Unibroue La Fin Du Monde

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

Orange with a grey head. Orange-like aroma combined with yeast. Sweet flavours dominated by sugar, peach, pepper and yeast. It’s refreshing and powerful. A nice tripel.

12oz bottle. Pours a hazy honey color with one finger creamy head. Nose is cloves, yeast and fruit bubblegum. Taste is tangy citrus, spicy Belgian yeast and a souring finish that fades into sweet fruits again. Medium mouth feel. An easier drinker but quite warming at 9%.

Golden wheat color with little head. Very malty and bitter. Strong flavor of cloves and coriander. Velvety feel on the tongue. Alcohol is slightly noticable. Taste definitely improved as it warmed.

Sorpresissimo da questo prodotto Unibroue, comperato in una botteghella di rue des Abbesses e bevuto la sera di fronte alle previsioni meteo del televideo. Sorpreso perché lo trovo rinfrescante, come una buona birra di frumento, e allo stesso tempo caloroso come una tripel (anche se non tradirebbe mai il suo tenore alcolico). Insomma, questa birra mi ha dato una buona impressione, nonostante la sua forse eccessiva dolcezza (ma diamine, è pur sempre - o vorrebbe essere - una tripel!)

Crushed with Jakebra. Malty as hell. Not quite sure what to make of it. Wheat beer tendencies for sure. Definitely had better beers from Unibroue. The triple fermentation is impressive, but there’s something weird going on here that doesn’t agree, aight?

Corked 750ml bottle, lightly chilled. Very clean, lively, viscous-looking golden body with small dense creamy white head. Yeasty aroma; plenty of spice, clove and coriander among others, ripe apricots and pear, hay-like with a distinct sweet bread character, alcohol is slightly noticable. Lively carbonation, creamy texture, syrup-like consistency adding overall sweetness, warming on the way down. Plenty of spicy fruit complexity on the body; dried fruits, pepper, coriander seed, cinnamon bread (donut?), really ripe banana, cereal wheat, alcohol on the finish...i could probably keep on going on with comparisons, but you get the idea. Finish is slightly dry, a hint of bitterness and somewhat very well balanced. Really liked this one, for all of the right reasons, and I was reluctant to leave it to age, also for the right reasons it seems!

750ml from Total Wine, Durham. Still my favorite of the Unibroue beers. But funny, I’ve never thought of this as a tripel at all; it still seems more like a Belgian strong of their usual variety, with tastes of darker fruits and esters coming through. True, the body is nicely light and lively, and there’s a crisp, easy-drinking finish here. More of a hybrid, then. But it remains a delightful brew.

What I would call one of the defining offerings from this brewery. Pour was like a thick cider but held an impressive head. Taste was of sweet fruit to the point of almost being syrupy. Definite alcohol notes rounded that out though. What really sets this apart is the sharp carbonation along with a fluffy palate. Finally something good I can say about Canada.