[Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival] Hazy deep golden. Lightly almondy nose. Medium sweet with bnotes of caramel, syrup and banana as well as esters. Clean but somewhat mushy mouthfeel. No bitterness. Pretty good, if a little unrefined.

Clear golden color with thin white head. Bready and pale roasted malt smell. The aroma is a bit too mild. Flavor begins with some pale malt, wheat and brown sugar sweetness. Soon after some hops enter the picture. Beyond midway the flavor is punctuated by more sugar sweetness and a bit of alcohol. Real nice tasting brew. I love the pale maltiness addition.

Bottle. Rich golden beer with an off-white head. Sweet malt and estery aroma. Malt/wheat flavor with lots of orange fruitiness and a bit of yeasty spiciness. There’s just something that doesn’t bring it all together.

Pour is a cloudy brown with no head. Aroma is hard to detect. Its slightly fruity with some breadyness. Flavor is WOW super sweet sugar all around. The alcohol was hidden quite well but only b/c of the overpowering sweetness. Not a good rep of the style.

Dated 3/25/03 tasted December 2004, its past its recommended 120 day drink by date, but shows little signs of age. At worst, its lost some carbonation, as this pour lightly carb’d with little to no head, odd for tripel. Appearance was also darker than expected with an almost pure amber color. Aroma highly caramelized and candyish with mild phenols. Flavor similar, starts very sweet leading to a lightly fuselly finish. As the beer warms the alcohol begins to overpower the sweeter malts. Fermentation profile is medium in phenols, not very fruity otherwise: pepper seems the dominant note. Perhaps age has increased the alcohol presence and converted the fruitier esters. No signs of oxidation but it may still be better when slightly fresher.

2004 bottle. Pour is medium orange with some deep yellows. Pretty colorful for a trippel (used to pale gold and the like). Small white head, that rapidly dissipates. Aroma of peach and banana esters, light hops and some muted wheat tones. Flavor is quite unique, I taste mainly a hard candy sweetness, with a hint of plastic phenols. It’s like sucking on a peach flavored hard candy. Lightly sticky texture, but fairly fluffy on the end. Medium body, very low yeast apparency, with some hops present. It seemed overly sweet, but the more I drank, it grew on me, the flavor was quite consistent and full. Alcohol noticeable, lightly spicy finish. Not tremendously to style.