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Gouden Carolus Tripel 3.76 644

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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6443.77/5.03.76/5.09%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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 LinusStick (1850), Moon Twp, suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/516/20
Apr 18, 2007  
On tap at the Sharp Edge Creekhouse. Nice tripel that I have been waiting a while to try. Pour was a cloudy gold with a finger head. Aroma was sweet and yeasty. Taste was strong and different than I’ve had for a tripel. Tasted like a yeasty dry Belgian with crushed up Fruity Pebbles in it yet had some citrus and lemon in the background. Perfumy in the mouth and in the swallow. This is a unique beer.


 Sham (1846), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Dec 5, 2004  
Hazy bronze with a huge foamy white head. Some spotty lacing. As said before by the heemster, a nose of caramel and pears. Alcohol as well. That was not hidden too well. Spicy, citrusy hops. The caramel comes out more, the alcohol is better hidden, and the pears aren’t really there. I do detect a touch, but not too much. Bitter hops roll into the equation here as well as hitting at the end with some pepperyness/spiciness. On the second drink, I do notice the alcohol, but nowhere is it as prevelant as in the nose. The body is nice and creamy with a spicy, tangy palate. Ends with fruit and spices... and hints of alcohol.


 thegreenrooster (1842), St.louis, Missouri, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Mar 23, 2007  
Pour is a golden with a super huge white head. Aroma is lots of yeast and cloves with some fruits showing up. Flaovr is a bit lower than the aroma but there are some sour fruit and a bit of honey. So-so for the style.


 SDbruboy (1832), San Diego, California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/516/20
Nov 1, 2006  
330 bottle, from BevMo LaJolla. Pours mostly clear, lemon-golden color with a large white head. Aroma of sugar cookies, peach, lemon, yeast, ’spring flower’ soap, wheaty notes, vanilla and floral hops. Flavor is sweet, sweet, candy sugar, and lemon, clover, tart floral notes, apricot, with a bready character, the signature GC yeast and a pleasant hop finish. Medium body and smooth mouthfeel.


 Dorwart (1828), Robbinsville, New Jersey, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/515/20
Aug 18, 2004  
Great big frothy head. Lasts for a while. Slightly creamy on top. Good carbonation. Nice soft aroma with peaches, bit of spice (corriander), yeast . Color is a nice golden orange. Slightly sweet and malty. Good bit of spice and alcohol warming. Soft mouthfeel. Finish is clean, slighly bitter and has a nice alcohol warming. SLight spice in there also. A very good triple.


 rederic (1815), montréal, Quebec, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Jan 26, 2007  
Cloudy yellow gold hue, with a rocky white head, leaving nice laces, yeasty fruity nose of citrus fruits, with pineapple, ripe apples, with a spicy coriander accent, with a grapefruit floral hops and a sweet honeyish pale malt aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, sweet candied lemon citrusy character, with flowery hop, releasing some grapefruit flavors, with a mellow honeyish warmth alcoholic mouthfeel, with coriander spiciness, ripe apples and pears fruitiness, and sweet pale malt, leading towards a faint dry hops bitterness, and an alcoholic warmth finih.


 Schroppfy (1813), Ohio, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/516/20
Mar 7, 2006  
Sweet upon full warming, yet still fairly clean. A bit of herbality cuts through the sugars. Some mushroomy woodiness, a little like what I get from aged Allagash Triple. Fair body and holds together well, if too sweet...The aroma is nicely spicy with pepper and pineish components. I haven’t seen this in 12 oz. lately - is this a new batch?


 thornecb (1805), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Nov 8, 2006  
Pours bright gold into a tulip. Bright white micro head slowly recedes. Sweet raisin aromas. Dry and tart with a lasting bitter/sweet finish.



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