 gunhaver (1025), Tampa, Florida, USA
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Aug 6, 2008 ~RBSG ’08~
Bottle at the Grand Tasting. Pours a golden color, with thick white head and creamy lacing. Aroma is like most tripels: some dry yeast, apples, lemon, citrus, banana. Flavor presents more of the same. Fairly basic overall and not exciting enough to really capture my attention. Crisp body, relatively easy to drink otherwise. ABV was fairly hidden.
bitbucket (2033), Kirkland, Washington, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Aug 5, 2008 750, corked and baled. Thanks, BVC! Murky gold with a thick and lacy off-white head. Apple and lemon aroma. Taste of oxidized apple, toffee. Dry and just a bit spicy finish.
after4ever (2741), Brier, Washington, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 3, 2008 750, corked and baled. Thanks, BVC! Murky burnished gold. Dense, thick, lasting platinum blonde head. Green apple and candi sugar nose. Sweet, fizzy, sugary, and still somehow quite delicious mid-palate. Mild finish.
logantownsend (15), bonner springs, Kansas, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 29, 2008 A beautiful pour, the color is a nice clear amber. The head is thick and fluffly and lingers for awhile. Not as much lacing as i would have liked. Smells of clove and citrus with a hint of yeast. The taste delivers. A well done belgian ale from boulevard.
wxman (587), O’Fallon, Illinois, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 28, 2008 Pours a cloudy sedimented pale golden accompanied by a big thick eggwhite-like head. Aroma is sweet and fruity. Taste is smooth and refreshing; a combination of sweet pale malt, fresh bananas and clove. A bisquity character is present as well. Alcohol is almost un-noticeable. A very good effort!
KingpinIPA (842), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 |
Jul 19, 2008 Thanks to brewblackhole. Amber color. Smell of yeast, dark fruit, hops, pepper, clove, ginger, brown sugar and alcohol. Taste of yeast, malt, light citrus, dark fruit, hops, pepper, clove, ginger, brown sugar and alcohol.
MrBunn (1533), Western, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 17, 2008 750 ml bottle. So this is the last of the Smokestack beer for me to try... So far I would rate the series as a very pleasant surprise, so expectations are pretty high. Pour demonstrates very heavy carbonation (inch or two of beer, the rest of the glass is head). What beer there is is orange with a slight cloudiness to it. Aromas are sweet (honey and glazed donut), a touch or cloves and oranges and some alcohol. Flavor is OK, but maybe it needs some time to balance things out a little better. The alcohol comes off as a bit sharp and burns a bit... almost overpowering the rest of the flavors. The sweetness, cloves and citrus flavors come through, but get a bit swamped by all of the astringency. Still, this is enjoyable enough, but all remaining bottles I buy will be the IPA from the series.
BlackDonald (1127), Boise, Idaho, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 16, 2008 Updated: Jul 31, 2008750ml Bottle from Happy Hour (batch # T8067) - This is a lovely little beer. Pours a rosy garnet shade of orange, with a quickly dissolving white head, that just leaves an ever so slight ring of bubbles. Cookie dough nose, with some yeastiness, clove and banana a bit of sugar cookies and citrus hoppiness. The taste is very nice, not overly sweet, with ample carbonation levels, some caramel, and has kind of a gumminess to it, that sticks around into a really long lingering finish. Its going to be a long strange trip to the end of this bottle. I’m not sharing this with anyone but myself tonight.
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