2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a cloudy straw yellow with a frothy white head. Aroma is acidic, citrus and yeast. Taste is malt, yeast, apple and citrus. Bready, good beer but lacking somewhat in the palate.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
bottle - Pours hazy yellow with a one finger lingering head. There’s a yeasty, malty, banana accented aroma. The flavor is very similar with a touch of spice. It’s a tasty abbey ale though not an excellent one.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
[2687-20100111] 330mL bottle. Odd sweet rotten fuzzy apple notes amidst the aroma of yeast. Slightly hazy, orange light brown body with a long-lasting foamy white head. Mild fruity yeast peel flavour. Medium body. Drinkable, not my favourite style though, and the alcohol could be hidden better.
(From LCBO; Toronto, ON)
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Pours a slightly cloudy orange/gold, large frothy white head, lacing. Aroma is fruit and slight yeast. Sweet fruit, but not cloying, dominate the flavor, some very subdued notes of dry hops and yeast show up in the middle, finishes somewhat dry, slighlty spicy.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(bottle into tulip) Can you say disappointed? I had some higher expectations for this, given some of what I had sampled from this brewery recently. Unfortunately, this did not really live up to my expectations. Beer poured a pale amber, just a little darker than your usual American macrobrew. A half finger head fell fast, leaving a slight lacing as it did. The nose was a little of everything you would expect from an abbey style, but the alcohol was starting to dominate, which I usually don’t detect over the normal aromas. The taste was rather boring though. All of the usual complexity of an abbey was missing, replaced instead by a general malt sweetness with an alcohol bite. Not a terrible beer, but far from the best out there.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: FEB 7, 2010 Pours bright golden with a thin off-white head. Notes of banana, bubble gum, alcohol, white grape, honey and perfume. Full bodied and alcoholic with lively carbonation. Lovely aromatics but the alcohol is intense.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
2010-01-29 330 ml bottle. yellow colour. BIG white head. lots of carbonation. citrus, hoppy taste, aftertaste is too metallic
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Pours slightly hazy orangeish gold with a huge fluffy white head that lasts ages. Aroma is sweet and fruity with notes of melon, honeydew, cantalope, caramel and yeast. Flavour is very similar: quite sweet and fruity but spicier and with a hint of sourness. Light, tingly mouthfeel with high carbonation and a relatively short sweet finish that also has a slight metallic undertone. Not a bad tripel overall but there are plenty of other ones that I would choose over this that are readily available and similarly priced.
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