Orval

Brewed by Brasserie dOrval
Style: Belgian Ale
Florenville - Villers-d.-Orval, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Clear orange vast rocky white head. Fresh hoppy smell. Nice bitter taste. Ok body, good carbo for 6.2% ABV.

Aroma of wheat, lemon and a bit of banana. Pours thick and orange with a big fluffy head. Tastes of wheat, pilsner malts and a little roast nuts. No alcohol whatsoever. This is an easy drink.

UPDATED: JAN 28, 2012 Young bottle at North Bar, Leeds. Pours a deep amber with a big head with lots of retention. Wonderful aroma, fruity, Belgian yeast, almost banana like at points, along with the tropical citrus and perfume. Taste is brilliant, sweetness and fruitiness brilliantly mixes with the bitter hops, citrus taste is preserved. Lovely. Extremely dry, even in mouth before the finish. A touch of breadiness on the finish tops off this brilliant beer. Look forward to trying an older bottle. Highly recommended.

For as many times as I’ve had this, I just assumed I had reviewed it at some point. Alas, I have not and now is the time. Poured into a snifter. Bottled 01/06/2010, about a year and a half old. 4.5 A: Plenty of carbonation in this one. The first pour yielded 80% head. Hazed medium orange color. Second pour gave me a full glass. Three fingers of pillowy white head with excellent retention. Rather than just lacing, there are gobs of head permanently stuck to the sides of the glass. 5.0 S: Wonderful! Loads of funk in here: horse blanket, musty basement, and old socks. Peppery spiciness, perhaps a touch of clove, lemongrass, old hay, peach, and wild apple. 5.0 T: Again, wonderful! Barnyard funk, horse blanket, dank wet basement, and wet hay. Below that is pepper, clove, and tumeric spiciness. Mega earthy overall. Hints of what were grassy and earthy hops. Peach fruitiness again with crab apple. Sweet in the middle and drying on finish. 4.0 M: Lighter medium body. A bit too much carbonation, but it is happily very spritzy and super smooth. 5.0 D: I’ve yet to have a bottle of this at any age that wasn’t good, but it seems like 1.5 years is a pretty good place for it. Lots of funk without any hints of being "stale" or whatever you want to call it. Probably the best single out there. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 06-14-2011 20:49:00

This is a very good beer, probably a abbey dubbel in stead of Belgian ale.. but whatever. It’s not my preferred style though. Score isn’t as high as some others would give this beer, but i admit it’s a good beer.

Hazy dark golden with a solid white head - aroma is of malts and spicy belgian yeast - taste is oslo the same with malts, yeast and perhaps hints of citrus - good, but was expecting a little more

33 cl bottle from Passione Birra. Beautiful sunrise orange colour whit a big white, non persistent fluffy head. Very fruity aroma. Just the perfect carbonation make this beer one of the easiest drinkable ever. Such a lovely one.

Bottle poured into a tulip glass. Pours a golden orange with a thick beige head with large bubbles, also slightly cloudy. Aromas of fruit like peach and banana, but hops are present to keep it smelling balanced, also a little spice. Taste is dry and hoppy, but with fruit notes. Very tasty brew. Classic!