Vlaamsche Leeuw Tripel
De Brouwerij Van Vlaanderen in Wielsbeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Van SteenbergeBelgian Style - Tripel Regular
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Score
6.21
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A blond, clear, top-fermented beer with an aroma of Saaz hops. The soft malt character and perfumed fruitiness of pears and apples come into their own during the aftertaste. Fine aroma hops are added at different times during brewing. We add the Saaz hops at the very end of the brewing process. This is how we obtain the beautiful hop aroma. The second fermentation in the bottle (and barrel) ensures that the beer can be kept longer (up to 2 years) and that the taste continues to evolve during this storage.
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6/10
Tried
on 07 Jan 2017
at 19:20
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Rerate, bottle from Geers. Clear golden with a thick, foamy, white head. Aroma of oxidized apple, apricot, pear, alcohol (almost in a 'hot' way), clove, soap, yeast, wet grass. Taste has sweetish apple & pear, yeasty body & pale maltiness, bitter spicy middle with a metallic edge even. Bit soapy feel along clove & pepper. Peppery hoppy finish, more spices, yeast & rather boozy jenever-like alcohol. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. Still very run-of-the-mill even among the huge amount of Tripels. Would recommend the dark version. This Flemish lion is rather easy to tame, if you catch my drift... Original rating: 18/03/2016. 4/3/4/2/9=2.2.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2016
at 15:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared. Pours hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast, caramel, coriander, malt, light fruity notes and a little citrus. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2015
at 11:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
33cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Thick creamy white head. Cloudy blond pour. A decent triple.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2015
at 11:43
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Vlaamsche Leeuw Tripel (by Brouwerij Van Steenberge):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
6/IV/15 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: 17/IV/15 (2015-418)
Because there's not enough label beers for Augustijn as it is... :p
Clear orange beer, big fluffy aery white head, little stable. Aroma: fruity, some citrus, little peppery, sweet. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, some honey, orange peel, bit oxidized. Aftertaste: sourish, spicy, some coriander, orange peel, soft bitterness.
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
6/IV/15 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: 17/IV/15 (2015-418)
Because there's not enough label beers for Augustijn as it is... :p
Clear orange beer, big fluffy aery white head, little stable. Aroma: fruity, some citrus, little peppery, sweet. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, some honey, orange peel, bit oxidized. Aftertaste: sourish, spicy, some coriander, orange peel, soft bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2015
at 14:00
4/10
Tried
on 06 Nov 2014
at 20:29
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tripel in this politically compromizing series - but I guess you’d have to be Belgian to grasp that political meaning. Anyway: a stereotypical tripel with a thick, off-white head and pale golden blonde colour; malt sweetness and apply estery fruitiness prevail, some coriander, phenolic too; straightforward taste, malt sweet, subdued fruity onset, spicy ’Van Steenberge yeastiness’, mild hop bitter finish. Totally redundant - it tastes as if Van Steenberge made a cheaper version of their own Augustijn. Not to mention the metallic undertone. This beer company is quality-wise not an addition to Belgian beer culture (carefully put) and is primarily motivated by politics, that much is certain. No more Flemish lions for me.
Tried
on 31 Oct 2014
at 19:06
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle from De Zytholoog. Golden colour, white foam. Lively carbonation. Sweet aroma with metallic notes and bitter aftertaste. Unbalanced, typical Van Steenberge flavour, a flavour I don’t like.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2014
at 01:54
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Ordinary Belgian tripel. Has the usual traits, but remains a bit flat. Strange that they labeled a beer after such a nationalistic and violent event.
Tried
on 19 Jul 2014
at 04:09
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy pale amber colour, one finger frothy white head, recedes slowly, thin layer remains, good lacing. Aroma malty, banana, yeast, dough, bit toffee, coriander. Taste light sweet, slightly bitter, alcoholic and spicy notes. Full body, oily to creamy texture, all taste elements including some acidity present in finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2014
at 11:18