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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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

On tap at Central City Brew Pub. Pours yellow/gold. Aroma of apple juice, candied sugar and yeast. Flavour predominantly of apples, but also pear and candied sugar. Lively carbonation yet soft on the tongue after a couple of seconds too. Quite sweet. Nice Belgian Trippel.

Tap at St. Augustine. Very pale golden pour with a tight creamy white head. The nose is lightly wheaty and very estery. A sweet candy sugar aroma and flavour. Spicy but the spiciness is quite restrained. Fruity with lots of peach and pear as well as a touch of light fruitiness as well. It’s too sweet but it’s not at all malty - which at least means they get the yeast side of things right but something went awry during the fermentation. Soft and reasonably drinkable - but only in a small quantity. Almost honeyish on the back.

Sampled as Red racer belgian triple at GCBF 2010 Hazy Golden lacing head Low on aroma Sparkly mf, medium body. Citric start Belgian yeast doesn’t quite come together

GCBF 2010. Slightly hazy golden yellow. Lemony estery aroma, faint band-aid phenols. Chewy pale malt palate, citrus and spice character, full bodied, not very complex.

Sampled at GCBF ’10, pours hazy yellow (odd for a Belgian Strong Ale) with a white head. Aroma and flavour of green apples, sweet fruits, yeast and citrus. Quite decent.

UPDATED: JUL 11, 2009 an easy to drink stong belgian pours a light amber wiht a light fuity aroma. enjoyable and cheap

burnt fruit, yeast aroma. Pours a cloudy amber with thin head. Raisins, sweetness, alcohol finish.

UPDATED: MAR 13, 2008 Growler: Poured a dark copper with a very thin head. Sweet alc. aroma with a buttery caramel candy smell and an over-ripe apricot fruitiness. Bit thin on the palate I thought but general Belgian taste. Sweet malt flavour with a minor balanced bitterness and a sticky alc. finish that warms you as the beer warms.

Hazy amber,fast fading head.Alcohol nose with muted banana/apricot.Taste of malt,brown sugar,bananas,med alc heat. Flat/lifeless

Amber colour with not much head. Bubble gum aroma. Not a bad tasting beer however my palate may just be happy I stepped away from the hops for a bit. Spicy yeast, sweet slightly bitter finish. GCBF.