Orval Trappist Ale
Drank this at the Heritage Belgian Beer cafe in Sydney. Pours a hazy dark burnt orange, head fades, but good lace. Light aromas of sour fruit. Some oakiness & gamey off-notes. Complex & intriguing. Flavours of leather, medicine/band-aids. Slight barnyard character, perfumy, with a late cherrywood aftertaste. Some bitterness, and astringency. The mouthfeel is very dry, almost dusty. Highly attenuated... thin, no sweetness. For me, this is truly the Burgundy of beers. Wild, gamey, dry, tannic, fleshy.