Unibroue 15

Sample at the Unibroue tasting at Blacklick Wine and Spirits on 4.10.09. Clear orange/copper color with a big white head. Yeasty and somewhat tart aroma with some grain, candi sugar and alcohol. Flavor is sweet up front, then a little boozywith a yeasty and grassy finish. Best offering of the evening probably.

Bottle in 2009. Pours hazy golden with white head. Aroma is cloves, sweet malts, and citrus. Flavor is yeasty, sweet malt, and spices. Alcohol heat has been aged out, very pleasant finish.

Tap NY 07. Pours a slight hazy light copper/ orange with a nice fluffy lasting white head. Aroma is slight lemon and citrus, herbal , light grassy with the phenolic unibroue yeast strain- spicy and light pepper with nice bready malts. Flavor is spicy, phenolic, doughy yeasty, slight burnt toast, herbal grassy- sweet big bready malts. finish is a bit prickly due to the high alcohol and the very high carbonation, but overall its pretty good.

bottle - Pours lightly hazy golden with a tw finger white head. It smells of sweet, bready malt, coriander, and citrus esters. The flavor is of sweet Belgian malt that buries the 10% abv along with yeasty fruit notes. It’s medium to full bodied and bubbly with a dry finish. Very nice. I see it’s a little over three years old. It’s holding up just fine so far. I wouldn’t be afraid to keep the bottle longer if you have one.

From a bottle poured a hazy copper color with a good amount of head that disappeared quickly. Nice sweet malty spicy flavor with a quick finish.

Sortie de mon cellier et dégusté avec Viak et Glandine dans un verre de Westmalle. Apparence orange ambré avec peu de mousse et une bonne carbonation. Arômes d’agrumes, de mangues, fructose et madère. Goût de caramel, madère, coriande, alcool et gingembre avec une touche de poivre. Le tout ce joue d’équilibre et de finesse.

Bottle. [thank you, after4ever]
vintage 2006]
On the bus to ZBF. Pours clear golden with a small frothy, off-white head that soon becomes a thin film. Lots of bubbles in the liquid. Aroma has apples, some viniousness, yeasty and malts. High carbonation with a fine, frothy mouthfeel. Flavour is lightly vinious, no indication of oxidation, good dryness, yeast and a little hops. Malt, apples, oranges and a slight vanilla note finish it off nicely.

750mL bottle. Poured clear, brighter orange with lots of rising carbonation and a well-retained cap of white head. The aroma picked up lighter fruity notes with tripel-like spices (black pepper and cloves primarily) upfront with breadiness and dark vinous fruits behind.. whispers of oak and vanilla on the very back. The flavor had a blend of white and redder vinous notes and pale malts laced with a Belgian-inspired peppery yeast strain.. cherry and oak sourness show on the back half and are amplified by alcohol on the long finish. Heavier-bodied and very well carbonated on the palate.. a hair too strong on the back, but it held together. I don’t think age has done too much to this one.