Whats In The Glass

[Tony]

Second tasting of my delivery of nice beers

Westmalle Tripel

I was a bit disaponted in paying so much for a single bottle of beer and recieving it with a best before that ran out a month ago. But i got to thinking.......... this is a 9.5% Belgian beer......... i doubt it will ever go stale, in fact it may just get better.

Poured a wonderful deep gold, a bit cloudy as the yeast hadnt completly settled from the postal trip but who cares

Aroma is sweet and luscious, mild fenolics and a touch of sweet fruit.
Sweet in the mouth with just a tad of bitterness to prevent a cloying finish. Sweet clean malt and an almost candy character. Spicy finish with low fenolics and furitiness.

Too easy to drink for a 9.5% beer!

Very glad i bough this to try.

cheers

Edit: looks darker in the pic than it is due to overcast day

 

[Muggus]

Yum Westmalle Tripel! :icon_drool2:

Nice one Tony, one of my favs. That and Tripel Karmeliet...as good as golden beers get!

 

[Tony]

Oh yeah........ there is one mouthfull left in the glass. Im not wanting to drink it cause then it will all be gone

My benchmark for Tripels has been set!

 

[Muggus]

Your Tripel consumption made me a bit jealous, so I grabbed the nearest Belgian Strong I could find...

...which just happened to be my Behemoth Belgian Strong Ale, straight from the cellar.

Solid 9.3% alcohol. T-58 yeast.
Carbonation is just starting to take shape. Big, sticky mouthfeel. Toffee and raspberry seems to go along with the red-hue of the body. A
lot happening on the body but its still too easy to drink!

 

[bonj]

Oktoberfest:

Tony's Bright Ale

 

[Tony]

My Brother rang me this arvo from a bottolo in newey asking me what this fullers Organic honey dew was. I said i dont know but get me a bottle as well! I asked him if they had any Unibroue beers there and he found the 4 pack of whats in the picture. Sounds interesting, tripple fermentation with 3 different yeasts, 9% mmmmmm

Put one of the Unibroue's and the Fullers beer in the fridge to sample tomorrow. Will updaye with a report and pics

cheers

 

[Barramundi]

Managed to finally get to the Wine Emporium on Ann Street today and picked up a bunch of beers including some Meantime varieties, SNPA and a bunch of others including my winter standby.

But tonight I just knocked off a couple:

The Bridge Rd Bavarian Wheat wasn't too bad for a wheatie, subtle banana smell, great flavour.

Kudo's goes to the Milliacus Bier de Garde Ambree - very nice drop, will be getting more.

And the Monteiths Doppelbock (my winter standby) - a very enjoyable beer, nice roasty malts and a subtle caramel sweetness, not cloying at all.

that winter doppel bock is quite a nice beer , have had a few of those now ...

got a 500ml bottle of an english oatmeal stout on friday night that for the life of me cant remember what it was called will have to get another to refresh my memory ...

 

[THE DRUNK ARAB]

Jeffery Hudson Bitter from Oakham Ale Brewery in Peterborough(UK)

Great malt flavour and floral hop aroma!

 

[Tony]

First up....... the Fullers Honey Dew

Very low carb, endeed up flad before i finished it.

Low on flavour, body, bitterness, character

Couldnt even pick the honey

Smells remotly of EKG and tastes like its been brewed with the usuall Fullers yeast

I think this is Fullers atempt at drawing in tasteless lager drinkers to fullers beers and laes in general.

Wont bother again.

3 out of 10!

 

[Tony]

Second attempt........ now we are talking

Unibroue - La Fin Du Monde (Or "The End Of The World" for us)

Nice golden colour, Hazy and nicly carbed.

Aroma of a great belgian Tripel. Sweet, fenolic, Spicy.
Mediun light to medium body, smooth sweet malt and a good whack of yeast character. Very complex. Malt, yeast and light hops all mingle well. Perfect bitterness...... you know its there but you dont notice it if you know what i mean.

Out of 10 the Westmalle Tripel would have got 8.5 for me. This gets a 7.5 / 10

Very VERY glad i got a 4 pack

 

[Muggus]

La Fin Du Monde is very yum also. Tried it for the first time only a couple of weeks back...750ml corked bottle all to myself, needless to say it went down WAY TO EASY! :icon_drunk:
Manage to scam another corked Unibroue beer (and more) on the same shopping trip...

Anyone tried this one? I'm still tossing up whether to cellar it or drink it now!

 

[Tony]

Where did you pick that up mate?

 

[Muggus]

Harrigans Cellars, in Pokolbin, Hunter Valley...of all places.
Was up that way July visiting wineries, and couldn't help but drop by and see what they had in the way of beer.

 

[eric8]

Harrigans Cellars, in Pokolbin, Hunter Valley...of all places.
Was up that way July visiting wineries, and couldn't help but drop by and see what they had in the way of beer.

Maybe we can ask Pok to pick somw up for us? I have a four pack of that La Fin Du Monde, well it's two now. I loved it, I think it was definitely one of the best beers and tripels I have had.

 

[barls]

hate to tell you but i was there on the weekend and there was no bottles of the 16 i saw.

 

[Tony]

Rats!

I work at a coal mine near Broke and the back way home takes me past there!

might drop in and have a look anyway

cheers

 

[Muggus]

From what i've read up about it on Ratebeer, it seems like an interesting beer.
Also seems that its "retired" and might be hard to track down a bottle.

 

[AlwayzLoozeCount]

I won 5 cartons of beer down at the local the other day. I needed this like a hole in the head.

 

[Katherine]

Congratulations... that is just worth the smile... Look your sorted for christmas! Visitors beer.

Reminds me of the pub I work at... they have chase the ace if you dont pick the correct card you get a carton of beer up to the value of $80.00... the amount of Carlton Midstrengths that have gone amazes me!

 

[Duff]

I won 5 cartons of beer down at the local the other day. I needed this like a hole in the head.

Just think of the buckets of beer batter you can make.