Unibroue 16

Deep golden/brownish beer, thick pillowy head. Spicy aroma, apricot/melon and toasted malt base. Aroma of ginger, apple, pear, coriander/cardamom. There is also a fairly dank, leafy quality in this brew as well. The spiciness is good with a light peachy quality. Fairly alcoholic as well. A hint of coppery metallic character as well. Light tartness and a bit of wheaty character. It’s not terrible, but it is the weakest of these Unibroue anniversary beers that I’ve had.

Hazy almost coppery color. Abundant white head. Very distinctly belgian aroma... sweet and slightly spicy. Somewhat alcoholic, but very malty. like i said, distinctly belgian, but very tasty.

Hazy orange with a nice white head. Musty-sweet aroma with spice. Big taste. Alcoholic and malty, with a sherry overtone. Raisins, fruit, and syrupy sugar in the back. Long finish. Nice.

Hmph. Not exactly to my liking. Rather sweet, cloying with a huge raisiny present, a milder spicy note. Dark purplish color, foaming head.

Caged and corked, this poured a big ruddy orange, that really only looks orange in the light, otherwise it looks light brown. Solid Belgian head. Nice alcohol-laced brown sugary aroma. Quite the oomph kick in the flavor ... strong, strong alcoholy burst, raisin, cognac, sherry, cloying, deep. Wow. Not for the faint of heart. (#2976, 6/12/2007)

750 ml bottle from Métro Joannette, Verdun QC (May 2007) served at cellar temperature from a Maudite glass. A giant soft mountain of a head, light tan-white and fine-bubbled, slowly receding above the translucent caramel-gold body and leaving scattershot lacing....the nose offers loads of vanilla and spices, reminiscent at first whiff of the 2004 though softer and more bakery-like rather than an herbalist’s shop....later the house yeast comes through, tart and farmy and a little sour.....on tasting, one first notices the intense sweetness combined with a lightness, very tripel-like in many ways but with more caramel, slightly "darker", with some port/sherry tones and a hint of fruitwood bark and smokiness....dries out and gains some bitterness and burnt qualities at the finish, which is long and yeasty...carbonation low to moderate, mouthfeel is fairly thick, a bit stickly, slightly fatiguing. I’m not sure that this is up there with Unibroue’s best after one sample, but it certainly is a vast improvement over everything they’ve put out new in the last couple of years. There’s hope yet.

Drity orangish red. Pretty strong fruitish aroma. Rich taste. Syrupy. Light fruit taste that is somewhat refreshing but still very mild. Sweet.

ah, my first new beer in almost 2 weeks. boards is a bitch. appearance is a nice deep opaque caramel with large foamy head. smell definitely has a candi sugar backbone, but it isn’t as pronounced as so many other unibroue’s. i wouldn’t even say this has that distinct unibroue aroma. a bit of acetic acid in the aroma, some wood and yeast and honeyed almonds. body is too carbonated and a bit too light. it’s very drinkable though, at this temperature (right out of fridge). there isn’t a ton of flavor, there’s sorta some fruit in the middle/back on the middle of the tongue. surprisingly not super sweet and malty. almost no alcohol, though a bit of sourness kinda fools you into thinking it’s there. it’s weird, there’s basically no base to this beer. i dont know if i dislike the fact that it’s so light bodied because i felt like i’d earned a big beer tonight, or if i like it because i could drink a couple bottles of this easy if i was at a party. in any case, not by any stretch my favorite unibroue........... almost an hour later. alcohol shows more, but little else has changed. it’s also strangely a bit tart.