Unibroue 17

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

A dark amber body with a off-white head. A sweet caramel aroma with hints of dried fruits and bread. Some alcohol was present. Flavor had a nice sweet note initially and finished with a nice fresh baked bread goodness to it. Finish was light and crisp. Carbonation was moderate. Good!

Bottle from Dr. Jekyll’s Beer Lab. Dark brown pour with a white head. Aroma is spice and hops. Taste is dark fruit, alcohol, wood, and must. Still has the consistently irritating Unibroue mouthfeel, though I like this better than others I’ve had from them this far.

Pours brown from the 750ml. bottle with a creamy, tan head and beautiful lacing: Aroma of bananas, rasins, Unibroue’s yeast, and liquid multigrain bread coupled with a thick, hearty mouthfeel. I guess I can describe Unibroue’s 17 the same way. Some dark fruits, peppermint, and toffee and a slight alcohol burn in the finish. Drinkability: Spiced, malted, smooth. Rebuy: It’s more like a one and done for me. #215 on 22112009, DG.

Bottle courtesy of Fratto. Murky dark brown pour. Smell is dusty malts with a fair amount of peppermint spice. Taste is dark fruits and is exactly like all the other Unibroues. Aftertaste is strong bitter. There is very little deviation from batch to batch of the majority of their big beers. They all begin to taste the same after awhile. I believe it is due to using the same strain of yeast for every beer they make.

thanks to Fred82 for this bottle. Cloudy amber brown colour with an off white head. Taste is very complex. So many different flavours as I continue to drink. It starts off with the bitter bite of alcohol, nice yeast undertones with dark fruit flavours and light toffee. Aroma is earthy dark fruits and malt along with spice. So glad I held on to this one until number 300. Just wish I had an opportunity to get more bottles.

Dark ambercolor, with a frothy pillowy beige head, leaving some belgian laces, nice yeasty, fruity nose of dark dried sultana raisins, figs, prunes, stewed apples, with some earthy toasted, caramelized, biscuity malt, cookie dough accents, with some light toffee, spicy nutmeg notes in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a warmth, yeasty, fruity, liquorish character, with some brandyish, faint port-like, plummy, raisiny flavors, with some hints of cinnamon, nutmeg spiciness, and with some toasty, biscuity, caramel, bready, malt accents, with some mild dark bitter chocolate, light candied orange peel notes, leading towards a warming, malty, fruity, raisiny, plummy, lingering hop bitternees finish.

Bottle@UDRM. Tnx JBrus! Aroma is full with fruity and dusty, sweetish Unibroue yeast. Hazy, brown coloured beer with an off-white, medium head. The taste is sweet and has peach, aprikots, aples and dust. Some spice and raisiny malts. Bit dry in the end.

pours a slightly hazy medium to dark mud brown with a 3-4 finger creamy beige head that fades to 1 finger after a few minutes and holds pretty well there. Aroma is full of dark fruits, apples, an almost oak like vanilla note, toffee, light roast, cherry cordial, white chocolate, licorice, big floral notes and a little ethanol. Flavor is roast, dark fruits, vanilla, an odd salty blood note, not really strong, but a little disconcerting, stale licorice, black pepper, overripe apples, light mineral notes about halfway through, lots of earth and sweet musty notes, a hint of maple, and some sweet tobacco. Finishes a little salty, a little cardboard coming through, more tobacco and dark fruit. Palate is pretty thin for a 10% brew, light and creamy for a second leading into a dry, lightly fizzy middle and even more dry finish. Not bad, not as good as some of Unibrou’s, it has a few strange, off flavors, but I still enjoyed it alot. Oh yeah, that bloody taste mostly went away after a couple of sips but left the salty portion, strange.