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Gouden Carolus Tripel 3.76 643

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
6433.77/5.03.76/5.09%96.5Trappist 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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 MilkmanDan (1940), Eagan, Minnesota, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/58/103/517/20
Nov 22, 2002    Updated: Jan 25, 2003
Re-rate, 1/25/03. Still has an amazing nose, but the taste is very, very good in my second sample. Very spicy and zippy. Finish hangs around, nice, tasty, sugary ending to this brew. Original rating: Wondrous nose, spicy and fruity. Flavor starts quite nice, plenty of banana and zippiness, but the finish sort of disappears. Very dry, doesn't have any ending zing.


 StewardofGondor (1934), Washington Heights - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/104/515/20
Jan 5, 2007  
2006 bottle shared by tpkenned.
Hazed, buffed and pale yellow in color with a thick, tall and sudsy white head. Sweet, soapy lemon shine aroma is aided by shrocked lemon rind shavings, lemon-pistachio buttercream, coriander, vanilla beans and banana taffy. Sweet, creamy bananas meld with a lemon saltwater taffy character. Fluffy effervescence is well met by the dry, lemon buttered sourdough. Chewy sorghum and a sweetened papaya-banana smoothie characteristic eventually spinn into a dry, tropical and citric outtake. Full-bodied, followed by a sharp, dry cotton bitterness. Marigolds with a creamy nectar blanket envelops the palate with a vanilla mint creamy glossiness at the end.


 ABUSEDGOAT (1934), California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Jun 30, 2005  
Pours a fairly thick orangish brown body with a small but nice head. The aroma is fruity with hints of raisins. Sweet lingering finish, but not as good as their other brews that I’ve had.


 AmEricanbrew (1925), Wynot, Wyoming, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Jan 9, 2008  
75 cl. bottle pours a light amber fluid with a decent two finger white head. Smells peppery, lemongrass.Medium bodied with a bubbley, lively mouthfeel. Superb lemongrass, black pepper, leather, and woody oak wine barrel taste. Finishes with a slight hop - alcohol tang. Another great Belgium triple.2003


 Joeh (1908), Buckinghamshire, England
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Sep 17, 2004  
Bottle picked up in Belgium. Pours gold, white head. Spicy/peppery aroma. Interestingly it’s like a high gravity witbier, it shares similar spiceyness, and is without the dry hoppinness you find in some triples


 ucusty (1900), Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/103/515/20
Aug 28, 2008  
Wait a minute, Ethan just turned 21? I have been contributing to his delinquency for over a year now! Gold pour with a slight haze. Fluff white head a typical Gouden lace. Complex aroma, very fruity. Flavor is loads of fruit, malts and yeast. Well balanced and complex!


 jeffc666 (1893), Fairfax, Virginia, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/517/20
Jul 29, 2003  
Nice light malt aroma with hints of bread and other yeast aromas. Nice white head with fair lacing. A cloudy golden color.Heavy sweet flavors with slight bitter and sour falvors. Average finish with notes of alcohol. Medium bodied with a creamy/syrupy texture.


 emacgee (1891), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/517/20
Aug 28, 2008  
Pours a pale hazy yellow with a two finger creamy white head. The nose was sweet, yeasty, grapes, spicy, some white pepper, cardamom, orange peel and lemongrass show as it warms. The flavor was sweet, nice spicy/yeasty character, curacao, hoppyness shows as it warms, peppery. I’d have to say this is one of my favorite tripels, very nice and very gratifying as it warms.



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