Gouden Carolus Tripel

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

100th rating! [Bottle] Poured hazy gold with a large whiteish head. Aroma is spicy and sweet, with lots of bready yeast. Flavor is very nice. Typical belgian yeastiness. Perfect amount of spices and carbonation. Very light mouthfeel, and pretty much no alcohol detected.

330 ml Bottle. Deep gold with high carbonation in straight rising lines and a huge rocky head. Estery, spicy aroma with citrus, bananas, and cream. Estery, citrus flavor, with some peppery hops, something like wheat malt (corn can taste like this?), a touch of coriander , and banana. Very bubbly, champagne-like carbonation, yet rich and full, silky, creamy, smooth mouth. Rather strong hop bite at the end. Powerful, flavorful, aromatic tripel with great balance.

Pours a glden orange out of the bottle with a massive bubbly white head. Aromas of soft fruits (banana, pear, papaya), floral notes, and bready yeast. Mouth feel is great! light airy bubbles fill your mouth and surround your tongue. Flavors are fairly similar to the nose, soft fruits, floral notes, some citrus (lemon), and a bready yeast. Nice slightly bitter finnish from the hops. Very good beer.

330 ml bottle. Thick, deep golden hazy color, smallishoff-white head. Big choco-caramel-banana aroma with loads of spiciness (cinnamon, white peppe); lovely vanilla late in the nose. Gorgeous! Really spicy on the tongue, as pointed out in the last review...luscious candied fruits, light alcohol, and a small herbal component. Medium to high carbonation, medium acidity, impressively balanced between the sugar and late acidic sourness. Another glorious concoction from the folks at Het Anker, not quite up to the d’Or or Kaiser, but still wonderful and necessary.

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.

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

Malty, raisinny aroma. Sweet, malty, raisinny, peppery taste. Long peppery bitter finish. From the bottle it has a flowery, honeyish aroma. Tap: unfiltered. Cafe Morshuis Albergen. Lemonaroma, initial lemon and vanilla flavor. After that loads of hops. Strong long lasting hoppy aftertaste. The 9% ABV is not noticed at all. Pity the beer was served too cold. Bottle, 3 years old: Vinous aroma with remaining flowery hops and orange. Fusel alcohols in the flavor, that is becoming like old brandy. Vinous, notes of sherry. Alcoholic, but still satisfyingly balanced. Nice!

A dark golden body holds up a white head that seems like liquid shouldnt be able to support, it is huge, thick, and never ending. the aroma is a busy and begiuling one. there is a creamy, orangy aroma with some spices thrown in for good measure. I wish that i was able to culture this yeast when i tried it but i didnt have anything handy to do so. the flavors this beer had were magnificent. lots of tropical fruity flavors. the body is somewhat thick and it coats the inside of the mouth yeilding a long lasting aftertaste. the finish is a cross between sweetness and some spices, an extremely good balance. i need to find a way to get more of this beer.