Middle Ages Tripel Crown

Pours gold with a large, pillowy head. Smells of dry malt, some Belgian ale yeast, sugary. Tastes grassy and sweet with dry malt profile and a yeasty finish.

2009 Bottle - Thanks corey70! - Pours a clear thick golden with a small white head...aroma is apple and bubblegum, sweet dough...flavour is similar, malty, caramel, yeast, lemony finish...not as sweet as the nose suggested, and didn’t taste like 10% to me....tasty...opens up a bit as it warms, still fairly light taste, more apple, some very light spice, alcohol comes thru a bit more as well, enjoyable...

Cloudy brown with a thin white head. Nose of sugary malt and alcohol. Flavor is sweet and malty with notes of caramel and toffee. Sharp alcohol bite leaving behind a pleasant warmth. Very tasty.

12oz bottle. Amber color. Aroma of sweetarts candy. Strawberry puree with green apples. Medicinal. Flavor of medicine. Blah!

Date: August 08, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip
Appearance: hazy orange, frothy off white head, bits of lace
Aroma: sweet candy malt aroma, nice balancing spices
Flavor: sweet candy flavor, lots of balancing spicyness, light bitterness follows the spices
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Appearance: Pours out a clearish, amber-hued body with a scant, whitish head. Smell: Sweet-scented nose of pale, lightly bready malts with a strong waft of a concoction made from juiced Red Delicious apples and distilled alcohol. A bit discouraging, really. Taste: Sugary sweet maltiness with a minor breadiness and taste of caramel. Fruity flavors of green raisins, but, mostly notably, it’s straight-up apples. The high alcohol content, as was the case with the aroma, is quite obvious. The taste of apples alternately pairs up with the alcohol to give an impression of apple schnapps or the high sweetness for a flavor of caramel apples. Either way, it’s kind of wearying. Plenty of peppery alcohol precedes the sweet finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Slightly sticky mouthfeel. Drinkability: A sugary sweet, alcoholic mess without the charm to help me look beyond its glaring faults. At first, I found the idea of a Belgian Tripel with a British twist to be interesting, but this is just a reckless beer. Pass.

Pours a clear copper color with a white head. Aroma is caramel, apple, vanilla, some grain, and some yeasty spicy notes. Flavor is caramel, green apple, vanilla, caramel, yeasty spicy notes, and alcohol

Poured flat with no head. Very thin. Some light fruit flavor. Sweet. Like a light mead. Hardly Belgian Strong Ale.