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Val-Dieu Grand Cru

Percentile
96
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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2393.74/5.03.71/5.010.5%89Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
The new masterpiece from the Val-Dieu brewery. A very complex and full-bodied beer with a long aftertaste. The brewmaster advices to cellar the beer for a year for it to unfold its full potential.
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Slokop (94), Tilburg, Netherlands
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Mar 6, 2009  
This 75 cl bottle with plastic cork pours a little vreamy head. It is sweet and not very distinguished bitters. This bottle was abou one year old and this keeping from drinking makes this beer somewhat flatter then I remembered last time I drank it. Aftertaste is short and mostly dark mouth and small bitters. Nice but not that sophisticated.


 zapprentice (310), East Setauket, New York, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Mar 1, 2009  
Very good Belgian, sweet aroma, little head. Pours dark caramel color. Smooth finish, long after taste. Very enjoyable beer. On tap at Publick House


 thenick (744), North Bellmore, New York, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/515/20
Feb 23, 2009  
Tap @ Publick House, Brookline MA. Pours a dark brown with a lacy off-white head. Aroma is dark fruit, toasted malt, yeast, and chocolate. Taste is dark ftuit with malt and chocolate notes with a prune/date finish at the end. The beer remains smooth and drinkable with an ease that belies the alcohol content. Well-done.


 rederic (1811), montréal, Quebec, Canada
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Feb 5, 2009  
750ml bottle, dark brown color, with a creamy beige head, leaving some laces, yeasty, fruity, toasted, caramelized malt nose, with some chocolatey, cookie, bready dough accents, with some fruity dried plummy, datey, raisiny esters, with a hint of candi sugar, molasses, and a chocolate praline aroma follows through on a full-bodied palate with a sweet toasty, caramel malt, cookie dough character, with some fruity dried notes od raisin, fig, date, plum, with a spicy nutmeg, anise, chocolatey, mochaish accent, within a dark candi sugar, molasses sweetness, leading towards a warming, malty, chocolatey, fruity pruney, datey finish.


 nickd717 (1332), Palo Alto, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/104/516/20
Jan 27, 2009  
On tap at City Beer Store in SF. Pours a dark brown color with purplish hue and off-white head. Aroma not particularly strong, sweet with dark fruits. Flavor is sweet malt, dark fruits, vinous notes, yeast, and sugar. Medium to full mouthfeel. A nice beer overall.


 Straling (185), Heerlen, Netherlands
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/515/20
Jan 23, 2009  
Bottle 75cl. Pours a dark coppor colour with a normal size head and little carbonation. Smell is very much that of dried fruits, such as plums and raisins. Taste is about the same with also some good spices there in the mix. Good beer.


 altonbrownd (1891), Amsterdam, Netherlands
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/515/20
Jan 12, 2009  
Bottle from Delhaize. Nice dark colour. Sweet, fruity nose. Caramel and sugary taste. Very nice and apropos for the holidays.


 Travlr (727), Washington, Washington DC, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Jan 10, 2009  
Draught at Birreria Paradiso. Maroon, very sweet aroma. Tastes of honey, malt, wood and pine. Nice finish.



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