Captain Lawrence Xtra Gold

Goddammit. Fucking skunked. Aroma is skunky, apples. As it warms the skunked aroma goes away, but it still smells pretty nice besides that. Taste is skunky, more apples, sweet fizzy fruitiness. Some paper in this, dryness. Very solid. Lots of hops. I wish this was not skunked. Well, crafted, not-alcoholic. Just a shame they use green bottles. -- need a fresh, unskunked re-rate

750mL Bottle. Puckered apple skin aroma, light waft of coconut meat and Chinese five spice. Delicate, floral and spring-like. Misty. Pours a brilliant deep honey gold, with a soft, off-white, opalescent head above. Flavor is a rich Belgian candi, backed with lemon, savory Mediterranean spice, and herbs. Oregano and thyme peak past light acid note. Great body. Fresh. Lively. Hops don’t really show, they just add to the yeast and malt fiasco. Somewhat savory. Light and dry. Crisp. A delightful rendition, with good yeast character. I’m just not getting through to the hops as much as I would have anticipated, but it’s a nice beer. Alcohol hides well. The smack reveals more hop leaf, but it comes as a bit of an afterthought by then. Great character all around. Maybe not as complex as I would have expected, but delicious nonetheless.

Bottle, from someone via trade. This one has been sitting in my garage (aka "the cellar") for a long time. With all the talk of hops in this beer, I feared that waiting so long to drink this would have been a mistake. So, its Thursday night, and I don’t have to be back at work for 11 days, so tonight my wife and I popped this one. Super carbonated pour. Really fruity, floral aroma. Flavor is deep, rich, fruity and powerful. Very well done, actually reminds me of De Dolle Teve, one of my favorite beers. I really didn’t get much hop flavor in this one. A little too much heat for me, but otherwise, excellent.

Shared at Cleveland tasting 3/15 Batch 1 I think, Bottle: Pours a clear copper with a white head. Aroma, yeast, some fruits, sweet bready malts, floral notes. Flavor, spices, yeasty notes, bready malts, floral hops on the finish.

Bottle shared at Cleveland tasting. Not sure by who. Notes are starting to get a bit foggy! Hah...Poured a hazy gold. Taste was sweet honey, and spicey (cloves?) and some citrus.

Pours with a cloudy, golden body topped by a medium thick, white head with some lacing. It’s slightly sweet with notes of honey and a nice grassy bitter note. Medium body, well carbonated and warming.

Thoe color is a bit a clear with orange tints with some suspended matter but not much. There is a thin head the stays atop the tulip glass with some spotted lacing along the sides. The nose has an extreamly overwhelming pineapple esters with a strong hop finish. You can reall smell the pine and citrus hops with other tropical hints. The flavor has a strong initial hop bitterness as well as booze all over the tounge and side walls of your mouth. The nice after flavor of tropical fruits mainle pineapple, hints of mango and grapefruit linguired in my mouth long after i had drank the beer. I personally like the honey sweet finish that is just as bitter as the first sip.

Pours a slightly hazed golden colour with a one finger, frothy head that leaves spots of lace. There is a musty, spicy aroma with notes of pine, topical fruit (mostly pineapple ester), clovey yeast and honey, as advertised. The flavour is extermely hoppy compared to traditional tripples, but most american interpretations are. It’s crisp and refreshing, very fruity and has a pleasant bitterness in the finish that isn’t a wallop of hops. It’s medium bodied and effervescently carbonated, but not too much so, like Duvel, for example. Very nice offering from my local brewery.