Achilles Serafijn Grand Cru

Brewed by Microbrouwerij Achilles
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Heist op den Berg-Itegem, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Hazy orange, large head with good lacing and retention. Aroma is sugary with notes of oranges, yeast, grass, some basement. Medium bodied, quite sweet, a tinge of alcohol in the finish. Decent I guess.

Bottle shared at a tasting at Dancing Camel. Thanks Hansen & Zita for this bottle! Pours orange with a nice head, aroma of grapes, wort, apricot jam and figs, flavor of honey, caramel and dried fruits, medium bodied

Bottle. Unclear amber with small tan head. Aroma is malt, yeast and dried fruits. Flavour is malt, yeast, medium sweet, hops, fruit, little caramel, little bitter with notes of alcohol.

light alcoholic aroma,red/brown,medium sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, oily feel, lively, fizzy, bitter,light alcoholic finish.

Bottle. Head is initially large, frothy/fizzy, off-white, mostly lasting. Body is hazy light to medium amber, bottle conditioned. Aroma is lightly malty (cookie), lightly yeasty (basement, cobwebs), with notes of dried fruits (pineapple, mango), candy sugar, alcohol, and bubble gum. Flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively/fizzy carbonation, moderately alcoholic. Not very characterful or enticing; a generic sweet, fruity Belgian strong ale.

ZBF2008: From tap. Pours clear orange with a dense light tan head. Aroma is mild spiced. Flavour is light phenol and spiced. Mild caramel malt base. Ends with a light yeasty flavour and more phenol.

Bottle. Dark Amber, light head. Great Aroma, spiciness is sweet orange/phenol. Better scent then taste. decent.

draft at Blue Monk, Buffalo. orange copper pour. sweet, caramel & toffee maltiness in both aroma and flavor. Pretty one domensional, little complexity. all about the malts here. OK

Bottle. Poured a heavy amber orange color. Aroma is orange, banana, and lemon zest. Taste is highly carbonated sweet with a lemon zest finish.

Pours a brown hued orange. Nose is kind of syrup like and sweet. Flavor is not very eventful. Nice smooth and even tones. The funk is there. The sugar is very slightly there. It’s decent...but...lacking. This is a Grand Cru? Standard on the mouth, and even a bit thin. This was nice to drink, but certainly nothing unusual or at the least interesting.