Sunday, November 22, 2009

Trappist summary

I have now tried beers from all of the trappist breweries. I'm still missing a few beers but so far this is a summary of my scores:

Achel 8 Blonde - 3,9/5
Achel 8 Bruine - 4,2/5

Chimay White - 4,1/5
Chimay Red - 3,4/5
Chimay Blue 2008 - 3,9/5
Chimay Blue 2009 - 4,4/5 (Best in test)

La Trappe Blond - 3,5/5
La Trappe Bockbier - 3,4/5
La Trappe Dubbel - 4/5
La Trappe Trippel - 3,5/5
La Trappe Quadrupel - 3,7/5
La Trappe Witte Trappist - 3,6/5

Orval - 4,2/5 (Personal favorite, keeps getting re-rated as I try more of it)

Rochefort 6 - 4,1/5
Rochefort 8 - 4,2/5
Rochefort 10 - 4,4/5 (Best in test)

Westmalle Dubbel - 4,1/5
Westmalle Trippel - 3,7/5

Westvleteren 6/Blond - 3,5/5
Westvleteren Extra 8 - 4,3/5
Westvleteren 12 - 4,2/5

Rochefort 10 and Chimay Blue 1999 are the best beers in this test and now that I think back that feels just right. Both of them gave me one of thoose 'WOW!" feelings.

Now lets see which has been my favorite trappist brewery. A bit unfair since I have tried allot more of some breweries. But here is the average score for each brewery:

Rochefort 4,23/5
Orval 4,2/5
Achel 4,05/5
Westvleteren 4/5
Chimay 3,95/5
Westmalle 3,9/5
La Trappe 3,62/5

Looks almost like I would put it. But I think I would switch place with Westvleteren and Achel. Rochefort and Orval are two beers that I tend to buy at Systembolaget when I got nothing else to buy (news for instance). They are my go-to beers when all else fails. La Trappe gets a slightly unfair low average score due to having more beers represented.

I decided to not include the Urthel beers even though they are brewed at the same brewery as the La Trappe beers. However I wasn't very impressed by thoose beers anyway. I also have a bottle of La Trappe Isid'or in storage but I will have to wait with reviewing that beer for now.

3 comments:

  1. Tjena Stefan, jag och Einar sitter och dricker din Death Hops II och är rätt imponerade! Lite konstruktiv kritik skulle kunna vara att den är lite obalanserad, men det kanske lite lagring skulle kunna fixa? Fin humlebeska och fruktighet annars!

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  2. Tack for kommentaren och kul att ni gillar den. Ja mycket möjligt att den blir mer balanserad med tiden. Den var rejält humlig när vi tappade upp den på flaska. Men den har blivit något mildare med tiden. Fick du förresten en av flaskorna som tappat kolsyra? Alltså hade den ett litet eller stort skum? Tyvärr blev det fel när vi tappade några flaskor och dom blev avslagna och lite tråkigare i smaken.

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  3. Har du förresten något förslag på hur vi kan få bättre balans på ölen?

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