Captain Lawrence Xtra Gold

Brewed by Captain Lawrence Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Elmsford, New York USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Nice golden color; Medium slightly creamy body; Aroma of yeast, floral hops, some honey, & citrus; Flavor of slight sweet malt, yeast, floral hops, citrus/fruit, some caramel, and spice; Dry finish; Nicely balanced; Well done.

75 cl bottle.
Originally rated on 20110218.
Pours golden color with a small head. Aroma of citrus fruits, yeast, some hops, spices and toffee. Flavor of toffee, citrus fruits, yeast and hay.

Firkin at Real Ale. I’ve had this dozens of times out of bottle but I’ve never had it so fresh and hoppy. Nose of pineapple, honey, sweet hay. So smooth for 10%. Really good.

This review is exported from olutopas.info with no comment. Original rating date 18.2.2011

Golden colour, off-white head. Fruity aroma, somewhat sweet, light sickly, acetone, nail polish remover, malts, some tropical fruits. Sweet flavour, light sickly, malts and honey. Quite low carbonation, sickly, sweet finish.
Not my favourite.
(From 75cL bottle @ ZZT VI. Courtesy of DutchDrebus. Thanks for sharing, Dré!)

Bottle @ Kiss The Kitchen Floor or better known as ZZT VI (2013): kindly shared by DutchDrebus: Medium sized white head which changes quick into a lacing on top of a hazy yellow colored beer. Aromas of hops, citrus, honey, soap, apples and a hint of peach. Flavours of tea, herbs, hops, soap, apples, hint of something light smokey, light bitter and some malts. Aftertaste is malts with apples, light bitter and light floral. Low to medium carbo, soft light dry mouthfeel, medium body and a light creamy texture. It’s nice hoppy, it’s ok, but not more than that.

serious gusher - foam is still oozing out of the bottle 20 minutes after i poured the first glass.

hazy gold with a big foamy white head. body is medium, which is very unusual for a beer with this level of wild yeast presence, as somehow some of the long-chain sugars must have survived. carbonation is obviously quite high.

aroma: orval yeast character (slightly sour with some mild brett notes), some dry grassy notes from probable wild yeast, sweet rich pale malts, a sharp saison-like citrus note, and tropical hop character.

taste: pleasant malty sweetness is buried by rather unpleasant wild yeast and brett character (rubber, bandaid, dank moldy basement, gym socks). the hops come through pretty clear with what seems would be a nice clean bitterness and citrusy tropical notes if not overshadowed by funk.

i’m not going to finish more than a couple ounces of this, which sucks because it’s a big bottle and wasn’t cheap, and i brought this home from a recent trip up north and was really looking forward to enjoying it.

Sampled from bottle @ ZZT VI. Hazy yellow to light orange color, small off-white head. Smell malts, fruitiness of orangepeel. Taste malts, orangepeel, fruitiness, some alcohol and lightly sweet. Nice! Medium to full body, medi carbonation.

Bottle @ ZZT VI thx to me. Golden colour, small head. Smells malts, hops, sweet, fresh. Tastes herbs, malts, sweet, fresh. Don’t really like it. Medium body, heavy carbo.

UPDATED: JAN 22, 2013 Pour out of 750 mL bottle, hazy orange pour with nice fluffy white head, lots of carbonation but pretty fine, aroma brought notes of nice hops, with notes of orange, peach, pear, hints of pineapple, touch of grapefruit, nice lemon notes as well, hints of white grape, as well from the yeast, slight yeasty notes as well with a touch of cardamom, hints of biscuit. Taste is a mix of sweet peach, pear, white grape, nice orange, grapefruit and lemon notes mix into some grass, biscuit and yeasty notes, finishing fairly sweet, slightly bitter, dry. Nicely brewed beer.