Cazeau Tournay Blond/Dorée

Brewed by Brasserie de Cazeau
Style: Abbey Tripel
Templeuve, Belgium

Bottle. Muddy golden colour with a huge mostly lasting white head. Rich malty aroma and taste with fruity notes. Good beer.

Pours a cloudy light orange color with a ring of white lace. Very enjoyable aroma and flavor of orange peel and yeast. The body is light with a creamy texture and gentle carbonation. Very good.

Bottle at home - shared with family. Clear to unclear ( i got some yeast) - white head. Fruity & Hoppy Aroma. Taste: Citrus, orange, light wheaty, light yeasty, fruity, light spicy, nice medium hoppy. Soft finish !!

blond coloured witk light carbonation body and a large white head a fruity aroma a some what yeasty taste and a fruity yeasty finich

Best Before 2007 750mL bottle drunk on 5/26/07
Thankfully pale malts don’t oxidize as quickly and/or poorly as dark ones do because here is yet another example of my previous infatuation with aging beers gone bad. I waxed the cap, so I’m thinking that helped lock in some carbonation, and certainly this was well-carbonated with a fluffy white head. But it just seemed tired, with lots of dustiness and a fair amount of vanillin.
Though, it’s interesting to note that perhaps giving a beer a few years really allows you to see what it’s made of. Fresh Belgian strong goldens are (usually) quite liberally hopped and so full of overt phenols/esters that you cant get the full story of the malt intricacies. Or maybe that’s just a bunch of schlock. Either way, I know this would have been quite different fresh. Very sugary, with lots of honey and sweet cookie dough, it has a fair amount of breadiness with a trailing esteriness (heavy banana and peach, some nectarine). Carbonation is mostly tight, but there is a bit of looseness near the finish. Aroma has some powderiness and lots of adjunct sugar apparency hiding behind the big ester bouquet. Surprisingly still spicy (white pepper and coriander) despite there being no spice addition.
I’ll probably score it for how it was in this aged condition. I’d imagine that fresh, it must be very sweet (it’s quite sweet as is here) so that would probably balance the extra points I’d give it for a more presumed bright flavor/aroma. No alcohol noted.

Bottled. Golden coloured. Unclear. Fluffy off white head. Citric, fruity, yeasty and spiced aroma. Flavour is yeasty and fruity. Has some spicy notes. Is quite bland. Medium bodied. Ends on a fruity light spiced note.

Bottle 0,75ltr: Hazy blond brew thats has more of a Tripel-brew, some sweetness, hints of coriander taste.

Bottle. Creamy white excellent mostly lasting head. Dark yellow colour. Fantastic hoppy flowerycomplex aroma. Alas not so grteat flavor. Moderate bitter. Very acetic bitter finish. Creamy palate. Not my favorite.