2.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Hazy golden color with a white head. The taste is watery and yeasty. with light fruity and spicy notes. Boring...
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle:
Big white foamy head on top of a hazy yellow colored beer.
Smell fruits, orange, peach, malts, honey, spices, hops, citrus, hint of yeast.
Taste is fruity, orange, hops, bitter, citrus, bit flowery, spices, light peppery. Nice aftertaste of hops (bitter) and fruits.
Medium carbo and body and soft to tingling on the tongue.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle @ home. Slight hazy orange pour, medium off white head.
Aroma of light brett, citrus, spices and fruit, hmm, is the brett supposed to be in there? Flavour is (poperingse) hop, some spices, citrus, fruits and some brett again.
The brett actually does the beer good.
2.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Pours medium hazy gold with a thin white head. The nose is an odd floral hop and spice yeast. The flavor has those influences, along with soap an what is best described as cat urine soaked litter box.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cloudy and slight dark straw color with a big white head that recedes, leaving a bunch of lacing behind. Slightly sweet and spicy aroma, some coriander there, also a tad bit of funk. The taste is a bit murky (in a good way) and sweet with some funk in the finish. Another interesting t’IJ - I like their funk character.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Yeasty aroma, nice golden color. Creamy, fruity flavor with a sour aftertaste. 8% alcohol is masked well in this tripel. Zatte didn’t lay an egg with me.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Notches marked March/05. Born or best? Hazy gold with a few floaters, topped by a frothy, 1 inch white cap. Aroma of old grains similar to a very light whiskey with a few ice cubes melted in it. Sweet fruits, mildly sour funky yeast, vinegar, also. Flavors are sweet and fruity, rich yet crisp malt, a subtle herbal/pepper spiciness, tangy vinegar, just a bit of musty funk, and a dry yeasty finish that makes me want to drink it way too fast. Very mellow. Full, smooth palate. Solid brew, have to try some of their others.
1.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
Errr, ugh, what happened. I only got to try three of the ’t Ij brews and they started good but then plummeted with each succession. This I couldn’t stomach. I suspected yeast infection but the taste was distinct and not related to top fermenting yeast’s by-products. Yes, well, poured a cloudy, even muddy gold with, what was noticeable, very very fine streams of slow to release carbonation. Head rose, a rocky thick pad of beige foam that laced well. Nutty (peanut butter, Nutella™ maybe) aroma with some dank, stale white wine, dank wood, sweaty sock and a little ’too late to be picked’ fruit (I tasted this two months ago, my notes ramble the aroma and flavour, with much profanity, so I’ll keep it simple). Tart, puckering and astringent as the first mouthful enters and exits. A little sweetness dwells upfront. Dry in back, harsh, solventy. Heavily yeasty, soggy carpet here, dank, unclean, with a severe irreversible nutty edge. Higher alcohols play, as they will, this leaked raw alcohol especially at the swallow where it abetted notes of hazelnut praline, used band-aids and plasticine. What happened here. My notes were very long for this one yet I may be barred from using such comments on the site. Bad sample? my point of view? Or just a laxed Tripel? Not my thing!! (33cL, No.20, Int’l Beer Shop, W. Leederville)
|
