Cybercat (421), Georgia, USA Sep 13, 2007 Pours a nice opaque dark honey golden with a VERY thick and persistent head - it is thicker than B.S. in Washington and stays better than whipping cream on hot coco. Aroma is strong and mainly malty with a touch of sweetness and a strong hop undertone. Flavor balances hop and malt components, with a little malt sweetness and some hop fruitiness, and a touch of bitter. This is a very drinkable and enjoyable ale. GreatLibations (1294), Sasquatcho, Arizona, USA Jun 16, 2006 Pours golden w/ parachute opened doin’ terminal velocity, creamy froth. It just won’t settle down. In the glass and mouth. Cold or warm, like popcorn kernals, the chute opens and expands like an explosion in evey sip. Champagne size bubbles.The froth settles into a sweet cream leaving a light nectar w/ ample residuals. Aromas of ripe banana and spice. Flavors are bracingly hoppy with lime rind and green bitter herb stems. Big piney hops up front with banna spice at mid palate, then finishing with a bitter asprin burn. The alcohol is well hidden. Well balanced. Overall: a complex brew to add to your list. A new style from Belgium for the hop-heads. Highly recommended. TheBeerLover (1013), DC Metro Area, USA Nov 14, 2006 11.2 oz bottle. Pours to a hazy golden color, with a tall, soapy, white head, and a lively carbonation. The nose on this beer is fantastic. In fact when I opened the bottle, hop aromas literally hit me from a foot away. Very fragrant, herbal/grassy hops flood the nose with some estery fruity aroma, and spicy yeast. The palate is firm, with really good pale/biscuity malt flavor, with some estery fruit flavor, and light notes of funky yeast flavor. This beer finishes with more good biscuity malt up front, then ends with a yeasty and grassy hop bite that lingers. Outstanding beer. This beer is 80 IBU and 9.5% abv, and is amazingly refreshing and drinkable for a beer so strong and with such bitterness. The ultimate aperitif beer, or after drink cocktail. I loved this one. beerbobWFM (17), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Apr 21, 2008 I loved this beer, I can’t say enough about it, definitely my new favorite belgian beer for sure. the color was a beautiful haze yellow, almost lemon curd like. nice thick white head. The flavor was subtly sweet a nice hoppyness, citrusy and slightly peppery
the finish was great ,a little hoppy and a tiny bit of alcohol warmth, all in all a great beer bhensonb (3005), Woodland, California, USA Apr 17, 2006 Hops just slide along the sides of the tongue. Something like a very hoppy trippel. Poured with a nice head - two fingers in a tulip glass. Hint of lemon grass, and, I like to think, apricot. Spice notes escape me. Most of that belgian candy sweetness has departed. Good, in this instance. So, relatively dry. I’d put this up against most double IPAs for hoppiness and enjoyability.
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