This has a great citrus hop aroma. Intense flavor, more citrus, hops and sweet malt. Dark brown appearance. All of the aromas and flavors are powerful, and the quality of the beer is clear. This is in the style of Houblon.

Pours with a very dark brown body, not black, and a tiny head that quickly fades. Lighter hues on the surface of the glass but no visibilty inside. Aroma is dry roasty espresso with nothing behind that. Makes me think like the base beer is nothing special and they added espresso. Taste is also espresso but not as roasty as the aroma suggests and then there is this lagered-mineral flavor and a lagered-fruitiness, which I dont like. A thin, watery, light bodied beer. Overall not much substance behind the espresso, but the espresso is nice. The yeastie part of beer is the best. 750ml bottle, bottle #121 (out of a billion!), Maredsous taller thinner goblet glass.

Pours a watery, slightly opaque deep brown with amber hues and a thin white head. Smells sugary and slightly malty, but not a whole lot of nose. Heavy malt and very sugary, but not a lot else for flavor. Slightly syrupy on the palate, otherwise smooth. I always find it funny when nut browns don’t taste a thing like nuts. Drinkable but not exceptional.

Poured a translucent red amber with a creamy, lacing white head. Aroma is great, sweet and malty, but also hoppy with pine and lemon. Flavor was heavy on the citrus and very bitter, but caramel and candy on the end really smoothes things out. Finish is bitter but very drinkable.

Bottle pours a very dark brown with a smal light tan head and spotty lacing. Aroma is strongly of coffee and some chocolate. Flavor is farily sweet and of chared wood, bitterswet chocolate again and coffee again. A bit thin but a tasty combination. Thanks to Jah Noth for this rare sample.

Bottle #59 - dark brown/mahogany colored beer that stirs up a small tan head only after a vigorous pour - strong coffee aroma, with notes of charred wood, chocolate and black cherries - kind of thin-bodied - powerful, burnt coffee flavor, with a following artificial sweetness that tastes a lot like Sweet ’n Low - a touch of smoke and that charred character from the aroma - some cocoa and dried fruit try to show themselves late, but are overpowered by the other flavors - an interesting, albeit not completely successful experiment.

Hoppy tripel… I don’t think so. Slightly sweeter DIPA, ohhh yes! Pours with no head but a thick, dark orange color and absolutely no clarity, barely even any light coming through it. Aroma of bitter, young, tropical fruits that just have not ripened yet; thick and perfume-y. Nothing about the aroma says Belgian but it is sweet and hoppy, just like the taste. Taste is cloying sweet, over the top sweet hops, with an astringent bitter hop finish topped of with a decent serving of alcohol. Hard to drink, it’s a sweet, strong, alchy, hop-bomb. Finishes with a bitter-skins aftertaste. Medium body and slightly subdued carbonation with a syrupy mouthfeel. Summary: think Double SImcoe but thicker, bigger, more alcohol, and extremely cloying, ehh. 750ml bottle #1690 (out of how many..?), released April 07 (except I could not find it anywhere until July); Rodenbach Grand Cru smaller tulip glass

750ml bottle pours out a ligth haze amber topped with a off white hea. A great hop aroma. Abbey going on for me??? As and IPA very good. A nice bitter end. Thanks Indiana_red

Bottle. Pour is a reddish brown and aromas are definitely Cascade hops based. Pine and grapefruit dominate, but there is a bit of a malt sweetness underlying. Flavor shows an unbalance... there is not enough of a malt structure to support that much hops and it comes off as lopsided. Then again, if you want a hops drink, this is for you.