Midnight Sun Épluche-Culotte

Deep golden copper. Dense, patchy white foam. Beautiful aroma of flowers, honeyed malts, medicine, peach, marshmallow, and passion fruit. Pervasive fruity esters. Slightly toasty undertones with hints of toasted bread, lemon, and phenols. World class mouthfeel quickly expands to a fluffy cloud before turning elegantly creamy. Exuberant flavors of buttered malts, peaches and cream, bitter rose petals, tropical fruits, and honey. Finishes dry and meaty with a notable earthy bitterness alongside notes of medicine, candle wax, and raw bready pale malts. This hugely boastful with its lovely floral tones, flavorful yeast derivatives, and wonderfully utilized hop presence. Easily among the best Trippels produced anywhere.

Massive, dense, rocky head. Intense, out-of-control carbonation. Deep golden-brown color. Overwhelming aroma and taste of corriander which gives way to citrus notes, more lemon than orange in my opinion though. Quite a bit of wheat in this I think. A slight metallic taste at the intro, but I'm certain that was due to poor shipping/handling conditions. Rather spicy with a broad fruit spectrum. Warming alcohol. Tastes a bit like Unibroue 11 on steroids. FYI: Epluche-Culotte translates into panty dropper (note the lady riding the carribou throwing her clothes off.)

Coppery gold color, pillow white head that won't give up. Very spicy aroma, wild esters of banana, clove, bubble gum like a German hefe, along with a dose of yeast, grains, and beef jerky soaked in alcohol? The beer fills the mouth, a hair of a bite on the palate. The flavors are that of a top notch tripel, reminiscent of Allagash and Westmalle. The alcohol is present too. This is one big beer. World class, just fantastic stuff, blew me away, knock me over with a feather. Have I raved enough? If you like this style, by all means seek this beer out.

You’ve got to admire the pluck of the trouserless, flame-haired cartoon lass on the label, as she tosses away her clothing and rides a caribouinto the wild, a distinct grin lighting her countenance. Did an ale like this give her the confidence and joie de vivre necessary to pull off so defiant an act with such gumption? Let’s crack the crwon and find out! She pours a slightly hazy perfect peachy shade, witha layer of solid, creamy foam, that slims down but never departs. Aroma. bold citric, frank orange and lemon coupled with a funky, yet inviting sourness, all met with a cookie-dough-like yeastiness that further entices. I like it, I like it! Great blast of flavor right on the tongue, floods the mouth with a wide, round, fully fruity flavor. Spices, and yeast also make up a large contingent in this taste barrage, and it all connects and washes up and down the palate. Zingy spice, plush, tasty, ever-pleasing citric fruit, long, luscious, still-spicy finish, and medium-to-full bodied. Flavor lasts long on the tongue, richly rewarding. Very nice. Very, very nice....oh, how I wish this wasn’t such a rare bottle to enjoy...if only I had a case or two at my diposal...alas! I’ll just have to savor this bomber slowly and soak it all in...lest I go overboard like the Alaskan Lady Godiva who graces the label, Lord lover her!

Incredibly huge head.This will take awhile to rate i have to wait for the head to die down.Very nice color light amber or possibly Dark golden straw color you choose.Mountains of foam to get past b4 trying this brew.Aroma was mildly malty Mostly it has a lot of citrus and coriander with a mild yeast aroma.Malty,spicy flavor some notes of citrus but mainly it's the malt and spice or in this case coriander that show through.very nice carbonation if allmost a slight bit to much but i don't think it matters in this case it doesn't hurt the brew in any way.The after taste is spicey and some what hopy mildly hopped though with a slight citrus taste thrown in for measure.what a brew i could drink this stuff all day especially on a hot day.

Spices in the nose. Sweet and yeasty. Honey-golden haziness in color. Sweet flavor, delicate mouthfeel. Spices. Honey cirtus flavor. A well-crafted tripel.

The beer pours a very lightly hazed amber to copper color, the head is Brobdingnagian in size, creamy in texture, light tan in color, as the beer evanesces, it leaves behind a thick glutinous sheet of lace that welds itself to the glass. The aroma of ripe fruit such as bananas, orange peel, vanilla, sweet malts also noticed a light hit of the hop flowers. Fresh and clean makes this an extreme treat for the schnozzle with the start ambrosial, lots of malt, the top middling in its feel to the palate, finish is purposeful in its acidity, the hops scrumptious, the aftertaste droughty and long lasting. The 9% ABV makes this a “Tummy Warmer”, and overall a real “yummy for the tummy”. As a point of interest, some really neat artwork of a “Disrobed lady flying on a Caribou”, Midnight Sun Brewing makes a fine line of beers, just wish they were a bit more available here in the “Deserts of Arid-Zona”. My congratulations to the “Master Brewer”, and the other artisans at Midnight Sun Brewing for the beer and the artwork.

Exquisite, intriguing and complex aroma, full of heady flowers and sweet fruits, with hints of honeydew melon, pear, dried apricot, pineapple, mandarin orange, turbinado sugar, anise, coriander and in the background, a faint, green, leafy, somewhat minty note. Dark amber color with golden highlights, faintly hazy, and with a subsiding, fine and lightly creamy head. Flavor profile is lightly sugary and estery to start with suggestions of banana, pomegranate and clove, followed by a mild peppery spiciness and influx of light acidity, and with a sweet, lightly floral, nicely balanced and lasting finish. Certainly full-bodied but with a lush, creamy and smoothly effervescent mouthfeel. Alcohol is nigh undetectable. Yeast pour added some doughy touches here and there. Incredible stuff.