Great Divide Hades

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

UPDATED: AUG 9, 2007 22oz bottle
Good rocky head formation, clinging like spiderwebs to the glass, sitting tall above a clean medium to light golden colored body. Nose: dusty yeast, candy sugar, lemon, wheat, light spices. Balanced up front, not too sweet or bitter - over the middle more muddy yeast but not heavy, flavors of straight candy sugar, wheat and yeast. Some tartness near the finish, more musty as well in the finish. A strong golden Belgian style but comes off as a poor mans Unibroue.

12oz bottle (marked as 7.8%) bottled on 8/02/2010. Pours with a clear golden body (mostly clear) with a minimal and quick to fade head. Aromas of corn (or raw pilsner malt, which my nose sometimes associates with raw corn (dms precursor?)), and strong clove phenols. Some candi sugar and fresh cut grass. Peppery. Taste is clove, peppery, and bready. A bit thin and lightly metallic on the back end. Some vanilla and light banana esters in the finish as well. Light notes of tongue depressor. Kind of ’green’ tasting to be honest. Lively bubbles, medium-dry finish.

Bottle. A pale golden beer with a white head. The aroma is of yeast, fruits and it´s herbal, the taste is sweet and fruity, herbal and spicy. Medium body with a sweet dry finish.

Very clear, very palte golden. Large lasting white head. Clean, soft banana, yeasty nose. A close to exaggerated sweetness immediately reminds of bubblegum. Moderately high carbonation. Notes of cloves and nutmeg. Pretty well done. Light, clearly filtered body.

Bottle from Capone’s. I love seeing mew Great Divide beers, but this is the second in a row (after Samurai( that I must call a disappointment. Very pale gold pour with an aroma that is malt liquory, with some hopcit, fruit, big grainy malt, and some funky yeasty notes, and a flavor that has hopcitrus, pale malt, funky notes, and even a tad of sake flavor. Not my cup of tea, this.

Bomber. Poured a crystal-clear bright golden with a short cap of white head sticking around. The aroma picked up a whole bunch of peppery spices and lighter banana notes with sweet toffee and floral accents. The flavor was all about the spices with cloves and white pepper everywhere.. pale malts and some light fruit at the base, but were swallowed up a bit by the spicage.. still quite tasty. Medium-bodied with high, creamy carbonation over the middle.. very spicy finish.. decent balance overall.

Bottle thanks to Jens, rbesg07. Aroma is very floural and yeasty. Taste is similar though buttery and biscuity, disapointing.

Draught at Falling Rock. Pours clear, sparkling gold with an average rocky white head, mostly lasting, good lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (bread, cereal), light hops (herbs, grass), heavy yeast (dough, earth, sweat) with notes of butter and dust. Medium bodied, creamy texture, average carbonation and a chalky finish. Average duration, moderate sweetness, light acidity and bitterness; banana estery yeast with grain malt flavor.