Quest
De Graal in Brakel, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.73
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Bierridder (4318) reviewed Quest from De Graal 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
04/03/2016 - sample from 33cl bottle @Wijnkelder, Kluisbergen. Hazy yellow with big creamy head. Spices, grains, bitter fruits & hops
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Quest from De Graal 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
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.
Deanso (15673) reviewed Quest from De Graal 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle from Bierboom. Very thick creamy white head. Hazy golden pour. An average triple
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Quest from De Graal 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
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
Icedwarf (4896) reviewed Quest from De Graal 11 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Troebel geel bier met veel schuim. Smaak is hoppig bitter en licht zuur fruitig, citrus en bessen. Blijft lang hangen.
Holmen_1 (14547) reviewed Quest from De Graal 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
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.
Holmen2 (8836) reviewed Quest from De Graal 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
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.
Sigmund (14587) reviewed Quest from De Graal 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
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.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Quest from De Graal 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
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.
hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed Quest from De Graal 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Renowned tripel imbiber hawthorne00 staggered from the vaulted archway of the Grand Back Fridge. He lunged for the nearest receptacle he could see, a Westmalle chalice. Grabbing the gilded glass, the forty-six-year-old man heaved the masterpiece toward himself and tearing the cap from the pulchritudinous-blonde-tressed-emblazoned-labelled libation hawthorne00 inverted it as it collapsed backward in a heap beneath its canvas-like head. About 10C. Hazy gold with a head that lasts once it fades to a coat. Aroma of wheaty dough, oranges, cloves, pepper. Sweet - grainy and yeasty with apricots and oranges. Alcohol is well-hidden, but it’s a bit dull until the likeable finish which is dryish, spicy and moderately bitter. A voice spoke, chillingly close. "Do not neglect the wisdom of the lowest rating." Only eight pages away the mountainous silhouette of a rating stares through the iron bars. It was broad and tall, with ghost-pale skin and thinning white hair. Its irises were pink with dark red pupils. Why it had these features is no more puzzling than how they were discernible in silhouette. The renowned Google translate says it’s written in Galician. And rather than tedious hints about the supposed offspring of Christ, it says in translation inter alia "corresponds with ni ni flavor." Ah. Wrong grail yarn, Patsy.