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Orabelle Belgian-Style Ale
Great Divide Brewing Company
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- From:
- Great Divide Brewing Company
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Tripel
Ranked #136 - ABV:
- 8.3%
- Score:
- 87
Ranked #16,945 - Avg:
- 3.87 | pDev: 10.34%
- Reviews:
- 180
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 12, 2023
- Added:
- Dec 31, 2012
- Wants:
- 24
- Gots:
- 124
ORABELLE is brewed with barley, wheat, oats, and rye. This Belgian-Style Tripel is a golden beauty. Its two yeast strains, orange peel and dash of coriander impart surprising complexity and richness to this delicate ale. Don’t let Orabelle’s demure nature fool you; this is one flavorful pour. Watch out, she’s a charmer – one sip and you’ll be in love.
32 IBU
32 IBU
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Reviewed by Mark-Leggett from Missouri
4.09/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.09/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from a can. Golden and hazy with a white head. Smells of grain, orange and coriander. Flavors of bread, banana, coriander, and hints of rye. Good mix of flavor, pretty smooth and avb is hidden well.
Jun 12, 2023Reviewed by barneyrubble from Colorado
3.77/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.77/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
L- Pale orange color that is about 70% opaque. Head is white and foamy but collapses quickly leaving a touch of lace and a partly cloudy type surface. 3.75
N- Light yeast notes, some faint bread crust and apple skin. Late a faint bit of banana show up 3.5
T-Nice bread like malt flavor with an apple cider like sweetness around the edges. A hint of unsweet cinnamon powder is behind the apple notes with a hint of banana. A light clove and some alcohol dryness along with faint heat, add to the somewhat tangy fermenting cider finish. Subsequent tasting leave this too malty for my palate. Still enjoyable but some more experience with the style helps.
M- Nice medium body slickness that is not cloying and with very fine carbonation that is on the lighter side. Smooth and well balanced feel. 4.0
O- I like this very nice example of a Belgian style ale. Lacks some of the unique ester notes yet has enough going on to keep it from being flat and boring. I especially like that the malt is not too caramel like; I’m thinking Golden Monkey as a contrast. 4
May 27, 2023N- Light yeast notes, some faint bread crust and apple skin. Late a faint bit of banana show up 3.5
T-Nice bread like malt flavor with an apple cider like sweetness around the edges. A hint of unsweet cinnamon powder is behind the apple notes with a hint of banana. A light clove and some alcohol dryness along with faint heat, add to the somewhat tangy fermenting cider finish. Subsequent tasting leave this too malty for my palate. Still enjoyable but some more experience with the style helps.
M- Nice medium body slickness that is not cloying and with very fine carbonation that is on the lighter side. Smooth and well balanced feel. 4.0
O- I like this very nice example of a Belgian style ale. Lacks some of the unique ester notes yet has enough going on to keep it from being flat and boring. I especially like that the malt is not too caramel like; I’m thinking Golden Monkey as a contrast. 4
Reviewed by dcscientist from Colorado
4/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This is a pretty solid dubbel in my view, but they refer to it as a tripel on the style guide. It's not quite heavy and sweet enough to be a tripel for me, though 8.3% is nothing to sneeze at for sure. I like this beer, I just feel like it needs a bit more of something to really pop. Good flavor, good smell, just not quite as impressive as I was hoping, but I'd drink it again regardless.
May 31, 2022Reviewed by whynot44 from Missouri
4.12/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Very hazy straw yellow color with substantial and lasting foamy head that manages some nice lacing. The aroma is yeasty fresh bread, spices, including coriander, cloves, allspice, and a touch of white pepper.
The taste is sweet yeasty fresh bread with some apricot, bananas and golden raisin notes. This mild sweetness leads into coriander, possibly enhanced by rye and then cloves and allspice.The finish becomes dry with lingering spice and peppery notes. Very nice!
The body is light/medium, slightly creamy, with a fairly high carbonation level.
Altogether this is a very enjoyable, somewhat complex brew. While maybe not quite up to Trappist standards, this is at least a respectable shot and somewhat more affordable for frequent enjoyment.
Mar 29, 2022The taste is sweet yeasty fresh bread with some apricot, bananas and golden raisin notes. This mild sweetness leads into coriander, possibly enhanced by rye and then cloves and allspice.The finish becomes dry with lingering spice and peppery notes. Very nice!
The body is light/medium, slightly creamy, with a fairly high carbonation level.
Altogether this is a very enjoyable, somewhat complex brew. While maybe not quite up to Trappist standards, this is at least a respectable shot and somewhat more affordable for frequent enjoyment.
Reviewed by tigg924 from Massachusetts
4.03/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours hazy, milky gold in color with 1/4 inch head. Taste is honey, hay, and green apple. Medium body and carbonation, funky. Makes for a solid tripel. I prefer the Belgian classics but still very good.
Nov 08, 2021Reviewed by KT3418 from Colorado
4/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This was solid, I feel like I would seek other belgian style ales before coming back to this but if you find yourself on that journey of trying things I would recommend, I would buy this again I just seeing myself buying more Trappist ales first to get into the style
Mar 18, 2021Reviewed by MattDecker from Texas
3.9/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Look: semi-hazy matte banana yellow
Smell: belgium sugar, banana,
Taste: sweet, pleasant and soothing. A classic and smooth belgium triple. A little hop finish, which is not something I normally note in tripels, not bad, just unexpected
Feel: medium
Overall: a pleasant belgium tripel with a little kick with the hop. If belgium tripels are cheddar cheese, this is a slight aged sharp cheddar (hop that makes sense)
Jul 17, 2020Smell: belgium sugar, banana,
Taste: sweet, pleasant and soothing. A classic and smooth belgium triple. A little hop finish, which is not something I normally note in tripels, not bad, just unexpected
Feel: medium
Overall: a pleasant belgium tripel with a little kick with the hop. If belgium tripels are cheddar cheese, this is a slight aged sharp cheddar (hop that makes sense)
Reviewed by sjdevel from Utah
4.31/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Really nice and foamy brew - flavorful and slightly sweet - dries out as you go - no real hops to speak of - nice spices and Belgian yeast - great beer - would buy again for sure
Mar 09, 2020Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas
4.13/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.13/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Appearance – The beer pours a lightly hazed golden yellow color with a billowy head of thick white foam. The head has a great level of retention, persisting for a long time before fading to leave a ton of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is strong of a bready and wheaty smell mixed with lots of spice. The spice aromas are massive of a coriander smell and are accompanied by some other aromas of clove and nutmeg. Along with these smells comes a little bit of apricot and peach as well as a touch of a yeasty smell.
Taste- The taste begins with a bready and slightly sweeter flavor with some confectioner’s sugar and fruity tastes of a light fruit nature of apricot and peach. As the taste advances some of the sweetness fades all while the spice really starts to ramp up. While present upfront, the coriander flavor gets quite a bit stronger as the taste advances being the predominant flavor as the taste moves to the end. Along with the coriander increasing so too do some other spice flavors of a clove and allspice nature. Toward the very end a bit of yeast and hay come to tongue and end up leaving one with a rather spiced, slightly fruity, and crisp taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is on the lighter and more crisp side with a carbonation level that is rather average to slightly higher. Fort eh mix of flavors and the style the feel is awesome as it complements nicely the lighter fruit flavors, crisp body and spice tastes and makes for a rather easy sipping brew overall.
Overall – Very flavorful and crisp with a great drinkability. A rather nice Belgium ale!! One I will certainly go back to on more occasion.
Feb 19, 2020Smell – The aroma of the brew is strong of a bready and wheaty smell mixed with lots of spice. The spice aromas are massive of a coriander smell and are accompanied by some other aromas of clove and nutmeg. Along with these smells comes a little bit of apricot and peach as well as a touch of a yeasty smell.
Taste- The taste begins with a bready and slightly sweeter flavor with some confectioner’s sugar and fruity tastes of a light fruit nature of apricot and peach. As the taste advances some of the sweetness fades all while the spice really starts to ramp up. While present upfront, the coriander flavor gets quite a bit stronger as the taste advances being the predominant flavor as the taste moves to the end. Along with the coriander increasing so too do some other spice flavors of a clove and allspice nature. Toward the very end a bit of yeast and hay come to tongue and end up leaving one with a rather spiced, slightly fruity, and crisp taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is on the lighter and more crisp side with a carbonation level that is rather average to slightly higher. Fort eh mix of flavors and the style the feel is awesome as it complements nicely the lighter fruit flavors, crisp body and spice tastes and makes for a rather easy sipping brew overall.
Overall – Very flavorful and crisp with a great drinkability. A rather nice Belgium ale!! One I will certainly go back to on more occasion.
Rated by cratez from Canada (ON)
3.91/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Rating from notes. Consumed November 2013. "An aromatic Tripel, but the flavour falls a bit short IMO."
Jan 26, 2020
Orabelle Belgian-Style Ale from Great Divide Brewing Company
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
774 ratings
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