750 mL corked and banded, shared with clvand0 and BEERchictect at Pazzo’s in Lexington, KY.
Typically Belgian, but with one or two odd twists. Firstly the body was very clear – almost like a macro lager. It did come with a great, rocky and pillowed frothy head and some chill haze, AND all the other usual Belgian attributes were in place; plenty of fruit character, typical Belgian sugars and yeasts and lots of spice character. Just like BEERchitect suggested, I got some salty tastes as well.
Rather against the grain was a lingering bitterness that didn’t seem like a hop based flavor. Much more like some kind of artificial bitterness like Angostura. Nevertheless I still enjoyed it and found it to be very drinkable. If anyhting it seemed to drink a little stronger than the 7.3% ABV advertised.