8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Very spicy aroma is full of yeast, white pepper, coriander. Firm maltiness on the palate, with light spice, lots of yeast and a healthy alcohol finish. Very good tripel, impeccable balance.
Tried
on 01 Jan 2005
at 12:16
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Extremely black. Sweet, candyish nose. Malty with clean, rounded mouthfeel. Mealy with notes of coffee. Rather discrete.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2004
at 06:26
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled. Copper colour, rich lasting head. Flowery nose. Sweet and bready with lots of caramel. Soft and very malty with somewhat syrupy mouthfeel. Salty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2004
at 06:23
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled, thanks Rastacouere! Hazy pale amber. Sweet and almondy. Rich, very malty, some orange and bananaish yeast character. Very flavourful, but too sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2004
at 06:20
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Hazy amber, rich lively head. Yeasty, orangey aroma. Medium sweet and pleasantly malty with soft, dense mouthfeel, Flavours of orange and grand marnier. Very drinkable. A thoroughly pleasant and flavourful beer. To achieve true greatness I miss some complexity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2004
at 10:55
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Prohibited in the US, huh? Damn French cows just can’t get a break. First their raw milk cheese gets the snub and now their milk stout. Black body with volumous light brown head. Slight milk chocolate and vietnamese coffee aroma. The milk and sugar theme continues in the moderate, smooth body with simple milk chocolate flavours. There’s a slight toffee note, maybe some almonds, but they don’t linger. On a to-style basis, this beer would have to score higher, because they’ve hit all the marks, but I’m still waiting for a true milk stout that shows me something besides the basics. There must be potential in the style for more than just smooth milk chocolate.
Tried
from Can
on 27 May 2004
at 22:35
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Huge dense cream head; hazy foxy-amber beer. Nose gives double cream, maybe touch of diacetyl, right kind of English hops with fruity aromas (pear, lime,...) Creamy taste, like thick home-made ice cream, but with a British hop flavouring (sounds terrible, is quite OK!) Unfortunately, the flavour falls away quite quickly, leaving just the mouthfeel: thick, creamy, slightly slick without losing all its refreshing qualities. Above all, I have to disagree with a lot of other tasters about this beer’s style. Its taste is definitely British - they ought to take a good CAMRA tour of Britain. But what probably misleads them is the MOUTHFEEL, with its thick, pappy, filling roundness typically Belgian indeed. That doesn’t make it a Belgian ale yet. Thanks, MartinT!
Tried
on 17 May 2004
at 14:47
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Huge orange coloured head, fast dwindling, above a beer, the perfect colour of apricotskin. Blasts of coriander out of the glass remind me of an industrial kitchen preparing soup. Yeasty, meaty aromas complete the picture. Spicey, leafy, soupy taste, dominated by coriander. Completely unidimensional because of this dominance. The beer-base tries to get from underneath, with some apparently good malt, but it’s no use. Well-bodied. Slightly oily, nearly fatty mouthfeel. One of the few good things about "witbier" IMO, is that it can be (citrussy) refreshing. No way with this corianderextract. It *has* character - but not one I want to marry.
Tried
from Can
on 17 May 2004
at 14:07
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A very fruity nose of lemons, bananas, grapefruity nose. Smooth mouth, mildly sour with hints of lemon and grapefruit. However, the finish was a little unbalanced, giving a slightly acidic sharpness combined with a lemon dryness.
Tried
on 30 Apr 2004
at 17:13
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
The nose was interesting with green apples, chocolate, earthy notes and just a hint of cotton candy. The taste is of green apples, sour malt and an astringent finish. To me it seemed like a brown ale, but maybe I am out of it.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Apr 2004
at 17:12