4.6 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
just got back from cl brewing shared with bastard dead guy and 2 others you can smell the apples when you crack it you can nose the hops right away under the apple the brandy is very up front on this. Alcohol warmth is very nice glad that i shared this one with 6 peps as a foot note sorry adam you missed another one i just couldnt wait
4.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Extremely smooth candy apple taste. Heavy bodied but clean. Drinks really smooth.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Boy Howdy! This is good stuff. Bottle from Whole Foods Bowery. Lots of nice notes of the apple brandy in the nose, and a wonderful underlining of the brandy in the taste as well. I could drink this stuff all day. I love it.
4.5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
First off - what a phenomenal place with very friendly people and an incredible atmosphere. Truly top-notch.
Beer pours a cloudy medium copper with a nice mildly off white head with a HUGE aroma of the applejack liquor.
Immediate taste of apples, applejack, oak and their American tripel - as familiar with their extra gold.
This is an incredible beer, that has amazing potential to age. The only downfall is with the big alcohol taste that is present in the palate. However, this does not get in the way of the beer. I feel this will age incredible well in time to come.
If you have the chance to try this beer, you must - Cheers to a great beer and to the great people involved in brewing it!
4.5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: FEB 17, 2008 Nice golden pour. Nose is mostly apples and alcohol. A very warming tripel with apple flavors in the aftertaste. Has a spicy oak flavor to the apples. Tastes like a roasted apple with brandy flavoring. Quite an interesting beer, will drink this one again. Can’t wait to try it about 6 months from now.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: DEC 27, 2010 Courtesy of hbmason
Bottle: The aroma consists of strong apple, light tropical fruits, grapefruit, and a hint of vanilla. I really dig the aroma. It pours a hazy dull gold with a large creamy white head with excellent retention and lacing...a very impressive looking beer. The flavor starts with tropical fruits and light apple. The alcohol is there if you really look for it, but it’s hidden rather well. The finish has some light lemon tartness and faint grapefruit. Medium bodied with somewhat lively, but soft, carbonation.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: NOV 28, 2008 Rerate at one year old. Deep cloudy golden beer, thin white head. Aroma is quite different from a year ago. Oaky vanilla and a light pale Belgian maltiness. Light apple aroma as well, but it seems quite muted. Flavour is fairly boozy still, but it does seem a little less overtly hot. A lightly spicy yeastiness. It’s a pretty interesting brew, but I think it was better fresh.
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Burnished golden coloured beer with a thick white head. Aroma is quite spicy. Loads of vineous sweet oak, vanilla bean over a soft apple spiciness. Clove, cinnamon and a light toffeeish sweetness. Peppery and lightly alcoholic aroma. Yeast spiciness with a very vineous character. Flavour is soft and very well-integrated, toasted oak, light caramel (toasted wood) and vanilla. Apple and brandy vineousness throughout. A soft herbal/minty spiciness on the back. Cooling finish. As it warms, there is more spice that comes to the fore, especially cinnamon/clove and a soft appleskin tannic character. Another excellent brew from Captain Lawrence.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
750 ml bottle purchased at Captain Lawrence. After my experience with the Ten Fidy on Friday, I was a little nervous trying another beer that I was very excited about. This time, however I was not disappointed. Pours almost the color of apple cider with a few floaties with a thin whitish head that faded to a film after about one-third of a glass. Very pleasant aroma of fresh apples and oak. The flavor I thought was amazing with apples, oak, vanilla, caramel and just a hint of spice (cloves I think). Really superb. Very nice buttery mouthfeel reminiscent of a good chardonnay. There is some alcohol present, but at 10% abv, I thought it was fairly well restrained. Overall, an excellent beer and worth the wait!
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
This poured a cloudy darker yellow to orange color with a cream colored head. I beleive this bottle was a bit old so the hops were gone, which just left an underlying tripel with notes of candy sugar and yeast, married with delicious apple flavors, which were not overwhelming at all. Flavor was much the same, the apple flavor was perfect, definitely there but not fake at all. A great tripel with an interesting take.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Yeah, draft at the Dutch today with lunch. Apple brandy? bit more on the whiskey side in both phenolic nose and biting wood. An eye opener. Truly a brew to be a bit wary of. 10% is for real. Hoppy and whiskey bite are not toned down. (Ours go to eleven). While a fine, fine experience, one was enough for this young man.
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