Lazy Boy Belgian Strong Golden Ale

Brewed by Lazy Boy Brewing
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Everett, Washington USA

Bottle sampled on 8/7/08: Pours a transparent golden bronze with a thin-lacing wispy white head. Aroma of mild, lightly sweet toasty maltiness and a hint of earthy grassy musty hops. Body starts with some effervescence and a touch of sweet candi sugar with mild musty bittering hops. Has some authentic Belgian qualities, but needs more balance.

Originally tried at Summit Tavern, re-sampled last night at Naked City Anniversary Party. I can see how the candy sweetness would get to be too much after a while, but I’m surprised at the low concensus ratings here. It’s not all that bad.

22oz. Bottle: Aroma of fruit, light yeast, slight spices, slight bubblegum, and a hint of banana. Poured orange/amber in color with a tiny, fizzy, off-white head that disappeared quickly. Cloudy. Sparkling. Many tiny, small, and medium-sized particles. Flavor is medium sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of fruit, candi sugar, yeast, slight spices, grains, pale malts, vanilla, and light tartness. Medium body. Thin, lightly sticky, lightly dry texture. Average carbonation. Sweet, fruit, yeast, candi sugar, and vanilla finish is slightly sticky and slightly dry.

on tap at Virginia Inn. Body was orange/light amber. Aroma is light funky fruits. Palate is balanced, but left with little noticeable nose.

Bottle... Poured a cloudy, golden-orange color. Citrus esters and spices on the nose. Well carbonated. Yeasty fruit flavors and some malt grains. A little bit of a tangy, sour quality. A little musty fruit quality with some cloves.

Bomber shared by MaxxDaddy. Pours a hazy light orange with a thin head. Aroma is orangey with lots of malt sweetness, grassy, sharp phenols light bubblegum, with DMS and vegetal notes. Medium sweetness in the flavor, toast, sharp almost carapils sweetness, light breadiness, with orange zest, and an almost pine sol solvent cleanser type thing in the middle and end with lemon earth and spicy yeast. light astringency and some harsh bittering.

22 oz. bottle purchased at Central Market in Mill Creek, WA. Pours a pleasant orange/amber color. Flavor: Sweet with a slight sour note, with a little spice and dried fruit.

A reasonable pour summons forth a three-finger thick, lightly tan colored head as well as sticky, sweet aromas of honey. The beer is a full gold color that shows a brilliantly clear, bright gold color when held up to the light. The big honey note seems to fade quickly and I am left with notes of pear, an herbal sort of malt note, some spicy clove and a dry cracker like grain character. The finish has a touch of alcohol spiciness / heat to it, but this is fairly soft. The aroma is a bit on the muted side with the fruitiness being the most dominant note.

Fairly dry, in fact quite dry, the beer even has a tartness to it that lightly influences the flavor. This has enough carbonation to provide a bit of a peppery bite as well as some texture. There is also a fermentation derived spiciness to this brew that provides / boosts the pepper note as well as providing some clove notes, a touch of ginger and some earthy spiciness. This beer is quite light bodied which makes it quite quaffable. As the beer warms up it picks up just a hint of sweetness in the finish. There is also a soft fruitiness here that reminds me of pears and green apples and perhaps a touch of floral honey in the finish.

This is an interesting beer, I wasn’t expecting very much from this, so it has exceeded my expectations. I definitely like how dry it is and even the hint of tartness just makes this a little more interesting and quaffable. This beer is decent, even if not overly interesting.