3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap at Feral. Pours a lovely cloudy amber with a small beige head. Leaves some nice lacing. Aroma shows notes of banana, cloves, pine and citrus with a slight backing of sour yeast. Rich toffee and citrus surround the mouth with typical belgian yeast. Notes of dried fruits - apricot pear come through as well. Fantastic beer
3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Fantastic candied banana nose. Really full on without being too much. In the mouth it loses it’s charm. A muddled medium bodied dubbel. A bit of candy sugar, caramel and not a lot of anything special.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Tap. Great beer. Nice mix of aromas, with roasted caramel, and bubblegum. Taste is sweet, with average duration. Palate is velvety, with a medium body. Dark yellow, with a frothy white head.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: JUL 7, 2007 Alright, finer points aside this has already morphed from bluevegie’s rating. Is this the base for the long awaited Wine-beer. On draught at the brewhouse, the staff no help calling it a Belgian Tripel and also managing to serve us the most blonde ’Mild’ I have ever seen - it was their Pale ale!!!
Anyways:- This produced an orange copper and bright in the pure sunlight. A creamy tan head bobbed atop and held, the body a tad gassy to look at for style?. Alcohol, higher alcohol fuelled caramel lathered soft mudcake nose - burnt underneath. Alcohol tickles like a strong liqueur port. Smoky, sweet burst onto the palate. Suggestively tannic, astringent burnt malt in back; deep, drawn, dark sugars upfront giving this no chance at harmony. Fizzy, served chilled?, but reasonably full as far as viscosity. Alcohol dries it right out in the swallow, and with the tannic malts doesn’t leave behind much in the way of desirables. A sharp, quite pronounced linger of smoke, dust and treacle develops on the palate and builds in the olfactories. I can’t lie, not the brewers best. But, I hope he still keeps pushing the barriers. (8.0%)
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 12/20
Sampled on tap at the Western Australian Beer Week Launch.
While this was reasonable, it was clearely understtenuated and thus a little overtly sweet. Tastes like a belgian that need 6 moonhts in the bottle to ripen up. Hope they bottle it.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Muddy looking, orangey brown body with a short light tan head. Some caramel, burnt honey, and a perception of soft spices, pepper with a little medicinal note right on the finish, leaves a lining in your mouth and you don’t notice the alcohol even after the second one. Served a bit cold to be fully appreciated
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