La Vieille Salme

Formerly brewed at Brasserie d’Achouffe (Moortgat)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Achouffe, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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330ml bottle, Quinns, 12th August 2007. Pours a golden amber with a light white head. Excellent aroma of mint, hay and spiciness. Screams ’freshness’ at you. The flavour is similar to a Belgian wheat beer. The palate is great - full but silky smooth, with warming alcohol evident also. The finish is long and overall this is very good indeed.

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.

Hazed orange pour with white head. Bready, corriander, and Belgain yeast on the nose. Orange zest, bread, vanilla, corriander, and a nice warmth. Medium bodied with good carbonation. Btl thanks to jcwattsrugger.

Bottle. Musty rose, orange peel, and malt aroma. Hazy golden yellow color with large white head. Sweet orange malt flavor up front with a musty black pepper and mild bitter hops finish. Good body. A very nice beer.

Blond beer with a fluffy white head. Yeast and grain in the nose. Sweet, yeast and spicy flavour. (Bottle 33cl)

Bottle: Big white head on top of a clear dark yellow beer. Smell fruits, peach, malts, light sour, soapy, grains, corn and some hops. Taste fruits, peach, apricot, pear, green apple, hops, flowers, hint of alcohol, bitter, sweet and creamy with herbs and spices.    Grassy flowery aftertaste. Soft mouthfeel with a light sharp edge in swallowing, mid carbo and mid body.