Orval

Pours orange with a ridiculously large head. Lots of great lacing! Big brett aroma of lemon, orange, elderberry, apple and musty horse-blanket. More like a lambic. First up upon tasting is sweet caramel malt, with some faint tart orange tang before a pithy bitterness cuts through. Hints of banana in there somewhere. Good light body with a refreshing carbonation.

330 ml bottle at Kuikka. Pours reddish-golden with a white fine head. Fruity fresh aroma has notes of hops and some sourness. A complex taste of hops and fruit. Balanced dry aftertaste. Delightful to drink.

330ml bottle (approx 6.2% ABV) into signature Trappist glass. Make sure you serve it at the right temperature. Pours hazy gold-bronze with a large rocky off white head that slowly dissipates to leave a thin collar of foam that lingers to the end of the glass providing excellent lacing. There is a lot going on in the nose with Brettanomyces yeasts, bitter oranges, earthy peppery spices and floral hops. The complex taste is subtle geuze-like sour at first but becomes sweeter on the mid palate (with a trace of oranges) and finishes with a wonderful lingering dry earthy piney hop bitterness. It is light-medium bodied with a perfect carbonation and a smooth mouthfeel that could almost be sessionable. This is easily the most idiosyncratic Belgian Trappist beer out there and I love it! I shall definitely be reserving a few of these for cellaring as it will only get better.

Bottle from Theatre of WIne, Greenwich. Pours a hazy amber with a soft, white head. Aromas of citrus, ginger, cinnamon, lemon zest. Plenty of carbonation. Flavours of lemons, tangerines, black pepper, orange peel. Nice bitter, yeasty, zesty finish. An old friend.

Pours a hazy ruby-orange copper with an incredibly soapy and rocky white head. The aroma is fruity, floral, spicy, sour, and dirty. Similar flavor, but soapy and bitter as well. Has a foamy light mouthfeel and a very dry finish. Different, but interesting. Bottled 9/23/08

330 ml bottle from LCBO, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass. Tasted often before actually rating it.

App.: Cloudy amber with a large, loose off-white froth. Aroma: Strong sour cherries, wood, tang, funk and fruit, ginger, spicy, peppery, herbaceous, some light caramel, some citrus, bitter greens, yeast, very complex and thoroughly enjoyable. Palate: Medium body and fairly full but rounded effervescence. Flav.: Still plenty of sour cherries, quite fruity, more malt than the nose with some caramel and toffee notes, the funk-type notes are gone, the ginger is still there with other spiciness, woody and peppery, a touch of yeast; dry with some bitterness and a little alcohol, some malt to finish.

Quite the brew. Complex and always enjoyable. A triumph of Trappist brewing.

pours hazy tea amber colour, aroma is flavourised hops, oriental spices and strong yeast, sour plum and champagne. Taste - strong spices, ginger, orange skin, bitterness at finish, maybe it is the suggestion of the logo (with fish in the backgroud), but I can feel some saltiness.Pepperness, dryness, taste is evolving throughout drinking the glass down. Does not seem son dry and bitter at the end. I did not read anything about this beer before, not to expect any particular reception. I liked this moment. Rather sour/bitter hoppy trappist. Interesting

Classic example! Pours medium gold to copper with significantly large head. There is a slight noble spicy bitterness that offsets the residual sweetness. The finish is super dry from the bottle re-fermentation / Brettanomyces addition. Pleasantly sour finish and just a slight barnyard. A superb beverage!