3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20 beermatrix (1497) - Twin Cities, USA - JAN 9, 2006
Yellow jello with a small cap of white dawning the top for a brief stay. A thinnly bubbled collar remains and lace is minimal with thin looping strings.
Stank, dark, old, past its prime citrus sitting in a basement aroma. Quite musty with a dryish yeast is prevalently upfront on this one and without much complexity. Gains an alcoholic plastic/elastic nudge as it warms.
Taste is tropical and deeply musted with candy coated yeasty dryness. Its quite a ride really. Some off areas in balance, the front and middle are the better areas. Kinda peachy, drafted with the fuzz from the skins right in there. Some old pineapple, red appley, and yellow raisin, or maybe, were once grapes but now are raisins because they’ve been sittin’ a little too long. Ya know what I mean? The finish is drab and overstated with too much yeastyness, totally flattening out the once, interesting mixtures of over-ripe, not so ripe, tropical fruity tones and candyish malts.
Feel is smooth and quick with some very floating silkyness in a few areas where the malts do their thing. Carbonation is on the lighter side getting better as it warms; as it should.
A good brew with a few areas that made it less distinguished and impressionable then most of the Belgian Goldens out there. A good old fashion American try that works in most ways, but perhaps a bit understated and less complex then it could be.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20 porterhouse (1542) - Alna, Maine, USA - MAY 24, 2012
(22 oz. from Grain and Vine) Pours gold/orange/amber with a thin, lightly amberish off-white head. Aroma is sweet, a little bready with some light spice and caramel. Mouthfeel is light, soft, sticky. Flavor is sweet balanced with bitter, light caramel, spice, bread and fruit. A little hot in the finish.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20 Smurf2055 (380) - Seattle, Washington, USA - MAY 15, 2012
Pours hazy blond with a couple fingers head, smell is apple, cinnamon, belgium yeast sweetness, taste is fruity, clove, gum, bit of alcohol, very inoffensive, good beer.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20 kjohns (109) - North Dakota, USA - MAY 1, 2012
Clear light golden pour with thin off-white head. Fruity aroma of peach and apricot with some spice notes - pretty nice. Taste begins with a big dose of spicy Belgian yeast followed by some sweet fruitiness and just a hint of bready malt and finishes with just a very slightly bitter aftertaste. Creamy mouthfeel with moderate carbonation. Pretty decent overall.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 bpr77 (121) - Kansas City, Missouri, USA - APR 28, 2012
Pourd clear golden and orange head dissapates quickly spicy aroma of clove, nutmeg, and bread flavor is sweet with spicy notes of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg. Hint of banana in the flavor too finishes clean interesting beer not a huge fan of cinnamon in this belgian too spicy for this style for me to enjoy
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20 ChiefBeer12 (51) - Irvine, California, USA - APR 26, 2012
Bottle. Strong bread, yeast, banana, ripe fruit on the nose. Pours golden with thin white head that lasts, good lacing. Flavor is Belgian all the way, sweet, bready, fruits and strong cloves at the onset. Good palate, decently long lasting.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20 bergstaden (500) - Røros, NORWAY - APR 24, 2012
Golen with a white head - sweet flower/fruit aroma - taste is of caramel malt with some spicy/fruity notes - nice spicy finish - nice
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20 mcmisko (273) - New York, USA - APR 20, 2012
Pour gold with small white head. Smells like golden fruits, flowers, and a little spice. Taste is big and complex with notes of flowers, apricot, banana, sweets malts, spices, yeast and hops. Med-full bodied. After taste has cinnamon, malts and dry hopped. Hop presence is big, but not too bitter. Cinnamon is pretty obvious and creates a lot of warming on the tongue. Good, interesting, and balanced beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 GothGargoyle (273) - Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA - APR 12, 2012
Appearance is clear golden with a pale head that leaves behind some nice lacing. Aroma is peach, apricot, marmalade, pear, hint of wet hay. Reasonable body, slightly syrupy mouthfeel, sweet on the palate with a little bitterness in the finish. Taste is stone fruits, honey, citrus. Seems quite like a Belgian Tripel.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20 HenryXXX (60) - British Columbia, CANADA - APR 12, 2012
The beer pours a golden straw color with white head. The nose smells of floral apricots, subtle spice, perhaps coriander and nutmeg and hints of cinnamon. The Flavors starts with a little barnyard, followed by a sweet apricot the middle has a touch of bitterness and finishes with a off dry sweet flavor.
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3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20 Lilja (174) - Malmö, SWEDEN - APR 12, 2012
Fruktig, rund och fin smak av aprikos och apelsin samt belgisk jäst. Den vi drack var lagrad 1 år vilket gjorde smaken mer balanserad. 3,7p
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