Victory V12

Brewed by Victory Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Downingtown, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Tap at Barcade’s 4th Anniversary Party: Hazy deep copper pour with an off-white ring of head. The aroma is decent with fruity notes of apricot, orangey citruses and fig. The body has thick and sticky carbonation. Sweet flavor with evident alcohol. Sugary with a honeyish sweetness, sweet candied malts, syrupy citrus and a peppery alcoholic finish. Like many American examples of the style, it’s too sweet with surfaced alcohol flavors and little/no complexities/subtleties.

Copper color with some floaties going on. Aroma is the caramelizing of sugar as you heat it in a stovepan. Flavor is quite peppery and a mildly annoying hop presence. It all turns out all right though. Finishes dry. Okay beer.

It’s alright. Malt is rather sweet and sugary-decent. Too much alcohol. Rather harsh. Finishes remarkably dry. Pepper. Lighter fruits.

Dark amber pour, with a lively lingering white head. Aroma is burnt sugar sweet, malt, and strawberries. Flavor is berries, alcohol, pepper and caramel. Pretty intense stuff. The mouthfeel is the standout here - full bodied, yet crisp and clean. Solid overall.

Pours a dark amber with a large cola-like head. Fruity spicy yeasty aroma with a bit of alcohol and slight raspberry. Interesting play on Belgian flavors, yeasty with malt that is toasted, slightly burnt and a bit sour, with this unique hard-candy understated sweetness. Burnt toast and raspberry hard-candy finish with some lasting bitter yeast. This stuff is so odd and yea it does remind me a bit of a triple. Very light sticky body with abrasive carbonation. So strange... almost like a "Belgian" ESB or maybe Southern Comfort diluted with Rolling Rock, yup, thats it.

crisp hop aroma, clear citrus note. Pours a sightly hazy amber brown, with a nice tan head. Well carbonated. Delicious balance of sweet & bitter. Has a nice caramel finish leaves the mouth with velvety feeling. This is a powerful beer that will pleasantly surprise with its balance and flavour.

This is a nice very aromatic beer. It pours a cloudy copper with a 3 mm lacing of copper toned white head. The palate is nice creamy like for this type of beer. Actually the most disappointing part of this beer is the flavor. It is good and worth the 6 I gave but no more. After taking a whiff of this beer I really thought it was going to be a 9, but it is a little too sweet for my liking like apricots some hops and a little yeast. Very good beer - a little less sweetness would make it great.

Lovely copper pour with lace but small head. Alcohol is there, but not prominent. Aroma of hops and yeast. Hops abundant in the mouth with a pronounced sweetness. The background has some fruit, but not much. Suger and hops pervade with some hints of dried apricots with golden raisins. Not spot on, but not bad.