Gouden Carolus Tripel

Brewed by Brouwerij Het Anker
Style: Abbey Tripel
Mechelen, Belgium

After the great cider purge of 2007, this one comes in at rating no. 1250. Bottle, corked and caged. Sweet aroma, yeasty with sugar and a touch of apple juice. Hazy golden with a beautiful white head, rocky and full. Taste is smooth and lightly crisp, yeast and light citrus blended well with light flowers and lighter apple juice. Spicy and a bit pushy, lots of heft from the alcohol without being overbearing. Ending acidity does wonders to balance out the sweetness. A really pleasant surprise - I wasn’t expecting this kind of monster!

Aroma:brown sugar,caramel,fruity.... Appearance:light hazy gold,huge white head.Good carbonation..... Flavor:caramel-brown sugar,floral,light alcohol,banana....

Sweet floral aroma. Milky amber color with a beautiful fluffy white head. Candy sugar sweetness int he fore followed by some floral flavors and malt. Finishes very suddenly and leaves a lip smacking fruity malt aftertase.

(draft @ The Old Toad - Rochester, NY) Thick and cloudy orange color with a white head. Aroma has lots of spices, malts, yeast and some citrus I believe. Flavor begins very sweet and malty with a nice and smooth flow all throughout the beer. Finish is very smooth and warming and it hides the alcohol until it gets pretty warm. Then you can taste the full 9%. I definitely knocked back a couple of these babies. Very tasty.

bottle. golden-amber body, small white head. alcoholic caramel aroma with lots of sugar. lively carbonation. sweet caramel flavour with some cookies in the finish. I wasn’t expecting this beer to taste like this but it turned out to be tasty and flavourful.

Wow. Not a big fan of tripels but Maibockaddict and I shared this. Deep yellow in color. Excellent. 750 ml bottle. Big fluffy white head. Dried fruit flavor. Big and malty. enjoyable.

Golden straw. Voluminous white head smatters intricate lacework all over the glass. Lovely aromas of pineapple, pear, honeydew, lime peels, airy phenols, peppery hops, and candy sugar intermingle with hints of licorice, bubblegum, and sweet vanilla-cake maltiness. Quite vibrant and complex. Firm effervescence tickles the palate. Succulent yet dry with an explosion of fresh oranges and pineapple combined with a savory tandem of herbal and floral hops. Malts are clean and pillowy, and the combination of puttylike yeast and tropical fruit esters adds to the soft feel and uplifting nature despite the high alcohol. Hops continue to contribute their zesty sparkle while evoking thoughts of aniseed and lime peels as they tease the tongue with a pleasantly tight and refined bitterness. Rich wafery malts bolster the body’s core with a well-textured softness which echoes the faint candy sugar remnants. Zingy alcohol complements the peppery hops and neutralizes some of the sweetness before warming the gullet. Bright tangerine is sandwiched between the zippy dryness and sugary malts at the finish, before a seamless transition to feisty lingering snippets of coriander, snappy phenols, and herbal hops. This has always been a solid beer, but I especially like this particular bottling with all its cohesiveness and interesting yeast- and high-fermentation-derived nuance.

cloudy honey colored under a medium sized fizzy white head. aroma of vanilla, marshmallow, tropical fruit, alcohol. flavor is spicy and fruity with notes of apples, huge bubblegum notes with pineapple, and marshmallow. some alcohol shows up.