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Gouden Carolus Tripel

Percentile
97
overall
Brewed by Brouwerij Het Anker
Style: Abbey Tripel

Mechelen, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
6373.77/5.03.76/5.09%96.4Trappist glass, Tulip
Commercial Description:
In spite of modern brewing technology, this beer is brewed according to ancient traditions. It unites, now as in the past, the best products of our soil: rich barley and fine hops.. It's refined character, with a pure and rich taste, will captivate you. It is matured at length in cellar and bottle, and is guaranteed to be brewed only from pale malts. It is traditionally top-fermented and is 100% pure. The Gouden Carolus Triple has a unique colour and a full flavour due to its well-balanced hopping. To properly savour the Golden Carolus “Triple”, pour slowly in one movement leaving the yeast deposit in the bottle. This beer may be served cool but not chilled: 7-8°C is recommended. In 2002 this beer won the Gold Award in the World Beer Cup, San Diego, USA in the “Triple” category.
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 jcr (1148), Jasper, Indiana, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/515/20
Mar 15, 2009  
750ml. Huge, frothy, white, lasting head with a hazy golden, orange body. Pleasant aroma of flowers, herbs, toasted grain, pineapple, alcohol, lemon, coriander along with a slight mustiness. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. It fnishes lightly to moderately sweet and moderately bitter. Dry, peppery, alcoholic. Medium to full body with a smooth, velvety texture. Lively carbonation. A little alcoholic and It’s tastes are slightly disjointed, but overall a very nice tripel.


 wkalle (113), Sweden
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Mar 14, 2009  
Pours slightly hazy golden with thick white long lasting head with nice lacing. Yeasty spiciness in nose with green fruits and a faint vineous note. Flavor is spicy with some phenolics. Slightly sour maltiness. Finish is dry with a rather creamy palate.


 Pinball (2718), Allerød, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Mar 13, 2009  
75cl bottle, bbf 20-05-2011 L 0840, bought in superbest, allerød. the cork was almost self-ejecting, it went off as if it was champaigne. no beer spilled out. clear ever so slightly cloudy yellow, huge white head that soon becomes fluffy and collapses partly. very nice aroma balanced between citrus, spicy, and the sweetness of exotic fruits. flavor is quite sweet, banana, spices, aftertaste is liqueurish, to-the-point flavor, but also perhaps a bit too conventional. alc. reasonably well hidden. flavor is well balanced and rounded and does not, as some tripel’s have any sharp edges to it. this is a plus. honey. somehow almost reminds me of mead. beer is better than my rating, but then - i can’t give it 8 for flavor or aroma - that would need a wow! effect that i didn’t find. if you like belgian this one is a must to have sampled.


dEnk (8), Den Haag, Netherlands
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3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/512/20
Mar 10, 2009  
Medium body, sturdy head, yeasty aroma with a hint of banana, sweet taste with a hint of pepper and lemon.


 IlanMan (817), Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/514/20
Mar 9, 2009  
Bottle. Pour was light with a frothy white head. Aroma of pepper, yeast, light malt, and alcohol. Flavor was quite acidic but pretty well blended. Light body with a nice, fresh, spice character. Good brew.


 janubio (157), Spain
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/516/20
Mar 7, 2009  
Poured into a Gouden Carolus glass. Cloudy fainted yellow colour, an abslolutely enormous head that lasts for all its life in the glass. Fresh floral aroma, wet earth, clove, coriander and citrus.Harsh in the palate, with orange, cookies, dust, acidic finish. A very good one.


 austone (1036), Turku; Pori, Finland
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/514/20
Mar 1, 2009  
75cl bottle. Hazy yellow, tight pale head. Solid pilsner malty aroma, soft yeastiness, limefruit and wheat, clear witbier notes. Alcoholic flavor, yeastiness, mellow malts, peppery spicy finish. Some lime, overall a bit too boozy. Silky strong carbonation, very pleasant to sip. Alright tripel, nothing that interesting.


 ChristianScheffel (4481), Odense, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Feb 26, 2009  
Cloudy golden with a lasting white head. Aroma is vineous with sherry, some exotic fruit and spicy yeast. Spicy and fruity flavour, rather dry with a slightly hoppy finish.



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