Struise Tsjeeses

Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Abbey Tripel
Oostvleteren, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

Bottle at Poechenellekelder. Amber orange with big white head. Slightly cloudy. Aroma is alcohol, candi sugar, bit of marzipan, bit of fruit cake. Taste is malty and quite sweet but with lots of fruit too. Bit of pear and some tropical fruit. Bit like a fruit Danish pastry. Bit of bitterness and spice in the finish. Full bodied, sweet and delicious boozy warmer.

Bottle at 50 degrees poured into a snifter. Syrupy orange in the glass. It looks like a snifter of Grand Mariner. Large bubbled head that fades to a ring that resembles tapioca pudding around the glass. Yeast, stone fruit, and booze aroma. Not terribly strong fragrance. Taste is similar to the nose with lightly Carmelized sugar. Not as flavorful as I would have expected, but I wonder if this bottle hasn’t been stored very well prior to my purchase. Thinner body than one would expect but tasty.

(Bottle 16/12-2011) Very large creamy beige head, yeast aroma, unclear orange color, balanced round taste.

Pours a hazy medium yellow. Aroma is lightly malty, hoppy, yeasty. Flavor is moderately sweet, highly alcoholic, citrus.

Bottle, pours honey blod orange w/ fomy white head, aroma is fruity ester, some burnt sugar, and light-to-moderate funk, caramel sweetness, surprisingly light-boied, very dry, interesting

Muddy light brown. No head. Aroma is peachy, lightly fruity. Taste has smokey tarry notes. Burnt plums - darker flavours than you would guess from the appearance of the beer. Somewhere close to Chinese smoked plum juice drank from an ashtray.

Bottle. Small particulates. Cloudy burnt orange. Small cap-film. Sweet-spicy aroma is intriguing. These are not pumpkin pie spices. More veering toward unusual light mulling spices, toward ginger biscuit, orange peel candy, marzipan, mace, lemon zest. Ohhhh fun beer. Great gingerbread malt backbone carries a panoply of rich but delicate spices. Much more cookies (cooked well, crispy) in the flavors than the aroma lets on. Big soft creamy palate is lovely. Aftertaste is cinnamon, mace, and ginger snap, flavors I like more in beer than in cookies. Before that is orange peel candy, which I do like. Alcohol is much better hidden here than in the Reserva, which I liked less. And although I find this beer lovely and lots of fun it was really strange to see oakes’s aversion to it as if one of the peculiar spices in here is totally polarizing "the effect cilantro has" on people as he put it. The effect comes down to a sensation on the palate, which is basically chalky but I like it.

Tap pours light amber orange with off white head. Aroma of pale malt, alcohol and raisin. Taste is much the same of raisin and so touch of peach with sweet light pale malt and alcohol. Goes down easy worth a tingly carbonation. Good brew for a golden christmas beer.