3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
750ml bottle from By the Bottle in Vancouver, WA--Poured a rich, ruby-chestnut body with a full beige head. Yeastiness, hoppiness, and sweet maltiness prevailed on this beer. Lots of aroma and fruity complexities. Effervescent mouthfeel, but not over the top. Gritty, full-bodied texture. Great hoppy profile. Spicy yet easy on the palate. I could drink this all day.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours a cloudy brown with massive head. Aromas are fruity, yeasty and sweet. Flavor is pretty darn nice, but mouthfeel is thinner than I expected. ABV makes itself known with a little bit of a warmth that seeps through the thick fruit and candi sugar sweetness that dominates the palate until the yeast flavors can take you down the home stretch.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: JUL 6, 2004 Not a great belgian. Chimay have lacked quality in recently outings. Certainly a drinkable beer however.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a dark brownish amber color with a creamy tan head. Aroma of raisins, plums and caramel. Flavor is mildly sweet and mildly bitter, very well balanced. Creamy texture, lively carbonation. Good beer.
4.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
09/01 premiere bottle: Pours deep amber-brown with almost cloudy look to it. Huge foaming tight beige head, half of it dissapeared rather quickly though, decent retention of the rest. Dark fruit aroma with a hint of smoke/roasted grains to it. Complex taste, very fruity and sweet but beautifully balanced. Hints of spice/clove to it as well. Lovely smooth full mouthfeel. Hint of alcohol as you get further into it, Top drop.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Very nice. Yeasty with a touch of fruitiness. Good, not my favorite trappist, but still worth a try
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a cloudy, dark reddish brown color with an off white, dingy yellowish quickly diminishing head, and floating yeasty sediment. Has a fruity, sweet, and sour nose similar to a flemish sour ale. (at least liefman goudenband) Initial taste strikes me as fairly dry and bland and then opens up into a spiced fruitiness, with a clove-like coriander flavor with an almost dull numbing effect. This could also be the intense over carbonation that almost strips and dries the tongue. Overall, quite drinkable for a fairly high alcohol beer, but I’m not a big fan of the clove spiced flavors in this and in hefeweizens.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours amberish-red with a thin, foamy, mostly receding tan head. Aroma of clove, light toffee, mildly fruity yeast. Taste is yeasty, fruity, toffee, clove, and bubble gum. Mouthfeel is medium bodied and foamy with lush carbonation. Quite enjoyable, but not stellar.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
A little less than the blue for me. Deep copper color, sweet, nice malt flavor.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Brown in color with ruby highlights. Aroma is of sugar, sweet malts, plums and figs. Taste is of sweet malt, light hops, fruit, and yeast.
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