Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown colour, no head. Aroma of jenever, port, gin, quite sweet, juniper berries, madeira, dark fruits. Sweet flavour, port, juniper berries. No carbonation. Sticky sweet finish, madeira and juniper berry.
Interesting, and very nice to see the effects of a jenever barrel on a dark beer.
(Draught from cask @ ZBF ’12)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Wooden cask @ ZBF 2012 // clear dark brown / zero head // smell is heavy of sweet liquorish, caramel, candy & dark fruits // taste is liquorish heavy mixed with porto, candy, toffee malts, woods, herbal & touch bitter in the vanish with a weird vinous / vegetable streak in the finish // soft carbonation // the liquorish & the weird finish // those flavours & combination // pass
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
From a small wooden cask @ ZBF’12. Pours completely flat. Brune foncée, pas de col. Arôme de fruits noirs, malt léger tanins, caramel et ce bouquet de barrique de vin. En bouche, boisé, avec un palais réchauffant, pointe de vanille, profile reste belge, léger toffee et aussi de fumé? fruits noirs sur un léger aspect aigre de raisins/vin rouge assez prononcé.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Sint Canarus Père Canard Grand Cru Barrel Aged (by Huisbrouwerij Sint Canarus):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
28/IV/2012 - on wooden barrel @ ZBF 2012 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2012-417)
Clear dark brown beer, no head whatsoever. Aroma: sweet caramel, port, some mocha, lots of alcohol, lots of brown sugar. MF: no carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sour start, caramel, mocha, bit fruity, forest fruit jam, red wine, some port. Aftertaste: bit of peated whiskey or smoke, alcohol burning the throat, caramel, some mocha, bitter tannines as in red wine.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Tripel from Huisbrouwerij Sint Canarus 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Brown 33cl stubby bottle, poured into a Westmalle Chalice. I allowed some of the sediment (by mistake) to enter the glass, so the beer took on a slightly hazy look. Old orange peel colour with a crisp white foaming head. A sweetish aroma, apple pie with a caramel crust, mixed with yeast and grapefruit esters, nice! Its best before date was 7th Apr 2012, so it was very fresh when reviewed (4th Nov 2009). It was spritzy and tart, young and refreshing, ageing could well mellow the beer, who knows? The taste was an agreeable blend of what a tripel should taste of; good quality hops, barley and yeasts, brewed in that Belgian way no one else on earth can quiet manage. Considering it has 7.5%ABV within, it didn’t seem to carry an alcoholic kick, you could detect the strenght but it didn’t creep up on you like some tripels I’ve had, nor did it protrude out like a pointed stick. Very easy to drink and put me in the mood for more beers, sadly I had things to do.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 330ml.[ Courtesy of Jan ]. Clear medium orange yellow colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate yeasty, spicy, yeast. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter with a long duration, yeast, fruity, spicy yeast. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120331]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Pours dusty brown with tan head. Nose/taste of toffee, caramel, bread, water taffy, dusty grains and malt. Finishes with a dry gravel mouth feel. Medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Brown 33cl dumpy bottle, best before 23 Apr 2012, been in my stash for some time: opened and reviewed Sunday 22 May 2011. Poured into a Hoegaarden Grand Cru glass: the sediment seemed to stay in the bottle, so my glass was full of a dark reddy brown beer which had a very slight haziness to it. On top a well formed and deep off-white head of tight bubbles. Malty molasses fill the nose, treacle and toffee notes complete the smells I found. Roasted/toasted malty bread taste, with an alcohol undertone. Sweet and tangy, but lacking something when comparing with the better beers within this style. I thought the beer a bit lively and over carbonated, the alcohol was too prominent also, the body not possessing enough strength or complexity to control it. My wife liked this beer more than I did, the malty sweetness winning her over, compared to my more measured overview which pushed it towards more average scores for the style.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy blond colour with massive soapy head and a bud of hop! Aroma has a mild, fresh hop edge. Clean, refreshing taste some green grassy notes and citrusy hop leading to a bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a clear golden with a white head. Fruity, yeasty, phenollic aroma - very Belgian. Solid body, rich on fruit and yeast but appears fairly clean, meaning no real traces of spice. Gets fairly boozy in the finish. 030412