3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Thick off white head, amber in color. Malty aroma with raisin overtones. Medium bodied, good aftertaste. Delicious tripel, but I prefer Westmalle’s dubbel.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
11.2 oz bottle into Trappist glass. Compared side by side with Chimay White and with the rest of the Trappist beers I’ve drank tonight. These two beers are #5 and #6 in tonight’s Trappist tasting. Pours hazy gold with some sediment and a nice long-retaining head that leaves some nice lace. Aroma is spicy, tangy, funky, alcoholic, earth. Taste is bittersweet; underwhelming compared with the aroma; slightly better than the Chimay. Soft carbonation, medium body. Not as good as I was expecting.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Poured from 11.2 FL oz bottle - I’m not going to pretend I’m an Abby expert, so I will focus on drinkability. Pours a beautiful gold with a thin, fast-dissipating head. I’m not happy with the aroma--can’t really detect individual aromas. Quite dry; alcohol presence noticeable. This is a nice sipper.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Yeast developed spice and cloves in the aroma, with a light fruitiness. Malt is a very quiet caramel, it smells sneaky. There’s a metallic tinge, slightly tinny. Slight haze, light golden, beautiful lacy white head. Lots of drifting trub. Flavor is alcohol up front and finishing, Fusels seem out of balance. There’s lots of yeast developed flavor, spice and the higher alcohols. Very high carbonation. Creamy, warming (nearly hot), and medium body. This bottle seemed like it was a little off, alcohol was the dominant flavor to the detriment of malt and yeast flavors.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Bierkompass. Poured hazy orange color with a thick white head. Very spicy aroma, fruity notes and yeast. Flavor is spices again, sweet malt and yeast, alcohol pushing through. Slightly dry finish. Nice tripel ,but too much alcohol in the flavor does not really do it for me.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle:
Big white foamy head, disappears slow.
Hazy yellow color.
Smell fruit, sugars malts and spices.
Kind of a hard but also fresh taste: spices, yellow fruit, yeast, hops, grass and sweets.
Bitter dry in the end. Mid carbo.
Leaves lot of stuff in the glass.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JAN 28, 2011 Hazy orange yellow with a huge white froth that leaves nice lacings. Aroma is yeasty acidic malty with lemon, coriander, straw and marzipan some hop. Taste is big round and yeasty and quite sweet with oranges, orange peel. apples, pear and some candy notes . Fruity, "citrusy", yeasty and sweet with a bitter touch. Maybe a bit too sweet.
4.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Small bottle. Carefully poured into my new glass. Straw-golden body, fine head. Aroma has crisp hops, fresh citric fruits and cookie dough. Taste has mild fruity notes and good hop-bitterness. Exceptionally well rounded, the alcohol taste is still hidden at nearly 10%.
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