Orval

Pours hazy peach with nice lasting head. Aroma is citrus, clove, and tons of yeast character with orange peel being dominant. Flavor is citrus with excellent bittering and malt aspect- balance is exceptional. Palate is prickly from the carbonation, but nice and dry. Expertly crafted and balanced. ***September 18th Re-rate: Hazy amber pour with a massive white pillowy froth that lasts forever. Aroma is powerful- citrus and spice prevail with a slight funky horseblanket note and massive perfume. Quite complex and mysterious. Flavor is fruity with some obvious brett sourness that is mildly tart and ever so puckering. Slightly sweet but also slightly attenuated- strikes a wonderful balance. Excellent bitterness. Palate is full, effervescent, pillowy, and extremely quaffable. I need to be careful when I see this on shelves, for it always beckons me for more... A true world classic.

pours a hazy peach with brown tints and lively carbonation. head is large and frothy. Aroma is very nice- malt, some citrus, and spice. Flavor is wondrous- great spice notes, some clove, and wonderful sweet malt. Palate is very nice, quite drinkable and refined. Excellent beer.

Bottle 33cl. Pours a orange/red colour with a good size head that lasts, this is one of the best looking beers I’ve ever seen. Very sweet and complex aroma, hard to define exactly what smells are hidden inside. Also a very complex taste, can make out banana, vanilla and lime, goes down with a nice throat cleaning alcohol sensation. One of my favorite Trappists.

Bottle. Poured a copper brown color with a creamy foam head. Aroma of citrus and sweet malt. Flavor has same sweet malt and citrus, but with a vanilla hint. Very good.

It pours an interesting orange hued brown with a durable foam head. It has a unique aroma of grapefruit and a sweet mustiness that’s hard to define – band aids and wet dog come to mind, but in a good way. Dry to austere flavor that is complex with an abundance of grapefruit, vanilla, yeast and funk. Not sweet with a hop bitterness that is ever so well balanced by the other flavors. Many people who have never tried Orval are put off by its unique flavor. I find it addicting. Orval is really in a class by itself.

11.2 oz bottle. Pours a hazy reddish amber color with a huge white head. Sweet aroma with floral hops being predominate. Palate is thin, dry & well carbonated. Taste was grains with a floral hop background. This was a pretty good brew, but frankly, I don’t see why the average rating is so high. I didn’t think it was all that special. I do have another bottle, which I will let age for a year or so.

2003 vinatage- Even after 5 years of age, it still had plenty of carbonation. An eighth to quarter inch of foamy white head appeared after pouring into my Bastard pint glass. People always talk about Orval being this amazing beer so I finally had to drink one to try it out. I am quite impressed the price tag being so cheap. Taste is tart at first and very dry on the finish. The dryness was hard for me to get used to at first, but half-way through it I hardly noticed it. Aroma is tangy and sweet. The beer is sweet and super DRY, kinda annoying. I’ve had much better, but was not a hugely disapointing beer after all the hype I read about on this site. I recommend this to others, but don’t expect a heavenly beer like some people praise it to be.

The superb Trappist Orval :-p creamy head. great taste! grows better over the years. Loses it’s sugars after 6-7 months. Unique amongst it’s kind ! gimme another 1yr old one ! :-p