Great Divide Belgica

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

On Tap at the Great Divide Brewing Company, Denver 12/10/2007 as Belgian IPA ABV 7.5% Hoppy and slightly spicy aroma. Amber golden coloured and a little hazy in appearance. Smooth on the palate with some alcohol present. Malt and hop finish. 2. From the Bottle at RBESG Harlequin, Sheffield 19/07/2009 as Belgica Hoppy aroma. Golden coloured and hoppy with a slightly bitter yeasty malt finish.

Bottle. Pours hazy corn gold, white head. Aroma is spicy, musty and funky. Flavor is spicy, white grapes, and hoppy. I rather like the tangy (not sweet at all) somewhat sour bite of the white grapes. I’m supposing that must be due to the type of hops? This is a unique beer and is pretty darn bitter and smooth.

Style & glass: Belgian Ale, Trappist 12 fl oz x 7.2% ABV = 86.4 / 60 = 1.44 beers * 150 C = 216 calories (est.) Available at: Canal’s Lawrenceville, NJ for $8.99 Scent of leather, centennial hops, fruit, and decay, visuals are a brilliant golden body with a long lasting white head, taste is begian sweetness, bananas, and biscuits, with IPA citrus, bitterness, and presence. Palate is drying, active carbonation, and creamy. Overall, a very good beer. I hope it’s regularly available, because I’d like to have it all the time.

Bottle. Hazy yellow-orange with a fizzle of a top. The aroma is laced with herbs and yeast. This aptly named brew drinks with a mildewy aspect of wild fermentation and a citrus twist.

The aroma is like fruity corn bread with some spice and grass. The appearance is pale gold with an average head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thin. Overall I am not a fan at all.

aroma tastes like a touch of corn adjuncts and a touch of passion fruit. taste is sharp with flavor of corriander, white pepper, fruity maltiness. hops is a touch floral.

Jesus H. Christ, I must have had a different beer than most here. I got a draft from Craft, with a deep gold, 1-finger off-white head and great lacing. The nose was floral, white peppery, with citric hops, rock sugary malt, and a big aroma that hits you square in the nose. The flavor is very hoppy, fruity, white peppery, floral, with hops, citrus, syrupy rock sugary malt, anda rich, crisp, complex palate. This one looks doesn’t look like a world beater ibn the glass, but boy does it give you tons of nose and flavor notes throughout. Super enjoyable, and one of the most underrated beers, mayhaps THE most underrated beer I have ever quaffed, and proof that American experiments aren’t always bad.

Sampled on draft at Smokin Joes in Pittsburgh PA this beer poured a hazy bright yellow color with a medium sized soapy white head. The aorma was sweet and sugary. The flavor was sweet, tangy and tart with noted Smarties candy, candied fruits and too much alcohol showing through. The finish was long, tangy and tart with a Smarties candy undertone. Ok.