MiP (20366) reviewed Charlie Dry Hopped Tripel from Charliebier 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 8%. Fruity, yeasty, dusty aroma. Cloudy golden colour. Good stable creamy white head. The flavour is fruity, dusty and chalky. Perhaps a little floral hop note. Peppery alcohol. Some alcohol bitterness.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Charlie Blond from Charliebier 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
The ordinary blonde in this series of Belgian beers, developed in Limburg by a guy obsessed with Charlie Chaplin apparently, hence the name. Snow white, foamy, thick and dense, cobweb-lacing head, clear pure yellow-golden robe with lively sparkling, misty with sediment. Aroma initially dominated by stingy carbon dioxide, quickly shifting to banana peel, coriander seed, cold potato mash, cold pasta, overcooked kale (DMS), grass, clove, raw black radish. Sweetish onset, some banana ester mixed with green pear, very sharply carbonated even for this style, with numbing effect; smooth cereally, bit white-bready maltiness, thinnish and very basic, bit grainy, flanked by some light soapy and spicy coriander accents and grassy hop bitterishness, which eventually becomes rather long and rooty. Meanwhile, retronasal aromas of old radish peel and cooked beans appear, downgrading my enjoyment of this beer quite a lot. Dull Belgian blonde, of a kind we have way too many moving around already, with a somewhat stale and vegetable-like aspect to it which is anything but attractive. Redundant at best.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Charlie Dry Hopped Tripel from Charliebier 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Thick, creamy head, lightly yellowish over hazy orangey golden beer, lively carbonated to texbook lace. Bit diary nose, pale malts, white candi sugar, slightly spicy hops, garden weeds. Quite dry initially, toasted malts, hints at caramel; again weeds, spices (pepper). Arachide, fatty acids. Light but sharpish metallic bitter surrounding. Bit slick, very lively carbonation, seems not attenuated in full. This impression increases in the aftertaste, which becomes pretty sweetish. Dry-hopping a tripel can't be a bad idea. Only, the basic beer here isn't exactly Westmalle... Thanks to Stef!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hazy blond colour, white foam. Nose of banana, yeast, some fruitiness, light diacetyl. Taste is medium sweet, light fruity, some diacetyl.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Charlie Blond from Charliebier 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Clear blond colour, white foam. Nose of cereals, cow fodder, sweet malt. Tastes like a fortified pils. Unbalanced, not my taste.