Snoqualmie Falls Spring Fever Belgian Grand Cru

Brewed by Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Ale
Snoqualmie, Washington USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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When I first poured this into the glass and took a lungful of aroma, I didn’t think that this beer would taste very good. Mild citrus and floral aroma was present, but it was hardly apparent. The first couple of sips weren’t overwhelming little floral and citrus with the necessary spices. But as the beer warmed, the flavors became more complex and pleasant. The coriander is definitely present as is lemon and orange. Quite a nice beer just give it some time.

Aroma: very perfumy, floral, and slightly fruity; also, some carmel malts and ginger
Appearance: carmel brown, small white head, some lacing
Flavor: hops, some carmel malts, flowers or grass (something sweet), ginger, and misc. spices
Palate: very dry, sweet hoppy aftertaste, very smooth

22 oz bottle. Transparent yellow/orange, medium sized whtie head. Aromas were of sweet malts, bananas, whtie sugar. Flavors were sweet malts with a light bitter finish.

22 oz bottle. Light copper color with a thick, small head. Aroma of mostly candi sugar and sweet malts dominate the nose. Taste is mostly coriander and black pepper. Sticky sweet and malty with a sweet hop bitterness, yeast and anise. This could be very good in time.

22oz bottle. Copper and orange hue with a small to medium sized white head. Big syrupy sweet nose of ginger, coriander, soap, chlorine and sweet jolly rancher candies. Buggle gum malt flavor, with some spicy bread and tea flavors. That strong coriander and ginger soap flavor is overwhelming at times. Has a little toasted or burnt orange peel flavor as well. Like drinking potpourri.

A fine example of this style. Pours a solid amber color with a nice head that left a bit of lacing down the glass. Aroma is nice coriander and a bit of butterscotch, and strong enough to cut through the reminant of a cold I’m fighting. Flavor is very nice. Definate coriander and some other spices that I can’t disect right now but it’s very complex. Palate is crisp and well carbonated. Overall this is a great example of the style and worth seeking out.

beautiful dark-golden color, fruity boquet spiked with coriander, and a great subtle malt flavour rounded out with coriander and the yeast esters.

Beer pours very dark golden with a diminishing off white head. The aroma is belgian ale consistent with esters, yeast, and lots of coriander. Flavor is very spicy, lots of coriander, some yeastiness, and orange. Finish is dry and spicy consistent for the style. This is good but maybe too heavy on the coriander.

Orange-copper coloured beer, thin white head. Aroma has loads of coriander, bubble gum, and a yeasty spice. Flavour is more complex than the aroma would have suggested, coriander, bubble gum, orange peel, grapefruity hop flavour blends well with the coriander. Toasted malts also make an appearance near the finish. Fairly bitter finish. A nice refreshing brew.

Booo... seriously, did I drink the same beer as the other people who rated this? How could this possibly get 8’s and 9’s in the aroma department? Of the 3 people who drank this with me the smell was described as follows... a) chemically b) "like pine-sol" c) like "mr. Clean". I don’t mean to be so harsh on a small brewery from where I call home, but for a min. there I wasn’t sure I was going to want to drink this. When I did I felt like I was drinking watered down version of Dick’s Grand Cru. Like I said I really hate being this hard on a local so I think I’ll give it another shot before it leaves the shelves just so I know for sure it was really this bad.