Oat lager (certainly not a tripel) dry-hopped with Nelson Sauvin hops and the sixth variant of the Quirinus brand by the Park Abbey's brewery, which has produced multiple Quirinus and Libertus beers in its seven years of existence now, most of which - at least the ones I tasted - were actually quite good. Thanks to Craftmember for this stubby bottle! Medium sized, off-white, cobweb-lacing, opening head on a lightly misty, ochre-tinged 'old' golden robe with minute-bubbled strings of sparkling everywhere (but hardly visible to the naked eye). Aroma of dry cereals, multigrain bread, unsugared oatmeal porridge, hint of grape skin or the dry residue of cava, fresh sorrel leaf, dry earth, chickweed, cucumber peel, minerals, something very thinly nutty (beech nuts) and something sweaty or cheesy faraway in the background. Crisp onset, low in sweetness or indeed fruitiness so 'believably' a lager, vague hints at green banana and hard unripe pear perhaps, minerally carbonation; dry cereally and somewhat bread-crusty malt core, very pure all-malt, with the oats in this case bringing more sharpish graininess than velvetiness, oddly. Meanwhile the hop powers gradually increase, accentuating the dryness with their grassy, floral bitterness, which lasts long into the finish, where dry-bready yeast elements pleasantly linger too. The hops also add faint retronasal aromas of very dry white wine, vermouth or grape skin and green plum, more or less typifying the Nelson Sauvin effect. Original combination of flavours within the restraining boundaries of a lager: this may not be the most impressive Bra-Pa beer to date for me, but it does embody this brewery's approach well, in being dry, yeasty in an organised way and confidently hopped - an approach I can recommend to many other microbreweries in Belgium and beyond. The Nelson Sauvin character is subtle yet clear, the oats are grainy more than 'slimy' and everything fits together well; this must be one of the most interesting lagers brewed in Belgium in the past few years, coming to think of it...

Flaska från Hops’N More. En 5-%-ig trippel kan det funka? Gyllengul disig vätska med högt skum. Lättare så klart med en fruktig sötma och lite stramare beska. Inte långt från en belgisk single eller tolkning av en APA. Visst finns det små smakmässiga likheter men ganska långt från en trippel. Gott ändå