3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Date: July 30, 2010
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: clear gold, wispy off white head, streaks of lace
Aroma: sweet malt candy aroma, light fruityness, touch of spicyness
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, touch of fruity sweetness, light phenolic spicyness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+ /4
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(750ml bottle, courtesy of Nellie) Pours a clear yellow body with a medium white head. Aroma of florals, yeast, pepper, and pear skins. Flavor of yeast, citrus, candi sugar, nuts, and light pepper.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
(2nd Shenandoah Throwdown, 750ml bottle, thanks yobdoog) Enormous white head atop cloudy grapefruit juice body. Aroma is medium sweet, yeast, straw. Taste is medium sweet, straw, yeast, light tropical fruit. Low carbonation, medium body.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
750 ml bottle-pours a rocky off white head and gold color. Aroma is grain, light fruit, yeast. Taste is grain, light fruit, yeast, some pepper. OK effervescence.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
750 c&c from Half Time. Pours clear gold with a creamy/foamy white head. Aroma is lightly burnt citrus. A little sour in the aroma. Near full in body. Flavor is citrus, almost bergamot, with some sweetly earthy (?) aspects. It keeps promising sour, but never quite gets there. The flavor complexity is not great, but it is quite unusual. The mouthfeel is good, and it’s something of a cooked fruit tripel. Like it.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
750ml bottle acquired in trade with Lou16 (I got this one at least a year ago from Lou). Poured a medium and initially clear (hazed up as I got to the bottom) golden color with an averaged sized head. Some floaters towards the bottom of the glass as well. Aromas of yeast, fruits (pears and apples), and candi sugar. Tastes of fruitiness, candi sugar sweetness, caramel, and light spices. On the sweeter side, but not overly sweet. Alcohol content well hidden.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: AUG 7, 2008 Tap at Spuyten Duyvil. Had a fresh batch, and like virtually every Defiant beer, these guys can brew... they just can’t keep their stuff from getting infected. This batch was newer and so is likely a better representation of what they were going for. Pale straw colour with a thick white head. Aroma is lightly clovey with a kiss of clove and banana. Also a fair bit of lemon and some light black pepper. Warming brings out some apricot and peachy fruitiness. It is quite dry and restrained with a nice crackery Belgian pale malt. It’s pretty clean and I like these with a bit more spice, but it’s not bad at all.
Tap at Spuyten Duyvil. Cloudy golden beer, aroma is quite spicy and lightly fruity. Some orange, lemon and apricot plus a fairly light tartness. Flavour shows some sweet fruity character, but also a lot of lactic/citric tartness. Belgian maltiness, but the sourness in here doesn’t really work for me.
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3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
My Bottom Line:
Spicy, citrusy hoppiness swims throughout the humble cereals until a drying herbal hop bitterness clinches this amazingly authentic Belgian-style Tripel.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A sheet of foam covers the cloudy pale blond.
-The fluffy carbonation is perfectly calculated for the healthily slender body.
-The citrusy spiciness recalls lemongrass.
-Alcohol is not present in the flavor profile. This is very easy drinking.
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