Orval

Brewed by Brasserie dOrval
Style: Belgian Ale
Florenville - Villers-d.-Orval, Belgium

Presented in its tulip glass, it makes a firm impression, a taste a little bit sour and refreshing. Ideal alcohol percentage

Into a tulip glass, it had a skyrocket head that almost flowed over the top. Settled into a bubble bath style foam. Pours an orangey color, kind of like a sunset. Smells like funk, I would think this is how James Brown’s music would smell, if it indeed did have a smell, also hints of woods, bread, and pine nuts. Very very light taste, definitely easy drinking. This is the real definition of drinkability. I swished it around to make the taste more prominent and got a light taste of rubbing alcohol. Has a very nice dry finish with a refreshing quality. This beer makes me happy to be alive.

An unclear golden brown beer with a nice frothy head. This beer looks good. The aroma is sour & green apples. The taste is again green apples, specifically like fermented fruit with a dry ending. The head has a nice retention & stays frothy for a long time. This is truly a great beer & a world classic.

Tastes a bit sour, with nice fruit notes of banana, apple, pepper and spice. Very refreshing and clean.

Great drinking this beer at last. Pours maple orange with high carbonation and huge tan head, fruit acidic aroma, yeast, grass and some wild notes, dry flavor with malt, fresh leaves, peach, lemon and pleasant bitter finish, complex and amazing

Rich amber/orange color; Medium creamy body; Aroma of yeast, citrus and spice; Flavor of bitter hops, citrus, a hint of cinnamon & lemon peel; Dry with some alcohol towards the finish; I didn’t know what to make of it at first – but I soon wanted another one.

This batch was bottled on 22/04/2009 with an expiration date listed as 22/04/2014. Perhaps I did not chill it enough but the poor was copper in color with an extremely lightweight and foamy beige head with the texture of cotton candy. The mild and enticing aroma had a good mixture of sweet malts and light hops. The mouthfeel is full bodied. The taste is an ecstatic dry hopped and sweet malt balance. Topnotch. Next time I will let it sit for a couple years but I was anxious to give it a whirl.

Orval has a fairly hazy brown / orange color. The foam is very high. The beer smells very special, hay and fruit is the first thing I thought of. Herbs, a little grape and apple. A different taste in many ways, the feeling of the liquid is dry. Bitterness is light and the beer is easy to drink. Ok beer but I was not totally convinced