Bottle shared at THT. Hazy golden with a big white head. Aroma of yeast, floral notes and herbs. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

04/03/2016 - sample from 33cl bottle @Wijnkelder, Kluisbergen. Hazy yellow with big creamy head. Spices, grains, bitter fruits & hops

5th Feb 2015: 33cl bought and drank in De Bierboom (Brugge). Slight haze to my golden pour, the head a thick white blanket of foam. The nose was yeasty, grainy and semi-sweet molasses: the taste similar with a mild honey note and some fruitiness in the aftertaste. Decent Tripel, but with the alcohol showing just a little too much through the flavours for my liking.

33cl bottle from Bierboom. Very thick creamy white head. Hazy golden pour. An average triple

Pours unclear blonde, ok white head . Smell is grainy, bit sweet . Taste is taste is sweet ( malty sweetness ) , yeast ( banana ) , touch of honey-like sweetness as well . Good carbo and mouthfeel

Troebel geel bier met veel schuim. Smaak is hoppig bitter en licht zuur fruitig, citrus en bessen. Blijft lang hangen.

Flaske fra Belgisk Bryg, delt på RBHD-samling på Tau okt-14: lett uklar gylden medhøjt hvitt cremeskum. I motsetning til De Graal Tripel som den etterfulgte har de her vært atskillig mer forsiktige når de forsynte seg i krydderskuffen. God, og lett å helle innenfor snippen, men den etterlater seg ingen varige minner.

Shared bottle at RB/HD gathering at Tau 18.10.14. Hazy yellow. White head. Classic triple aroma, with some banana. Similar taste, with hints of berries. Light and fizzy mouthfeel.

Shared 330 ml bottle at local tasting. Hazy golden colour, white head. Typical tripel aroma, but fairly moderate, mild spices. Fizzy mouthfeel. Fairly nice tripel flavour, mild spices. Nice enough, but no trappist.

Tripel launched in 2009 referring to the brewery’s name ("the quest for the Holy Grail"), with a thick, cream white, quite heavily lacing, moussy head and pure golden blonde colour with a haze of yeast bits throughout as well as vivid sparkling; turns a cloudy ochre with sediment added. Aroma of old ’jenever’, white bread, cereals, green banana, pear, freshly cut grass, unripe peach, sweet clover, white bread dough, soap and originally (back in 2009) a hint of H2S (rotting egg), which has fortunately disappeared in the 2015 batch I’m using for this rating. Dry but still estery fruitiness, some peach, green banana, green apple (acetaldehyde), unripe plum, spritzy carbo, bready middle, full and fluffy mouthfeel, light caramel touch, warming gin-like alcohol in the finish along with mild grassy hop bitterishness, delivering an effective balance against the fruit and malt sweetness. Very stereotypical, but in all, a more than decent, by now flawless tripel / edelbier. Thoroughly Belgian but I can still appreciate this kind of beers as a ’resting point’ amidst craft beer violence if technically well executed, which is the case here.