3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours clear orange amber with a nice beige head leaving nice lacing. Aroma is fruity, malty, bready, a bit yeasty and sweet. Flavor is malty, a bit phenolic, fruity, alcohol, pungent and bitter. Finishes pungent, malty and bitter.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Shared bottle at RBNAG-11. Pours clear golden with a small white head. Aroma is moderate sweet malts, fruity hops. Fizzy mouthfeel. Taste of peppery malts with some fruity notes, apricot and peach. Long finish.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Hazy amber-orangeish hue, with an off-white head, yeasty fruity nose of peaches, oranges, with note of sweet marmalade, with some candy sugar and honey accents, with a faint coriander spiciness in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, peachy fruity character, with a candied orange peel and marmalade fruitiness, hint of honeyness and candy sugar, with an alcoholic warmth mouthfeel, a subtle Grand Marnier liquorish note, faint floral hop, leading towards a sweet fruit alcoholic, and a mild hop bitterness finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Nice, peachy, deep golden hue, ample, creamy white foam sitting on top.
Big sweetness in the nose, a little sour, too, but full of citric flavors, lemon, orange, apricot, very spicy and spritzy as well, almost too candy-ish in the sweet factor, though.
Taste...a bit sticky on the palate, big, bold peppery flavor, a bit too much so...rather brisk, with a sourness sticking near the sweet...an oddly cloying mouthfeel, laying thick on the tongue and lasting long in the mouth.
This dies off a bit, and it’s a bit easier to take, later on...now, the sweetness is subdued, relaxed, less obnoxious...still, not a spot-on tripel like we’d like...hard to peg this attempt at a tripel, as it doesn’t quite nail it, but you’ve got to like it for trying, at least.
Gorgeous bottle, though...
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle thanks to funkybrewster. thought i’d rated this before but i guess not... Pours as it should, very rich golden with a fine frothy white head. Aroma is very pleasant, honey and fresh dough, light noble hops, touch biscuit/crack like though. Flavor is not so appealing, sweet, boozy, doughy, stale crackers, estery. Bigger bodied, with fluffy mouthfeel, bit chewy, sticky, chalky. This one might be best totally fresh... and maybe a bit more hopped up! I don’t know...
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Draught somewhere in Chicago:
This is a nice refreshing beer. Lambic/champagne finish and very fruity. A pleasure to drink in the hot humid Chicago summer weather.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
22 oz. bottle. Pours a clear orange amber color with a large creamy ivory head. The aroma and flavor have a large candy sweetness with some citrus and peach fruitiness. The spices come through and add some pop to the fruity flavors. There is also a decent level of bitterness that is works well with everything else going on. Medium bodied with good carbonation.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Golden appearance with a moderate head. The flavor is very acidic like heartburn in a bottle. A very sour flavor is present. Lemons and more lemons. More decent stuff from Avery.
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