3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
750ml caged and corked bottle. Pours hazzy brown with a white, foamy head. Smells and tastes of fruity and spicey belgian yeast. Nice carbonation and warm alchohol aftertaste. Very nice belgian strong ale.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours a clear golden with a big white head. Lots of carbonation. Aroma is burnt malt and yeasty hops. Taste is complex and well balanced. Sweet bready taste with a semi-dry finish with a slight hop bitterness. Quite nice in the balance of this beer. It was a great pickup at Christmas.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Golden in color and has a slight and sweet scent. The taste was more complex than I imagined. Slightly banana and spicey.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
On tap at Max’s in Baltimore. Pours a clear deeper yellow with good head and sticky lace. Aroma is very odd. Sort of cotton candy, mustiness. Taste is very boozy with sickly sweet candies and alcohol. Gross.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
(Sample Date: 1/9/2010 Source:Other) 9L SALMANAZAR bottle courtesy of Steve for his birthday bash. That’s a really big bottle of 10.5% beer for 15 or so people! Complex peach pear fruitiness with spicy yeast character along with some grainy yeasty funk. Slightly cloudy golden with rocky white head. Very spicy with lots of fruitiness and really sneaky alcohol. Medium body and medium mouth feel. Finish has lots of spicy residual and pepper.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: JAN 12, 2010 I got as a Christmas gift (Brouwerij Van Steenberge mix 6 pac). Honey golden unclear, medium head. Aroma of malted barley a little sweet and spicy. Taste of malted barley, right touch of Saaz hops, not too sweet, the aftertaste of alcohol is not too strong. For something very strong, it’s pretty sweet!
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
A: Poured with an average-sized head that is white and bubbly. Body is a dark orange, and extremely clear with just the slightest evidence of haze.
S: Lots of yeast and bread coming through here. The aroma also has a fruitiness to it that is quite pleasant.
T: Sweet, fruity, and yeast, with a very slight twinge of bitterness in there as well. The finish is dry, with a slight alcohol warmth as well.
M: Medium-bodied, creamy, with average carbonation.
D: A very good beer, but I don’t know if I would have recognized it as a Belgian IPA; mind you, I’ve never had this style before, and I would expect their IPAs to be less in-your-face then many in North America.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at Brugs Beertje. Golden pour with a good healthy white fluffy head. Aroma of lemon. Tastes of honey, citrus fruit, banana, malty, spice. I have been drinking this for many years and it is always a rewarding experience, should have a higher score in my opinion.
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