Great Divide Hades

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

Bottle. Pours a pale yellow colour. Bit sweet, spiced, nice hoppy and bit grassy aroma. The flavour has a little sweetness, some yeast, some spices, good hoppiness. Thanks BelJohansen.

75 cL bottle, thanks to BelJohansen. Pours clear yellow and with a lacing white head. Fresh hoppy aroma, slight grassy. Flavour is fresh hoppy, light sweet and with a mild spice note. Lingers into the finish with a little alcohol warmth. Quite fresh hoppy brew, but close to a German pilsner. Best US imitation of a German pilsner, but so close that I wonder why I should drink this compared to the German originals. I only vaguely sense the Belgian yeast.

Bottle @ Ølbaren, Cph. [thank you, Yespr]
Pours a pale yellow, light haziness throughout. A small film head on top. Aroma is sweet at first, kind of reminds me of a tripel. Some peach and grassy notes appear as well, and get stronger as the beer heats up. An okay, lightish body. Flavour is rather German, dominated by grassy hops, high carbonation and a light spiciness (diverging from the German analogy). A touch of a metallic aftertaste appear as well. This is a good pilsner, an okay Zwickel, an acceptable Belgian Ale, but below par for Great Divide.

Clear Golden with tiny head. Sweet fruity aroma with peach and discrete yeasty notes. Flavor is somewhat sweet with peach and grassy notes. Pretty watery.

(22oz bottle) Purchased at some yet to be known store on Olive Way in Seattle. Good prices and only a couple of blocks West of Stumbling Monk. Lasting white creamy head with a hazy gold body. Nose of peaches, coriander, orange peel, lemon zest and vanilla. Very light and enjoyable flavour - hard to believe this is only 7.3% ABV. Somewhat like Saxo, a staple in my Belgian diet. This beer is very refreshing and crisp. Impressed!

22 oz bottle from Beerworld of Largo. Hazy blonde in color with a medium sized off white head that retains well and leaves some nice belgian lacing on the glass. Aroma: very nice with alot of musty basement and light notes of bread, lemon zest, spices, spicy hops and fresh pale malt. Taste is a bit weird however, starts off nice with a light honey sweetness, pale malt, and then becomes quite harsh across the palate- overly bitter grassy hops, a bit acidic, watery, bland and muddled. bone dry. Not good but this appears to be the first attempt at a belgian for them- I am sure GD will dial this one soon as they are a quality brewery.

22oz. Pours a clear amber, with a massive white head (although I attempted it one-handed). Head settles to a sliver after a few minutes, with some moderate lacing. Odd malty aroma, and clear appearance, gives you a first impression of Old English. However, flavor is all-together different. Well balanced malt/hops with a strong flavor of lemon, banana, cloves and cinnamon. It was a shock that the 7.x% alcohol isn’t noticable. The mouthfeel is light, and mostly uncarbonated. The commercial description is "complex" but I’d say "strange". Not terrible, but not a far from a favorite.

Cloudy pale yellow that creates a tall thin white head. Yeasty aroma, lemon, honey, and light spice as well. Flavor is refreshingly light, some honey, and yeast with a light spiciness in the finish.