4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JAN 31, 2008 2006 bottle. Pours yellow/gold, with a white head. Aroma is yeast, apples, honey, and wine. Flavor is honey, fruit, yeast, peaches, grapes, and alcohol. Very enjoyable, but overpriced. Rating #950.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Clean gold; small head. Aroma of alcohol, apple, bandaid. Flavors of residual sugar, honey, powder sugar, soap, corn, herbs. A bit cloyingly sweet. Significant carbonation, some champagne grape residuals, caramel and butterschotch finish. Overall big, sweet, tasty and fun.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle, deep clear golden with a white head. Wood, white wine and champagne in the nose. Somewhat of a "dusty" character in the flavor; notes of aged malt, citrus, lemon, hay, pale brewing malt and champagne. Surprisingly sweet. Light bodied with very lively, almost prickly carbonation.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
The cork wouldn’t budge, so I removed my hands to try another grip. As I did so, the cork shot into the air with a loud "Pop!" and rocketed around the room. Luckily, not too much run-off, since this brew is overpriced. It has a highly effervescent deep golden body with a fizzy off-white head that vanishes quickly despite the excited bubbling. Very nice fruity aroma - peaches with a few red cherries, some green grape skins, and a splash of honey. This Champagne-styled beer may be a bit too effervescent, too lively on the tongue and too distracting in the flavor. It retains its fruitiness in the flavor, but the highly spritzy feel gives it almost a quinine-like taste. Dry finish. Pretty good but, as mentioned above, this is way too costly to repeat unless someone treats me. <font size=-4><a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Places/ShowPlace.asp? Lakeview Liquors, Chicago, IL<font size=-1>
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(11/3/07, 750ml bottle) Lightly hazed amber body topped by quickly dissipating large off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, yeasty, light bread. Taste is medium sweet, yeast, peach, light honey. Unusual. Effervescent light-medium body, alcohol presence is small compared to actual ABV.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Aroma of candy, yeast, fruitiness. Sweet, smooth belgian spiciness. Dry finish, lots going on. But kind of lost in the shuffle of a huge tasting post GCBF at Capflu’s.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Clear gold colored body with a huge white head. Faint, clean pils-like malt nose with a moderately yeast presence, and some chemical scents. Very carbonated and effervescent, with a biting and sharp flavor of candy sugar, hay and grains. Makes me burp.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
This poured a bright gold with a huge white head. This beer was eager to leave the bottle, in fact, this beer poured out all over Duane’s table. The aroma was funky bubblegum along with pears and cinnamon. About what I expect from a Belgian strong. The taste was leathery cinnamon pears. This had a smooth body with a pleasantly spicy finish. Nicely made.
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