Unibroue 15

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

Soft dry fruitiness up front, subtle hints of wild honey, dried pineapple, and sweet pear. Highly carbonated like most Unibroue beers, lively and fizzy on the palate helping to emphasize the spiciness. Pours deep gold, perfect clarity, tall lively fizzy white head.

750ml Bottle: Very sweet, vinous aroma. Smells of Chardonnay grapes, candi sugar, alcohol, sweet fruit, light yeast, cider, and a hint of pepper. Poured gold/flaxen/apple juice in color with a medium-sized white head that shrank but lasted throughout. Cloudy. Sparkling. Full of small and large particles throughout. Flavor is medium sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of grapes, yeast, resin, pepper, cider, vanilla, fruit, and spices. Medium body. Average texture. Average to lively carbonation. Sweet, resinous, semi-dry finish.

750 ml bottle. Pours a hazy antique gold with a moderate white head that lasted through two-thirds of the beer and left very little lace. Very pleasant aroma of apples, pears, yeast, candi sugar and some very mild fresh hay. The flavor is equally nice with apples, pears, yeast, candi sugar and some alcohol. Very lovely, crisp finish. A really enjoyable beer that appears to be holding up quite nicely.

Thanks to Tom Baker for the bottle! Clear gold with a rich, frothy white head. Nice carbonation. Spicy, yeasty nose with clove, honey, ginger, grass, lemon, pepper and pear notes. Incredibly dry, slightly acidic taste. Ginger, spice, honey, lemon, orange, apple, white wine and pear. Very very bubbly. Aged very nicely, but the Unibroue yeast taste can’t be hidden. Too spicy, as usual, for me - it detracts from the balance. The ethanol alcohol taste increases as it warms up.

This was just a nice Belg. I was getting some interesting flavors in there... some white wine tannins, and some notes of brie. Enjoyed this enjoyably.

Rating 1500!Sampled from a 750 ml brown bottle this one was a bit of a gusher pouring a dark orange-ochre color with a large orange-amber head. The aroma was yeasty, caramel, butterscotch and a notes of pear and apple. The flavor was sweetish, tangy butterscotch and caramel. There was a light fruity undertone and the typical yeasty bready Unibroue house character. The alcohol showed through a bit and there was a hint of cognac. Decent but nothing special.

750 ml bottle from the Wine King thanks to msiano. Pours a super deep red/brown with a light coating of an off white head. Sweet aroma lots of dark fruit and nuts, dates, figs, raisins, plums and prunes, slight alcohol notes coming through upon warming. Medium bodied with very soft carbonation. Flavor is still very solid with notes of sweet dark tropical fruit, dates, sherry and cognac. This one is aging nicely and still has some life left.

Bottled pours hazy yellow with medium white head. Yeasts and plum permeate the aroma. Flavors are of yeast and citrus and alcohol. I’ve always loved everything from this brewery, but this was just ok. Maybe because it was bottled years ago, who knows.