Heavy Seas Mutiny Fleet Yule Tide

Brewed by Heavy Seas Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Pours deep gold into a tulip. Bright white head quickly recedes to hug rim. Cookie and alcohol aromas. Full and sweet with upfront dusty caramel turning cloying in the lasting biscuity yeast finish.

5/30/12. 22oz bomber. Hazy orange pour with a small khaki head. Huge fruity aroma with bits of sour and candy sugar. Tamer flavor with more fruitiness and bold malt and sugar. A tad sweet and fruity.

22oz bottle in a Trappist glass. Pours deep copper with a lacy, off-white head. Aroma of spicy yeast, caramel malts, and a bit of floral hops. Flavor the same, with the sugar a little overpowering. Average texture. A decent beer but not the best of its style.

22 oz bomber - pours light orange with lots of carbonation, a medium head and average lacing. Has an orange peel aroma and an apricot-orange taste to it. Has a medium-heavy mouthfeel to it.

22 ounce bottle - $5.99 at Olde Crabapple Bottle Shoppe in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Appearance: Pours out a ever so slightly hazed, dark gold body with a foamy, barely off-white head.

Smell: Spicy, sweetish nose housing notes of Granny Smith apple slices, faux berries, gum, pineapple packed in heavy syrup, and a clearing shot of ethanol.

Taste: Sugar encrusted pale, grainy malts with a big splash of green apple cider. Then, a bit of strawberry gum, peppercorns, and a hit of fairly warming alcohol. Also, some pineapple along with a big rebound of sweetness. Slightly acidic throughout. Sweetish, warm, fruity finish with more of that chewing gum accent riding out leisurely into the aftertaste.

Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium-plus carbonation.

Overall: Yule Tide falls somewhere between "acceptable" and "okay," which, to be honest, exceeded my expectations.

2011 bottle. Very thick but in a good way. There was a nice lacing down the glass and the alcohol did not drown it out. I rarely enjoy Tripels as much as i did this one.

22oz bottle. Pours a hazy orange with small white head. Pleasant aroma, tastes sweet and fruity. Smooth for 10%abv ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle 22fl.oz. @ [ Fastelavn Smagning - Carnival Tasting - Ulfborg ].

Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, dusty, light to moderate hoppy, moderate yeasty, fruity, wood notes. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, riped fruit, wood, malty, yeasty notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20120218]

Bottle. Perfumy and malty alcohol nose. Cloudy orange colour. Very small white head. The flavour is nicely fruity with a good alcohol note. The flavour is better than the aroma. Good alcohol level for this beer, but it is a bit sweet.

22 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is yeasty and light toasted malty flavoured. Sweet and toasted malty flavoured. Bitter and slight citric finish.

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of GT2. Pours a hazy golden with an off-white head. Very, very sweet fruity with spices. Medium body, cloyingly sweet with heavy spices, lots of white sugar and yeast. Warming alcohol. Too sweet to be truly enjoyable. 180212