6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured from 473mL can (finally found the missing year as a single; has a little age on it now, and not in the recipe-sense). Clear-ish amber gold with small white head. Definitely getting some crystal and caramel malt on the nose with a very feint citrus note. Taste is a touch muted with same malts being most dominant, feint breadiness and a mild dry bitter floral hop background character. Interesting historical beer. Phenols as it warms - lowered rating.
Tried
from Can
from
The Gull Liquor Store
on 25 Aug 2025
at 22:39
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16oz @ Ryan's (thx for the beer!) shared with Farees.
Aroma: banana and clove, some flowers.
Taste: full-bodied, nice esters.
Overall: pretty good.
Aroma: banana and clove, some flowers.
Taste: full-bodied, nice esters.
Overall: pretty good.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Aug 2025
at 01:46
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Poured from 473mL can. Clear blonde gold with white head. Feint belgian yeast and esters with just a hint of phenols, a bit of wheat and spices, slightly fruity character, okay.
Tried
from Can
from
Jak's Beer-Wine-Spirits - New Westminster
on 01 Aug 2025
at 01:00
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
750mL bottle, pours a cloudy golden orange with a medium white head. Aroma has plenty of esters, some clove, and lightly spicy Belgian yeast. Flavour has some spicy Belgian yeast, a touch of clove, light-moderate esters, and a touch of oxidation. Not the most expressive yeast profile, and the flavour profile comes across rather dull, but it’s a step above the average North American Belgian-style beer.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Tinhouse Brewing
on 09 Jul 2025
at 07:58
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
473mL can, pours a hazy golden orange with a medium white head. Nose doesn’t bring out an authentically tripel character – there’s some clove, maybe some banana, as advertised, but those are hefeweizen notes, so this already seems dubious given that the brewer advertises notes that do not characterize this as a typical tripel. I digress… beyond that, there’s light spicy yeast, and some low-level phenols (not exactly of the burnt rubber character). Flavour is very fruity, with lots of orange marmalade, some esters, a touch of vinous character almost, citrus, and some candi sugar. Well, this is anything but a classical tripel, but there’s definitely some nice flavour cohesion and even complexity here. Pretty good.
Tried
from Can
from
Legacy Liquor Store
on 04 Jul 2025
at 04:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from 473mL can. Clear-ish yellow with white head. Quite dry, mild corn malt, feint Belgian yeast quality, neutral bittering hops. Wondering if the age allowed it to dry out more. Decent.
Tried
from Can
from
The Gull Liquor Store
on 16 Jun 2025
at 02:28
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Poured from 375mL bottle. Hazy dull amber gold with minimal white head. Bit of an odd combination of apple, feint phenols, and Belgian yeast. Okay.
Tried
from Bottle
from
The Gull Liquor Store
on 29 May 2025
at 07:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Orangey amber, low carbo, thin head. Generally sweet beer, the cedar providing more of a herbal, woody accent but not bitterness. So it’s a sticky gruit sort of thing with low level plastic phenols.
Tried
on 22 May 2025
at 03:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
473 ml can. Pours amber with moderate head. Aromas of soft belgian yeast, mineral water, bready malts and a little sulphur. Flavors of fruity esters dominating Belgian yeast, wine gums, candied citrus and bready malts. A nice iteration though more malty and sweet than I’d expect for the style.
Tried
from Can
from
The Gull Liquor Store
on 12 May 2025
at 23:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Poured from 473mL can. Clear gold with small white head. Mild brett, oak, quite minerally. Softer brett and oak compared to the 1754. Thinner bodied finish. Okay.
Tried
from Can
from
Jak's Beer-Wine-Spirits - New Westminster
on 12 May 2025
at 03:57