North Coast PranQster Belgian

Brewed by North Coast Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Fort Bragg, California USA

Bottle. Strong yeasty and fruity aroma with a hazy yellow and brown color. The yeast is what makes this beer. I can see how some may not like it. I, on the other hand, think it is great. It seems to go almost in a Witbier direction with the unfiltered appearance, but despite this the fruit and floral flavor is a nice change.

Highly rated but hardly impressive. Pours a golden yellow color with a moderate sized white head. Smells of yeast, sugar, malt, and flowers. Taste is offensive and unbalanced. Like eating a fist full of flowers with the sour yeast from a tripel.

strong yeast aroma with hints of bubble gum. hazy, deep gold in the center of the glass, sunny yellow on the edge. sweet bubble gum flavor in the beginning, hefty yeast sticks to the roof of my mouth. drinks quickly, very refreshing.

Did not enjoy this one to much. The aftertaste just kept on giving long after the drink was done.

wow, now here is a big surprise, wasnt expecting much from this. Light vanilla, oranges, yeasty and well balanced. If Leffe had any class, it would taste like this. Superb

on tap. deep golden, opaque. off white moderate head. aroma of spice and belgian yeast. slightly lacking in robustness of flavor, ie comes off slightly thin. However contains all the rich yeasty, malty, fruit components of a belgian strong, just to a lesser degree.

Pours a smoky orange with a yellow head that vanishes slowly. Mostly yeasty aroma. Flavor of pine and cloves with just a hint of alcohol. There is nothing unique about this beer except for the fact that it seems to drink so quickly.

Bottle poured into a Chimay goblet. Pours a hazy amber orange with a thin, fine, ivory head that reduces to a lasting white skin at the surface maintained by a constant supply of tiny bubbles. The nose is a nice, lightly spicy Belgian yeast with fruity esters of pear, citrus and light bubble gum, with a hint of candy sugar and blended floral notes tying the whole thing together. It smells much like a tripel. The mouthfeel is on the light side of medium-bodied with a nice, soft, tongue-coating carbonation of tiny bubbles and a clean, yeasty finish. The flavor is sweet and yeasty with notes of pear, peach, bubble gum, white pepper and floral hops lingering lightly at the mildly dry finish. It’s a tasty beer and probably my third favorite offering from North Coast, behind Old Rasp and Old Stock.