La Vieille Salme

Brewed by Brasserie d’Achouffe (Moortgat)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Achouffe, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Clear golden/amber colour, white medium foamy head, sweet hints of strawberry a subtile sour hints, medium carbonation medium sour, gentle bitter warm drink, soft sweet banana hints

33cl bottle. Filtered and golden with big white head. Nose : Sweet bread aroma, fruits like peach and banana, pear. Candy. Sip : low carbonation, medium body with oily texture. Sweet like hell with warming alcohol feeling. Creamy while swallowing. Aromatic hops are melted perfectly into this sweet brew. Honey and flowers. Overall it’s too sweet for me but I understand why it would be exciting.

Bottle. Pours golden orange with white head. Nose/taste of yeast, fresh cut pear, citrus, white sugar and sweet malt. Slightly sweet. Medium body.

Color: clear blond beer with small carbonization and nice white head. Smell: wheat and yeast. Taste: sugar, bitter and citrus. Aftertaste: sugar and yeast.

33cl bottle, BB 30/06/2013, def not retired. Dorée, col épais blanc. Arôme est poussiéreux, de grains avec une pointe d’agrumes pour un fruité moyen. En bouche, malté léger rendant un côté épicés, le tout reste très faiblard et décevant où juste les 8.3% de cette bière percent. Note des houblons nobles très européens pour une amertume de fin de bouche fruitée et houblonnée.

33cl bottle @ home. Clear orange / golden color, small white head. Smell malts, sweetness, some fruityness, a hint of liquorice, slightly some herbs. Taste malts, sweetness, some fruityness, a slight bitterness. Medium to high carbonation, medium body.

28/III/2012 - 33cl bottle from little supermarket (Vielsalm) @ home - BB: 31/VIII/13 (2012-297)

Clear golden beer, big creamy white head, stable, adhesive with nice lacing. Aroma: very malty sweet, some corn, grasssy hops, pretty spicy and herbal. MF: good carbon, full body, creamy texture. Taste: sweet maltiness first, with some citrus and other fruits, then it turns into a grassy herbal bitterness with citrus beneath. Aftertaste: nice grassy to peppery bitterness with a note of alcohol. Well done, I love this kind of Belgian beer. Also: retired? Don’t think so!

0.33l bottle from EtreGourmet webshop. This is a lovely cloudy golden-orange beer, really packed with tons of sediments and floaters and a heavy everlasting just off-white fluffy head. This is how a beer is supposed to look like! Fruity zesty aroma with some nice yeasty tones and perhaps even some hints of yellow apple zest and oranges. Not extreme or mind blowing, just subtle, calm and quite enjoyable. The carbonation level is soft and you can sense that this beer has been brewed some time ago. It also has a mild oily mouthfeel. The taste is light malty and zesty with that Belgian yeast, light spicy and a slow oxidized twitch that makes it even more interesting. Ends mild fruity with more yeast and a nice hint of banana in the aftertaste. It can actually in many ways remind of a Belgian wit. A really nice one!

Light orange colored, medium sized white head. Sweet and spicy aroma with fruity-peachy note dominating, lemon here clearly as well. Medium to full bodied. Flavor is also on sweet side with spices and orange here dominating, some grains with peach here as well. Aftertaste has some brown sugar in it, with thin hops.

33cl bottle-trade with jtclockwork-pours a thin white head and hazy yellow color. Aroma is pear, some spice, grain. Taste is pear, spice-clove, grain/light malt.