3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity spicy malty aroma with hints of yeast and alcohol. Sweet malty warming and slightly burning malty spicy yeasty flavor. The finish is long warming malty with some spicy yeasty alcohol hints in the aftertaste. A few years in the celler and it would have been even better.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Appearance: Pours a hazy, amber body with a medium-sized head that quickly fizzles out.
Smell: Boozey scent of raisins and candi sugar set against notes of toasted malts, dried orange peel, and yeast.
Taste: Toasty maltiness sweetened with a big dose of candi sugar. A sip of ethanol. Faint hint of citrus. You get plenty of raisins crammed into your mouth delivering a juicy acidity. Flash of plank wood. Peppery hints on the exceedingly warm finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Pretty high carbonation.
Drinkability: It’s all kinds of decent, even with the raw, searing booziness.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
At 12% a pretty decent beer. The alcohol flavor was a little more apparent than expected. No joke, a very strog beer. One bottle and you are feeling pretty good. The aroma was "banana like" which is definitely indicative of a beer made with Belgain yeast. Not as banana like as other beers that use the Belgain yeast strain but one of the strongest I have tasted. The slightly sweet aftertaste makes you come back for more. This Pennsylvania brew left quite an impression on this Penn State graduate. It gets better the more you drink it.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
I just love american belgians. They are so violent but yet delicate. Big yeasty aroma with just the right doze of hops. Very fruity, well masked and extremely drinkable. More please!
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Dark fruit, prunes, dates, raisons. Balanced carbonation, but a bit syrupy. Brown amber, light head. Not what I expected, decent beer.. alcohol decently hidden.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
It has a reddish/amber/orange/brown color to it. A really nice head when its poured but goes away quickly. Has an ok off white, almost brown lacing. The smell is fruity, and has a hint of alcohol and is sweet. A very subtle alcohol taste considering its a 12 percent beer. Very smooth and amazing! Fruity/sweet and malt.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Great brew... poured at reddish caramel color. Had a higher level of carbonation than I would have expected from a strong belgian... and I typically do not like a lot of carbonation, but they pulled it off fairly well
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
750->Trappist: Pours a large, off-white head on top of a murky, amber body.. Malt aroma is of molasses, hops of flowers, and perhaps some spruce with a light yeast/bacteria aroma. The body is medium, the texture is sticky and there is some carbo. in there. The flavor’s duration is short, being lightly sweet.
I would definitely consider this an indulgence beer, not only based on its body, but as well its alcohol content. Good creation by Victory, but not their best IMO.
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