3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
750ml bottle (Pikkulintu, Helsinki, American Weeks 2009)
Sweet fruity aroma, some hops, a touch of sharpness. Bready body, accentuated by the yeast. Buddy hoppy taste, and finish too. Very Belgian, and quite sophisticated.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle, pours a clear, golden amber body with generous, fluffy, white head. Aroma of belgian malts, yeast, banana, and clove with a hint of citrus. Flavor of sweet malts and orange with hints of spices, hops, and banana. Light fruit finish. Palate is light for the style, but not watery. Slightly fizzy on the palate and soft. Finish is fairly clean and dry.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours hazy golden orange with thin white head that hangs around. Aroma is spicy, banana, yeast, and some citrus. Taste is pretty much the same with some added earthiness and caramel. Hops bitterness is appropriate at light to moderate. Nice and crisp with dry finish. Mouthfeel is very prickly. This is a pretty good brew.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
hazy orange pour, thick bubbly offwhite head
fruity and yeasty aroma, a bit if spice
very sharp mouthfeel, overcarbonated and a bit offensive
flavor is clean and well balanced, though maybe a bit thick and sweet in the finish
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours a dark orange with a fluffy head that retains well. Nice spicy Belgian aroma. Nicely carbonated. Tastes of malt, hops, corrieander and spice blend well. Nice bittering and dryness on the back side.
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3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
The look is a hazy golden orange colro with a decent head. The aromas is fruity with banana, citurs, spice, and yeast. Flavor is little hop bitterness, with a sweet fruit taste, and yeast.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a light golden amber with a thin though lasting head. Aroma was toasty malts, caramel, candied oranges.
Flavour was yeasty/bready with light nutty roasted tones. Fruity and light spice finish.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
bottled. slightly murky light brown, aroma of orange rind and candi sugar, plenty of caramel and butterscotch, qite sweet, hints of custard, clove and creme caramel
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