Victory V12

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

Bottle with a cork that says 2002 and a date that says bottled 2003. Smell is already citrousy like pineapple with hints of honey dew, fresh honey, and lemon tarts. Some pepper, and flower smells to this brew that make it a complex beer! Pours out a cloudy amber orange/ruby red color with a thick white head that is dampy and long lasting. Def yeasty and the sediments float on and about. The taste starts off dry and sour but finishes with a taste similar to biscuits wtih a sweet/tarty jam. The smell is so grassy and tarty, in a good way.

Pours a magnificent hazy candy-like orange/red with yeast floaters. Head is initially generous with a foamy, tan off-white, head that is mostly diminishing. Aroma is of sweat pineapple, peach, mango, candy sugar, and alcohol. Flavor is on the sweet side. Pineapple, mango, pine, are in the front of the taste followed by a dry alcohol warming. Palate is luxuriously velvety, almost syrupy, accompanied by a subtle but present tingly carbonation. Overall a big sweet alcoholic beer with interesting tropical notes and with every sip you feel a little more drunk.

Light amber color with a fluffy white head. Wheat, banana, clove aroma. Flavor is of malts cloves and banana with a sweet finish.

raisin, alcohol, amber, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, lightly sour, medium body, creamy, average carbonation, long finish,

Had a heavy night of drinking on a case of these (12) thanks to a generous Christmas present by one of my good friends. Classic strong belgian with fruit tones and an extreamly alcoholic finish and taste.

Aroma hops and belgian yeast; alcohol; maybe some citrus. Banana ans spice. Initially impressed. Color was a nice reddish amber-light copper. Pretty fizzy, medium white head. Good tasting; sipped it all night.

Easily the best beer i’ve had in quite a while. Well worth my 2 hour drive to get a case from the brewery.

I enjoyed this one. I sipped on it for over 3 hours, just enjoying the flavors, occasionally thinking that it could only have been better if it had less cotton candy, which lead me to think that if this was a little less geared towards being “12” it could be better. Don’t get me wrong I like it, I’m gonna buy more. It just seems that in the pursuit of higher alcohol it got a bit too saccharin in the first bit and then too much alcohol bite in the last bit. I love the pineapple, mango, and to a certain point the cotton candy flavor. The dark fruits mix with the lemon nicely. I see this as a dark tripel, or an imperial dubbel if you will. Fuck it is a pretty damn good beer. A bit too much rocket fuel in the nose hides the tapioca and banana that is there if you look lonmg enough. I do love the palate, this finishes dry but it works out here with the balance of sweet and alcohol to make it feel like satin on my tongue as it dries up. I’d love to try a version without the candy sugar, or whatever was used to pump up the abv, but I also want this version around for awhile. A yeasty coriander like flavor is very good in this, a nice vanilla taste too. A definite repeat purchase. The one word that comes to mind while drinking this is indulgent. 4 7 8 5 17