4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Bendo and served in my NB Worthy glass: Pours a cloudy gold hue with small floaties, fading frothy last with a ring of foam, spotty lace. The aroma has notes of candi sugar, peanut brittle, apricot and banana esters, sweet bread, a herbal hop. The taste starts fruity and malty sweet with a hint of bready goodness. The midsection is a tad yeasty and even wheaty before heading off towards a lightly spiced finish. A touch phenolic as well. The mouth feel is slightly sticky and lush but there is a fair amount of carbonation and bright alcohol to keep it from being cloy. A solid Tripel that could even be better in a year.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
GABF 2007: Poured a lightly hazed light yellow color. Belgian yeast aroma. The aroma was dry and spicy. Light wheaty malt flavor with a spicy finish. Medium bodied with a good warmth.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft at Troegs. Clear golden yellow. Hoppy, sharp candy sugar and light yeast nose, basically it smells like a typical tripel with a big hop bill and slightly higher alcohol. Chewy and frothy sometimes, the hops are dry and spicy, not grassy or juicy, and the yeast is clean and estery, not muddy or heavy.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a slightly cloudy golden yellow-orange with a medium white head. Unfiltered with a few hops abound. Spicy aroma of cloves, plantains, lemongrass, yeast and bubblegum. Taste is spicy with hints of banana, cloves, lemon, fresh yeast and a bubble gummy finish. Nice.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
12oz bottle. Hazy yellow gold color with a small white head. Spicy yeast aromatics, lemongrass and a hint of sweetness. Fruity ester flavor, banana, faint citrus. Grassy, lemony hop component, some earthen spiciness.Bubblegum, hop spiciness in the finish, faint vestiges of phenolic sharpness. Mouthfeel is a light medium, rather dry.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: FEB 24, 2008 Date: 10/12/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, GABF
Appearance: hazy yellow, frothy off white head,
Aroma: sweet candy malt aroma with a light tartness,
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, lots of cereal character, light bitterness,
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Date: 02/23/2008
Mode: bottle
Source: cellar tasting
Aroma: aroma has dried out and picked up some fusel alcohols and stronger spicy phenolics, no tartness,
Flavor: sweet candy malt flavor is picking up some funkyness, light bitterness rises out of the spicyness,
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Zathrus. poured relatively clear yellow, but did cloud up in the glass a little bit. Descent half inch thick head. Nose was yeast, spicy, banana as well as other light fruits mingled together. I was astonished when I saw it had 10abv. Well hidden throughout. Went down real nice, and was very enjoyable. Now to get my hands on scratch 4.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
GABF ’07. Pours yellow with a small, fizzy, white head, diminishing with fair lacing. Aroma is average malt (bread, hay, straw), average hops (herbs), average yeast (earth) with notes of banana. Medium bodied, alcoholic texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Average duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity and bitterness.
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