Captain Lawrence Xtra Gold

Rerate. 750mL bottle, batch 1, courtesy of yobdoog. Thanks, dude! Pours a slightly hazy golden color with very fine particulates; fluffy, textured white head with gorgeous retention and lacing that sticks; a beautiful pour. The aroma on this is phenomenol: tons of honey, fruit, dough, and a fantastic yeast character; a slight bit of orange / tropical / citrus bitterness coming through, even now; reminiscent of a perfectly aged bottle of Dulle Teve; near-perfect. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: honey, bread, complex yeastiness, white pepper: so many excellent, dense tripel qualities coming through, but not basic dry and peppery: instead there’s the nice addition of plenty of well-integrated fruit (tropical & citrus, mostly); bananas; incredibly dense, layered feel; pleasant dryness; relaxed hoppiness compared to the batch 3 jasonp shared; less sticky and better integrated; this is potentially the best tripel I’ve ever had. Lengthy finish, showing plenty of dough and toasted malts; pleasant end. Good lord, Scott. 9.5.9.5.18=4.6

750mL bottle, batch 3, courtesy of jasonp. Thanks, Jason! Pours a bright, slightly hazy honey-golden color; solid white head with great retention and lacing; pretty pour. Pleasant resiny citrus and minerals and yeast in the aroma; quite fresh and dense. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: plenty of citrus and minerals and tropical fruits; very nice hop character over a dry, dense Belgian core: yeast, white pepper, and honey. Lengthy finish, showing citrus and honey and yeast; some zesty hops at the end. 8.4.8.4.15=3.9

750 ml bottle. Pours a hazy golden with amber notes and a large frothy lacing white head. Great looking Tripel. Aroma of green apples, various mixed citrus, vanilla, some American hops, Belgian yeast esters, candy sweet maltiness, tropical fruits Flavor of yeast, green apple, some earthiness, corriander, honey, peppery, orange peel, hops, dry and alcohol well hidden, tingly carbonation. I’m really diggin the whole working American hops into the Belgian Ales.

2006 Bottle. Hazy gold / straw pour with some white head. Aroma is citrusy, some sweet malt, sugar, and a little spice. The flavor is very balanced, so much that it’s hard to point to a dominating flavor. It’s a mix of sweet malt, sugar, a little earthy malt, spices, and citrus. It was good.

Bottle of the 2006 vintage courtesy of golubj. Poured a hazy gold color with smallish white head. Aroma of citrus, sweet sugar, bread and some spice. Flavor was similar. Not overly tasty with some fruit and citrus. Alcohol was well hidden. Pretty tasty beer; interested to see how the apple brandy barrel aged version would taste.

Bottled in 2005. Pours a hazy yellow with a large white diminishing head. Quite sweet. Some amarillo notes but none of that fresh amarillo aromas I love... Not that it should be expected in a bottle from 2005. Light alcohol notes but LOTS of honey wityh a hint of raisins. Medium to full bodied with a very lively carbonation. Dry finish. Quite interesting brew.

Found this in a somewhat local bottle shop and was delighted. Pours out light golden color with a moderate white foamy head. Aroma is of some fruit, namely apple, some citrus and slight hoppy notes. Flavor is complex, nice fruits, slight spice, yeast with slight vinous notes. The finish is dry with some hoppy/alcoholic notes on the finish. I liked this one.

Thanks to dmac621 for shipping this nice tripel my way. Pours golden with a good sized fizzy white head. The aroma is very authentic tripel with rich sweet pale malt, musty cobwebs and light cotton candy. Medium / full body with some crispness and sharp carbonation that’s only on the finish. The flavor starts with full rich malt with spicy fruity hop taste drying things out and lots of spice in there. The finish is dry and lightly papery with spicy hops. A well crafted tripel.

Big lasting fluffy white head on a pale golden body; Peach and ripe apple in a pleasant but not really complex nose, the alcohol is a little to present; A little to big to big bubbled carbonation in balanced and complex enough body, big with an alcohol bite; Quite long finish with a strange bitter bite and a little yeasty harshness. When you look at the different parts of this beer, it is strange, but all in all this is actually a quite good very drinkable beer.