Orval

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

Poured cloudy burnt orange color with huge foaming head. Aroma - yeast and mild hops. Taste is bitter green grape and spicy dry finish. Overall an above average beer, slightly boring on tongue but finish is nice!

light caramel appearance, long lasting, mildly rocky head with some lacing - nice and clear. The aroma hit me when I opened the bottle - NICE! - strong yeast/spicy pleasing aroma. Light and dry and a nice balance of light hops and spicy notes. A very nice beer indeed.

Pours a hazy orange from the bottle with a soapy white head of foam. Balanced yeast, hops, and cinammon on the nose which carry into the flavor along with bitter green apple and faint malts. Mildly carbonated and dry moutfeel which sours as this beer warms.

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.