjoyable just because of that.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Deep blond Christmas beer, hazy, with caramelly aroma, fruity yeastiness, flowery hops, fruity taste with light spiciness, sweetish. Not bad but rather forgettable compared with so many other Belgian Christmas ales.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Not the actual tripel in this range but still a tripel-like beer, with a cream white, decreasing, thin head and warm ’old gold’ colour; bready and doughy character, fruity (apple, peach), some weak honeyish sweetness, yeasty with mild spiciness, but solvents as well. Not the masterpiece as claimed above, but more than acceptable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Artisanal ’massieve ale’ with off-white, sticky, decreasing but stable head and deep bronze colour with a haze of yeast just below the head. Sweet fruity and yeasty aroma with impressions of apple sauce, overripe pears, pineapple, bread, cake, vanilla, rhubarb, buttermilk, candi sugar, walnuts, dried leaves, soap and peppery hops. Fruity and malty taste, sweet but not sticky, a bit mineral-like with stronger than average carbonation for the style, more nutty and dry in the end with medium hop bitter finish. Quite enjoyable indeed.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Something between an Irish red and a Belgian amber, with yellow white, thick but not very stable, moussy head and misty copper colour. Fruity aroma of mango, melon, pear, passion fruit, also tomato, ginger, whisky, walnuts, cake, honey and some DMS (cooked cabbage) as well as an ever so faint hint of H2S (rotten eggs). Soft caramelly taste, fruity, yeasty, medium carbo, medium bitter finish.