Jubilee
New Holland Brewing Company

12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 5/12/2017. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy golden orange/amber color with a 1 finger fairly dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin spotty lace cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a light amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big juicy/tart/tangy cherries, fruit skin/pits, peach, pear, plum, apricot, lemon, orange, melon, red apple, red grape/wine, peppercorn, honey, candi sugar, lightly toasted bread, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, cherries, candi sugar, pale malt, and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big juicy/tart/tangy cherries, fruit skin/pits, peach, pear, plum, apricot, lemon, orange, melon, red apple, red grape/wine, peppercorn, honey, candi sugar, lightly toasted bread, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate peppery yeast spiciness, fruit tang/tartness; and light herbal/grassy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart/tangy cherries, fruit skin/pits, peach, pear, plum, apricot, lemon, orange, melon, red apple, red grape/wine, peppercorn, honey, candi sugar, lightly toasted bread, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, cherries, candi sugar, pale malt, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness and tart/tangy fruit balance; with no cloying/puckering flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from spiciness and tart/tangy fruit. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, acidic/tangy fruit, and lightly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Mildly increasing warmth of 9.8% after the finish. Overall this is an awesome fruited Belgian strong pale ale. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, cherries, candi sugar, pale malt, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip with the mellowly spicy/acidic/tangy/drying finish. Very juicy/jammy cherries and balanced Belgian yeast complexity; with a great candi sugar/pils malt backbone. Well attenuated, not overly sweet/heavy for the ABV from lingering dryness. A really enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.

Cherry red yet carmelly bottom in appearance with frothy creamy head. Smell is mildly cherry sweet with Belgian sugar. Taste is Belgian yeast but has the mix of mild tart cherry from cherry juice. Overall thought it would taste medicinal but nothing of the like. It's a Belgian beer brewed in Michigan with some fresh cherry flavoring that gives it some mild sourness but is completely smooth. A well done brew.