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Unibroue 16

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Unibroue 16 - Belgian Strong Ale

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 Percentile 
97
overall
Formerly brewed at Unibroue (Sapporo)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale

Chambly, Canada

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
4773.78/5.03.77/5.0Special10%91.8Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
Celebrating our sixteenth anniversary. Extra strong beer on lees, 750 ml.
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 STEPHENDR (478), California, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/104/517/20
Aug 14, 2007  
750 ml. bottle- color of light honey, with a frothy tan head - nose of yeast, honey suckle, jasmine, and orange– taste of yeast, honey, cloves, and juicy red fruit - body is light/medium, silky, and with high carbonation – aftertaste of hops , jasmine, and yeast


 JAF737300 (791), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/515/20
Aug 13, 2007  
Pours golden with some haziness. The notes of yeast show with lemon. The palate shows sweet malts which get very complex. The finish was long and the abv was in play.


 TheEpeeist (1429), Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/104/517/20
Aug 13, 2007  
25.4 oz bottle. Cloudy cider with a thin ivory head. Yeasty honey with light floral. Prickly carb with candied lemon peel and apricot. Melt-away toffee leaves hints of almonds. Smooth, pink grapefruit drying. Fun to drink; an easy 10%.


 Glouglouburp (2778), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Aug 12, 2007  
Cloudy golden copper topped by an initially large off-white head. Strong aroma of spicy candies. Signature Unibroue yeast, lots of biscuit malts and a lively carbonation support a superb body, full and smooth with a dessert Mousse-like mouthfeel. Rather sweet without being sugary. By Unibroue standard the beer is unusually spicy. The candies flavour, spices and biscuit malts all come together and create some kind of variation on the barley cadies and gingerbread man flavours. Lots of floral hops. Some dry coniferous in the finish. The alcohol is exceptionally well-hidden. In small tasting samples this was easily a 4.0 but this rating follows my first 750ml by myself and I must admit that by the end of the bottle the spicy candies flavour was getting a bit tiresome. I think this has aging potential as the sweet spicy candies should evolve and settle into something quite nice. However this is a very nice beer right now. 16 is not too young for me. Taken out of context this could really get me into troubles.


 Dorwart (1807), Robbinsville, New Jersey, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Aug 11, 2007  
Thin dense head of fine bubbles. Great carbonation. Sweet and fruity aroma with plenty of malts, spices, yeast and a bit of honey. Color is a cloudy orange brown. Wow, I like these unibroue flavor. Nice alcohol presece and warming. Lots of intermingling flavors. Spices, yeast, soft malts, light metallc overtones and a bit of raisin. Damn good but predicable for Unibroue. FInishes spicy and warming. Good stuff.


 1FastSTi (2551), Glendale, Wisconsin, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Aug 8, 2007  
Pours to a glowing dark amber body with a thin fizzy white head. The aroma is muddled mandarin oranges, nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves. Nicely blended. The flavor is spice muddled oranges. Cinnamon, mace, orange rind, nutmeg, pepper, and earthy yeasty malts. The palate hides the 10% alcohol extremely well. Sweet, medium bodied, and carbonated.


 DavidP (1743), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/104/514/20
Aug 7, 2007  
Bottle shared by Blake. Clear amber body under a foamy white head. Sweet and spicy aroma - taffy-ish caramel with nutmeg and light pepper. Very appealing. Interesting flavor - lots of woody spiciness (cinnamon bark, pepper) over sweet fruity malts; finishes with some light spicy hop bittering. I like this Unibroue because it has a strong orange fruit and spice component. In addition the alcohol is very clean.


 jcr (1136), Jasper, Indiana, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 6, 2007  
Cloudy, orangish-copper body with a frothy off-white head with orange highlights. The aroma is sweet with caramel, candy sugar and apple with notes of clove and yeast (earthy). The flavor is mostly sweet and moderately acidic. The finish is lightly tangy and alcoholic. Medium body with a watery texture. Moderately carbonated. OK, but not as satisfying as other Unibroue strong ales. It’s missing their complexity and fullness.



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