Central City Belgian Abbey Special (Tripel)

Brewed by Central City Brewing
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Surrey, Canada

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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GCBF sample. Bubbly amber. Light foam. Light Belgian nose. Flavour is a bit of toffee and crystallized sugar. Candy sugary aftertaste and alcohol finish.

UPDATED: SEP 23, 2007 Had this on tap at the brewery. I didn’t take notes but it was better than a 2.3 so I’m going to bump the score up a bit closer to what I had out in Surrey.

Cask, GCBF: Bright amber. Candyish, caramelly, bubblegummy aroma. Fairly fizzy and sticky body. Really, really sweet - very candyish. Unbalanced - some ester complexity starts to salvage it, and the malts are obviously quality, but it’s still too sweet. Ar 6 Ap 2 F 4 P 2 O 9 = 2.3

(Draught) Sampled at the Great Canadian Beer Festival 2007 in Victoria on September 7th, 2007. Very sweet nose. Flavour is somewhat vanilla and chrome. Fairly average.