3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 kmweaver (3025) - Santa Rosa, California, USA - AUG 8, 2008
750mL bottle, courtesy of argo0. Thanks, Aaron! Pours a clear, golden color with lots of fine particulates; significant off-white head with good retention and creamy lacing. Lots of white pepper, yeast, and yellow fruits in the aroma. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: honey, yellow fruits, and citrus; lively carbonation; basic, peppery, solid tripel. Medium finish: breadiness, toasty malts, and white pepper; spicy and dry.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20 thornecb (2961) - Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA - JUN 10, 2008
UPDATED: SEP 29, 2008 Pours gold into a snifter. Bright white micro head with good retention leaves sheet lacing as it recedes to skim surface. Lemon, biscuit and candi aromas. Thick biscuit and alcohol from front to back with a lasting yeasty lemon pepper finish.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 SSSteve (2923) - Atlanta, Georgia, USA - AUG 29, 2008
hazy gold under a creamy white head. banana, coriander, sweet creamed corn, and flowers aroma. flavors of delicate banana, yeast, the corn of creaminess, honey, and spices(hint of fresh picked mint leaves). a bit too bubbly, sharp, and carbonated. light bodied. overall its a good one and much better than the dubbel.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 mjs (2865) - Helsinki, FINLAND - SEP 23, 2008
(Bottle at Kaunis Kampela, Helsinki, on 2008-09-23) Orange. Hazy. Very tiny white head. Floral and bit spicy nose. Medium bodied and dryish palate with medium carbonation. Bitterness, hops, floral flavours, frutiness and sweetness. Average.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 Storm (2685) - Amager, DENMARK - JUN 2, 2006
Bottle. Golden hazy colour with a great head. Very fruity aroma of sweetness, fruit and ginger. Flavour of spices, yeast and ends up very dry and bitter.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 SaintMatty (2645) - Uppsala, SWEDEN - SEP 9, 2009
Draught (Brugs Beertje, Brugge) - Hazy golden with a white head. Slightly sweet aroma with hints of apple, pineapple and spice. Spicy and fruity taste with ginger and pineapple. The finish is sweet. Fruity and spicy.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 DanielBrown (2586) - Birmingham (via Leicester), West Midlands, ENGLAND - AUG 9, 2005
Bottle at GBBF 05. Spicy, dry, wheaty aroma. Ditto for the flavour + some sweetness and warmth on the finish. Thick, fizzy mouthfeel. Reasonably good actually, though perhaps too cloying.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20 Swalden28 (2541) - McKinney, Texas, USA - NOV 21, 2008
Bottle thanks to Bu11zeye. Pours a cloudy yellow with white fizzy head. Aroma of some fruit, faint malt, a little bread. Flavor is spicy, fruit, malty, some farmhouse. Palate is medium body, high carbonation. Not bad at all.....
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