Another rock band beer but luckily not a standard pale lager this time... Has been in existence for about six years now and is one of Vleesmeester's core products, but somehow it apparently escaped my attention - until now. Complexely cobweb-lacing, eggshell-white, quite thick and firm but also irregular and slowly breaking head, misty deep orange-glowing peach blonde robe, lively but 'refined' strings of sparkling. Aroma of freshly squeezed orange juice, clementine, dried onion, fried tomato peel, dry cookies, old biscuit, moist white pepper, gin, apricot, coriander seed, green melon, banana, dry cigarette tobacco whiff, dust. Fruity, crisp onset, light banana and melon notes mingled with hints at apricot and pineapple, light sourish edge, accentuated by very lively and somewhat coarse, sharp carbonation. Full, round-edged, peanutty and soggy rusk-like maltiness (yet with parts of it obviously replaced by candi syrup with heavy honeyish effect, as is common in Belgian ales), sweetish with a thin caramelly edge, but very quickly bittered by a very firm, spicy, rooty hoppiness, clinging to the root of the tongue in a quinine-like way but also retronasally propelling forward a whiff of citrus peel. This bitterness blends with a 'jenever'-like, slightly wry but in any case quite obvious alcohol effect that fortunately doesn't set in too early as well as a dusty old coriander seed spiciness, and is further adorned with phenolic spicy notes and ongoing honeyish 'malt' sweetness. Belgian tripel all the way, except for the heavy use of New World hops, which add a bright 'orange' citrusiness to the whole - but in the end, it is still the sharply carbonated, coriandered, candi syrup-using, boozy, sweet cliché tripel aspect of the beer that wins the case. Hoppy tripel, simply put, but there is nothing wrong with that per se - even if the tripel features clash a bit with the IPA-like hoppiness; in any case these Your Highness guys have a lot more to show for than all those rock bands with custom pale lagers (AC/DC, Motörhead and so on) - and even a lot more than their Belgian colleagues of Channel Zero with that awful Turbeau Noir...

Amberkleurig bier met schuim wat snel wegzakt. Smaak is warm en zoet kruidig met iets van hars, grapefruit, appelstroop en gedroogde pruimen. Goed en degelijk bier.

Bottle at Staminee de Boulevard, Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium Friday 27th April 2018 Hazy orangey colour with a white head. A decent bitter and spicey bite, soft mouthfeel, really soft, the sweetness is there but it has a fruity tang. Ok, actually I'm being harsh it's much better than ok. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov14 3.6

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Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2017. A hazy dark golden beer with a mid sized most good lasting beige head. Aroma of strong hoppy fruits, resinous hops, red malt. Taste of reddish malt, strong bitter hops, resinous hops.