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Gouden Carolus Tripel

Gouden Carolus Tripel

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An Abbey Tripel brewed by
Brouwerij Het Anker

Mechelen, Belgium

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5433.77/5.03.77/5.09%94.7Trappist glass, Tulip P  Stats

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In spite of modern brewing technology, this beer is brewed according to ancient traditions. It unites, now as in the past, the best products of our soil: rich barley and fine hops.. It's refined character, with a pure and rich taste, will captivate you. It is matured at length in cellar and bottle, and is guaranteed to be brewed only from pale malts. It is traditionally top-fermented and is 100% pure. The Gouden Carolus Triple has a unique colour and a full flavour due to its well-balanced hopping. To properly savour the Golden Carolus “Triple”, pour slowly in one movement leaving the yeast deposit in the bottle. This beer may be served cool but not chilled: 7-8°C is recommended. In 2002 this beer won the Gold Award in the World Beer Cup, San Diego, USA in the “Triple” category.

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 JoeinUccle (689), Brussels, Belgium
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/58/104/514/20

Jul 7, 2007  
On tap @ Chez Moeder Lambic. Pours translucent dark gold with lacy white head. Aroma is faint, but I think honey, oranges and yeasty notes are there. Initial honey-caramel-burnt sugar sweetness is short-lived, then comes the star of the show: an awesome balance of that sweetness, a mildly hoppy bitterness, and the alcohol. The bitterness combines with dryness in the finish to coat the tongue. An excellent example of the style, which is too often poorly executed.

 Narnad (111), Wonder Lake, Illinois, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/515/20
Oct 10, 2008  
Found a bottle of this recently for cheap. Poured a very hazy orange color, almost like unfiltered apple juice. Aroma is very strong of raw banana and some sweet hops. Flavor is very complex. Starts off very sweet of pear and moves into a slightly spicy clove flavor. Ends with a very smooth hops bitterness and leaves an almost Hallertauer hops flavor at the end. Very fine carbonation and not a lot of alcohol taste for a 9% beer. One weird aspect of this beer is that it makes your taste buds feel as if baby orajel was rubbed on them. Tongue is not numb, only your taste buds. But this feel eventually subsides. Another aspect of this beer is the fact that the banana and clove flavor don’t determine its flavor. Very well rounded, smooth and surprisingly heavy beer. Great beer!


 malrubius (455), USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Oct 8, 2008  
11.2 ounce bottle in Duvel glass. Hazy orange with flat white head and some lace. Yeasty spicy orange tobacco aroma. Sweet honey orange spicy with mild tobacco bitterness and lingering orangy spiciness. Medium body and carbo. Nice mouthfeel. Very good. I know this is a great beer, having had it many times. But, once again, tryng to get fresh beer around here in Long Island is very difficult.


 JohnnyOS (625), Golden, Wisconsin, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Oct 6, 2008  
Pours hazy dark gold with thick head. Floral hop aroma with a touch of yeast. Light fruit and malt flavor with a clean hop finish.


pellegjr (5), , Ohio, USA
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4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/510/105/518/20
Sep 20, 2008  
Cloudy pale gold color, thick foamed head with heavy lacing, flowery hop bouquet, fruited smooth malt head and body with a clean tactful hop finish, complex flavor profile, highly sessionable


 gerardoluna (168), Mexico
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/103/516/20
Sep 18, 2008  
[Eyes] Great pale yellow with a big foamy white head. [Nouse] Citrus, floral and bannana, in deep alcohol is present. [Mouth] smooth body is spice, floral, alcoholic taste in deep and hops and hops and hops! a bitter long afthertaste.



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