Unibroue La Fin du Monde

Brewed by Unibroue (Sapporo)
Style: Abbey Tripel
Chambly, Canada

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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I drank this without having any idea whatsoever of what I was getting into. So I see the 9% ABV, and I’m thinking, is this a barleywine? It’s quite light and clear, perhaps the palest color I’ve ever seen from that strength of beer. It tasted quite wheaty, almost reminding me of a hefeweizen. Kind of strange but very nice.

Cloudy and highly carbonated. Nice foamy mouthfeel. The alcohol and sweetnest jumps out at you and leaves a strange film on you tongue and throat. Reminds me too much of Champagne.

This would be a first-rate blonde ale if its aroma and flavor weren’t dominated by alcohol. As it is, it’s not bad, and I prefer it to most blonde ales that I’ve tried. The taste is on the sour side, but not excessively so, and I like its yeasty qualities. It feels good in my mouth. If only the alcohol were covered better...

UPDATED: JUL 4, 2008 2008-03-24, 7-3-7-3-14=34
Blond color, with a turbolent perlage; frothy big head. It’s a quite simple Triple, with a light canned sardines aroma, a rather sweet body, some spices (cloves...), low bitterness and some alcohol warmth. The final is mellow and spicy. Drinkable.

2002-06-03, 7-4-7-3-14=35
Appearance and flavours similar to a Belgian wheat beer. Cloudy, perfumy, fruity, sweet and spicy. Difficult to believe it’s so strong.

I typically dont dont like the lighter/white belgian beers, but this is the best I have ever had. Cloudy yellow color. Smelled of sweet spice, tasted of sweet celery, nice finish.

It’s rather hard to believe that this brew contains 9% ABV. Pale, pale wonderfully pale. Fruity must and spice nose. The moment you notice the sweetness a rush of mellow bitterness tugs your buds for attention. At the ’End of the World’ there lies a brewery that turns out some fantastic beers, not to mention a few happy French-Canadians. Quality, Eh!

Slightly less alcohol taste is apparent in this fine beer than in the Unibroue 10. Rather winey. Good. Floaties in the beer. I liked it.

The nose off this was very nice. The typical yeast smell was present, but I got a stong characteristic of apple-cinnamon, very nice. Colored strangely orange. The apple cinnamon theme was continued in taste, and the brew finished with a presence of carbonation and a certain sweetness. In my opinion, Unibroue has always done well to make the alcohol content less noticeable, and this is s a fine example. Nice.

Well, I had to pull out my recording of Olivier Messiaen’s “Quatour Pour la Fin du Temps,” “Quartet for the End of Time,” which is simply exquisite, written in captivity and performed for the first time at Stalag 8-A in 1941, with the composer playing the piano, unfortunately, this beer does not live up to that transcendental work, this is a pale, light color, diminishing head, mild fruit and malt aroma, very slight carbonation, but I find this a pretty dull flavor, it goes nowhere on the palate, it just lies there, a kind of dry, unsweetened malt, slightly sour finish, not at all a transcendental beer, nor does it live up to the overwhelming grandeur of the title.

Strong but watery, quite a fast paced drinker, with a frictional element. It’s got a rock-mellon, Papaya edged tinge on ambient evaporation within the oral aperture..blah, blah wank wank.. yep, we can rate beer like you too (Mr Apricot and Apples). Look it’s nice, it’s tastey, it’s a lot better than the other beer out there and we’ll have another. End of Story.