4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Very good belgian ale. Sweet, warm but still unique and complex taste.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
AROMA: nuts, sweet fruit, hint of floral
APPEARANCE: brown, clear, poors rocky head, slowly turns into minimal head
TASTE: light sweetness, lightly bitter
PALATE: full body, creamy, fizzy, bitter, long hoppy aftertaste
OVERALL: another wonderful trappist with a complex set of aromas and perfectly balanced sweetness and bitterness. The creamy body is so good it is hard to put the glass down.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle, poured a nice head, lots of smells of dates and dark fruits. taste is has dates and has a bit of life, bit of grass in there. Interesting beer. good offering
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Details: 33cl bottle,nearly two years old.
Tasting notes: Pours a lively hazy darkbrown/red beer with a tight white head that sticks nicely to the glass. Aroma is moderately sweet and fruity, caramel, candied pears, nuts. Very aromatic and complex. The flavor is sweet, fruity, malty and ends in a slight dry hoppy finish. Very smooth mouthfeel. Carbonisation is a bit too harsh for my personal taste.
Conclusion: A tastefull and well balanced beer.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours dark brown with generous head. Aroma is Belgian yeast, candy, and a little citrus sour. Taste is bread, candy, citrus, and maybe a little grape. Really, really good, as you’d expect from a Trappist classic.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
12 Sept 2011, bottle. dark walnut color, hazy, thick foamy head that fades fast. there’s a tartness to the alcohol. alcohol is dominant over a maltiness that is, for lack of a better descriptor, bready. full body and fizzy. tiny bubbles foam up in your mouth. lots of beery alcohol in the taste. tastes sweeter than it smells. still a tartness. maybe there is a fruity sweetness. really hard to place this. i like it though.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Vague scent and taste of yeast, malt, brown sugar and citrus. A nice beer with a smooth flavor that is easy to drink but also somewhat undifferentiated, the flavors do not really fall into place.
3.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Poured into a snifter from a bottle. Appearance is a dense brown with a thick, fluffy beige head of foam. Nice rings of lacing as the beer disappears. Aroma is sweet, malts. Fresh cut grass also makes an appearance very faintly along with some roasted nuts and toffee. Taste is much more complex than the aroma indicated. I pick up on some grapes, wine barrel perhaps, woodsy, sweet and dry caramel alcohol mixture. I keep noticing a grape kool-aid flavor here as well. This is definitely an interesting beer to say the least. Medium to full body, thick texture, soft carbonation and a long, drawn out finish.
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