Unibroue Trois Pistoles

Pours a pepsi cola color with carbonation bubbles mixed in. Look ominously dark but is surprisingly refreshing in taste. Notes of fruit, and a hint of wine in the taste. This beer goes down very smoothly and the 9 percent will catch you off guard.

Poured like a soft drink and looked like cola. Had an aroma of fruits. There was an overbearing flavor of liquorice.

12oz bottle. Pours a dark brown with a bubbly head that dissipates faster than any brew I have ever seen. Almost looks like I am pouring a cola. Aroma of roasted malt, dried fruits, yeast, banana, and caramel. Flavor is similar with the addition of a bit of sweetness, chocolate, and a slight tartness. Mouthfeel is not my style, since it is very fizzy and slick. Maybe I need to try the 750 to truly understand this one.

Bottle from Pacific Liquor in North Park (San Diego, CA). Pours a dark brown with ruby highlights and a thick beige head which quickly disappears. Very cola-like in appearance. Sweet aroma of yeast, dark malts, and stone fruit (plum and cherry). Caramel malty flavor with nice mild sweetness. Additional complex flavors -- yeast and I get some cherry and other fruit. A bit of smooth chocolate is also present toward the finish. The 9% goes down very easy. An excellent beer.

355mL bottle from www.Beerstore.co.nz. Pours deep, deep ruby red. Fizzy tan head, dissipates quickly. Very sexy. Aroma is very fruity, boysenberries and coriander herbs are strong. Can smell some sugar sweetness, very nice aroma. Flavour initially reminds me of a tripel, but then mellows out to a yeasty flavour. Once warm there’s a bit more body to it. Slightly astringent. Nice berry like finish. Didn’t live up to the big expectations, but still a very nice beer.

Nice looking, very dark with a small but persistent white head. Aroma is light but vinous with esters and deep fruity malt. Mouthfeel is smooth, body is medium and flavour? Flavour is big with loads of fruit and berries. Finishes with some lovely vinous black currant flavours.

Jersey Wegmans: Immediate aroma after cork popping, dark malts. Initial head is great, although dissipates quickly. First taste is of dark, roasted, even burned flavors - fruits, malt, slight bitterness, alcohol finish.

All of the unibroue belgian offerings are pretty good, had this on tap as well as bottled. Had basically the same pleasant reaction to both. Very dark beer with a plethora of flavors. since they are as expensive as the rochefort or orval, etc offerings i would suggest them over this beer.