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Struise Tsjeeses

Percentile
96
overall
Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Abbey Tripel

Oostvleteren, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
3283.77/5.03.75/5.0Winter10%96.2Trappist glass, Tulip
Commercial Description:
Deep to orange blond abbey triple winterbeer which has been lagered for 8 months on different stonefruits. Tsjeeses was born out of a 5 year brew experience regarding x-mas beer without being capable of finding a suitable name up to now. With the name came a face, a caricature actually, that was drawn on the day Urbain, our brew master and master brewer, drank too many Tsjeeses's. Every time he drinks one, he says "Tsjeeses, what a beer". Therefore the name is more an expression of stupefaction than a curse. We have had already many discussions around the pronounciation of "Tsjeeses". Very close would be that you say "cheeses" or cheese in plural.
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 WinoInTraining (107), Longmont, Colorado, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/515/20
Dec 11, 2008  
330ml bt. Pale butter cream colored head. Deep, opaque sultana bronzy color. Nose reminds me almost exactly of a big ol back of freshly harvested Chanterelle mushrooms, Apricots and earth. Tastes like biting an underripe peach thats 10 abv.Nice mouthfeel. Not my favorite


 michael-pollack (2697), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Dec 11, 2008  
330ml Bottle: Sweet aroma of malts, spices, yeast, and fruit. Aroma makes me a little nauseous. Poured amber/golden/copper in color with a medium-sized, dense, fizzy, off-white head that diminished but lasted throughout. Cloudy. Very sparkling. Full of many particles of all sizes throughout. Small lacing. Flavor is medium sweet. Tastes of malts, grains, yeast, fruit, herbs, light spices, raw dough, and bread. Medium to full body. Thick, chewy, sticky texture. Average carbonation. Sweet, bready, herbal finish.


 Crosling (1854), Loveland, Colorado, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/518/20
Dec 10, 2008  
Golden bronze colored ale, with a beautiful head of white creamy foam. Flavor is elegant and well structured, loaded with depth and nuance. Very sweet, well layered and complex, with well concentrated flavors from start to finish. Notes of peach and pear. Elegant mouth fell. Purely Belgian in every way. Wow, wow, wow. STUNNING.


 StFun (535), Indiana, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Dec 7, 2008    Updated: Jan 9, 2009
Little let down here. Nice triple, but not my favorite at all. Pours a dark orange, with an aroma full of yeast and spice. Flavor is nice, notes of light fruit, spice, vanilla, oak. Way too subtle. No real complaints here, just that the price is double what similar beers run.


 thornecb (1782), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/59/105/517/20
Dec 2, 2008  
Pours deep chunky gold into a tulip. Offwhite head recedes to skim surface. Apple and pear aromas. Tingly upfront with sour apple turning to a pleasingly viscous apple pie filling. I want another.


 Suttree (2732), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Dec 1, 2008  
Muddy brown, thick beige head. Very fruity aroma - lots of cherry, plum, peach smells. Flavor is also sweet and fruity, but a particularly agreeable sweet flavor. Usually a beer this sweet would be kinda tedious, but i really liked it. As it warms, some pineapple notes emerge, and finally some sage-like notes and a winey finish.


 Scauca (413), Lovere, Italy
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/515/20
Dec 1, 2008  
Hazy lumpy golden with a nice thick vanishing white head. Sweet weak nose. Some spices. Flavours are also quite hidden to be fair, but has a fantastic creamy, velvety palate if cold, quite burning mouthfeel as it warms.


 Travlr (746), Washington, Washington DC, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/58/104/515/20
Nov 28, 2008  
No aroma to speak of. Lots of competing flavors here - sour lemon, orange, cinnamon. I may ave to try this one again....



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