Totally streamlined and a bit stylistically unassuming, yet quite quenchable. Sweet-spiced grapefruit and orange tang as well as mild dark-roast graininess embittered by resinous piney hop char and mild juniper snip as ashen aftertaste ensues.
Tag Archives: OLD DOMINION BREWING
DOMINION CANDI BELGIAN TRIPEL
Understatedly tranquil for its style, despite blistering 10% ABV. Demure candi-sugared fruiting, mildly creamed vanilla-banana-clove influence, sedate Chardonnay buttering and sweet caramel malting contrast musty cellared fungi dirge. Just below the fragile surface lies cling peach, sugarplum, lemon meringue, red cherry, fig, apricot and peach tones as well as latent curacao and mandarin orange tanginess.
