Unibroue 15

Formerly brewed at Unibroue (Sapporo)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Chambly, Canada

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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A: The pour is a clear golden-orange color with a very short lived white head. S: A really cidery nose that is super dry. I get mostly apples and white grapes, with maybe a touch of pale, cracker type malts. A bit of a sugar note is the only real sweetness to the aroma. T: Starts off with a semi-sweet white wine flavor and the same apple juice/cider character. There’s a definite alcohol presence to this beer, and it’s quite light overall, so not much to hide it. Surprisingly, not as dry as the nose would lead you to believe. M: The body is medium with a moderate to high level of carbonation. D: Seems that this one has aged very strangely. Wasn’t awful, just wasn’t really too overwhelmed by it either.

750ml bottle. Pours clear golden with a small off-white head that fades to spotty foam. The aroma is nice with Belgian yeast, sweet caramel apple, spice, and some sherry-like oxidation. Sweet caramel malt and pale malt base with Belgian yeast, apple, pear, fruitcake, spiciness. Complex and tasty. Really smooth mouthfeel with medium-high carbonation and medium-full body. Excellent if conventional Belgian golden ale.

Bottle 750ml. @ home.

[ Trade by fiulijn ]. Initail sparkling, clear medium amber orange color with a large, frothy - open, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, light to moderate yeasty, sweet wood, sweet perfume, sweet honey. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, sweet yeast fruit, vitage malt notes. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20100919]

Poured into a snifter. Drank this beer recently, but did not taste old at all. Color was a cloudy pale yellow. Head was full and fluffy, leaving great lacing. Aroma was very fruity with some spices. The main smell was of bananas. Taste was similar. Some mix of cloves and earthy hops added as well. A very complex taste that made me want to keep drinking more. Mouthfeel is very smooth. It is extremely easy to drink for a beer at 10%. Normally the alcohol would show here, but it was complete hidden. Overall, this is one fine beer, especially for being a couple years old. I picked it up on sale for $8 and it was definitely worth the price. If you find one on sale, I suggest that you pick it up. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 12-27-2008 20:25:24

Sweet apricots and spices on the nose. Some citrus notes. Golden with an orange haze in color. Looks more like a Triple than a Belgian Strong Ale. Surprisingly still fresh tasting after 4 years in the bottle.

750ml bottle purchased at D’s a few months ago. Last night before another seven day a week marathon of school/work. Decided to go for something big that I was looking forward to. Poured into my Chimay chalice. A-Body is a very hazy, translucent golden yellow. Pours with a 1-2 finger foamy head that eventually fades to a thick collar and leaves behind some lacing in the glass. When held up to the light one can see that the cloudiness is thick and dynamic with darker yeast sediment and cloudiness moving about the body. S-Smell is soft but very good. A spicy Belgian yeast comes through accenting a big fruitiness (apple, pear, lemon). Soft floral hops are noticeable in the background as well as the slightest hint of phenols. T-Taste is very subtle and mild. A fruitiness (as described above) comes through first and is the highlight of the flavor upfront. This has an accent of just a hint of floral hop flavor as well as a substantial bready yeast backbone. Spicy Belgian yeast really comes through for the finish as well as a slight accent of both floral hop flavor and bitterness as well as a hint of alcohol. What lingers is soft fruitiness and spiciness. P-Medium to high tingly carbonation and a very smooth, yeasty body. O- This is a very good BSPA that with its aging has developed a pretty mild, soft character. I would imagine that when this was fresh the floral hops really shined...but the alcohol was also much more noticeable. This BSPA...at least at this stage is drinking like a soft Tripel. Its very good and I am happy that I bought it. Would purchase again if I saw it again. The 10% ABV is well hidden though this does drink like a 7%...so its not completely hidden. Unibroue is an awesome brewery that doesn’t get the credit it deserves. Serving type: bottle

750ml bottle, caged and corked. Nice ’pop’ of the cork. Poured a slightly hazy medium orange color. The head was two fingers high and white. It reduced over a minute or two to a thin lasting film. Fruit dominated the aroma including apricot, pear, and apple. However, baking spices and pale malt were certainly not insignificant in the nose. Medium bodied and sweet. A bit sticky in the mouth with moderate carbonation. Apricot, clove, hay, subdued apple, and white pepper flavors.

Bottle. Poured a hazy orange with a fizzy off-white head that settled quickly. Aromas of dark fruits, spice, apple, and a light earthiness. The flavor had dark fruits and spice. Medium body and sweet.

Deep gold, fluffy white head. Aromas of all the fruits of autumn, roasted and spiced. Nose is musky and sweet; flavor is slightly sweet and spicy with a hint of warming alchohol. Long aftertaste of apples. Deep characteristics of a belgian tripel. Excellent.

I guess this is a bit old but like me, mellow. Cloudy amber with a big white head. The aroma is fruity and earthy with a nice blend. The flavor starts sweet and fruity and ends with some hop character and an alcohol bite. Finishes quite nice with a taste that lingers on. Very good.