Midnight Sun Épluche-Culotte

Courtesy boboski. Cloudy dark straw color with a thin white head. Sweet aroma without getting too sickly. A bit perfumy, more so than most tripels. Medium-bodied, lightly carbonated. Traditional tripel taste, sweet, some spice on the end. Decent.

Thanks Bobo! Poured a hazy and warm orange. No head at all. Aroma is sweet orange, with a touch of spice thrown in. Flavor is a touchy yeasty and slightly sweet.

Bottle from Footbalm, thanks! Aroma is mostly yeast, dough, and some light spices. Medium head sits atop a golden body. The flavor is very yeasty, with definite hints of coriander. Not bad.

C-Bus 9 shared by moejuck: Bottle: Pours a hazy gold with a white head. Aroma, yeasty, light fruits, some bready notes. Flavor, bready, yeasty, some spices and pale malts.

22oz Bomber $7.35 Liquid Solutions Bottled the 2nd week of June according to bottle. ’07 I’m assuming Epluche-culotte pours a deep golden with tiny floating particles you really have to look to notice which creates a slightly hazy appearence. Five or six streams of carbonation bubbles race to the surface. A one finger white head formed on the pour that quickly fell to a skim coat with a thicker ring around the glass. Leaves some patchy lacing. This beer has a really uniue aroma for a tripel, one I wasn’t at all expecting but is very welcomed. The aroma is loaded with a berry sweetness. Strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, and (last but most noticeable) blackberry. A mild spicy dose of alcohol compliments the berry medley. Very interesting aroma and something I’m very fond of. Flavor goes hand in hand with the aroma. Berry flavors abound. Blackberry kicks things off along with some mildly sweet raspberries. Strawberries come along on the finish with an appropriate pale/biscuity maltiness that’s hardly noticeable but keeps things from being too fruity. Medium bodied with a slightly syrupy mouthfeel. Glides through very smoothly with a pleasant warmth on the swallow from the alcohol. I could drink this beer all night until I couldn’t drink anymore. With all the berry flavors present I would think it would start to get too sweet but this beer hits the mark just before it turns too sugary. A great tripel from Midnight Sun. Not at all what I was expecting from a tripel. The fruitiness is there but in a much different form from the fruitiness I’m used to seeing in other tripels. Great example! 9/16/07

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a lazing light orange head. The aroma is sweet with notes of straw and hops. The flavor has notes of straw, spices, and dusty hops on a powerful sweet malty background.

White, quick disapearing head. Reasonabvle smell and appearance. A fruity and smooth Belgian. Goes down great, and 9% is tolerable. Aggressive carbonation. A very good beverage. Another great trade with Hopdog, thank you sir! Again a couple years later: Pours attractive, though light golden yellow, with abundant white head. That head is musty funk initially, and then yeasty. Drinks very extreme corriander, orange in finish and aftertaste that is most satisfying. Above average mouthfeel. Midnight Sun has been doing a fine job with their Belgiums these days.

Name: Panty Peeler Tripel
Date: August 29, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: clear copper, fine white head, streaks of lace
Aroma: sweet malt aroma, balancing spicyness, touch of candy, light spicy phenolics, hint of fusel
Flavor: sweet and spicy flavor, estery sweetness is well balanced with spicy phenolics

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Name: Epluche-culotte
Date: December 24, 2004
Mode: Bottle
Source: Whole Foods Market, DC
Vintage: 2002
Appearance: clear amber, big frothy tan head, lots of visable carbonation
Aroma: sweet spicy aroma
Body: light body
Flavor: sweet malt flavor with lots of spices, fumey alcohol essence, as it warms the alcohol subsides and the body becomes very rich and malty, the spices are mellow and adds lots of complexity without being over powering, starts off good and becomes excellent, an evening’s entertainment

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Score: ***+/4

The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.