Straffe Hendrik Brugs Tripelbier 9°
Huisbrouwerij De Halve Maan in Brugge, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
7.12
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Straffe Hendrik Tripel is a golden triple with a sturdy white collar. The aroma is spicy with hints of black pepper, coriander and ginger, and is even insinuating the presence of oranges.
The beer is brewed with a selection of Saaz and Styrian hops of a very high quality. The subtle blend of six special varieties of malt gives the beer a well-balanced and powerful taste.
The palate initiates a hint of caramel, soon flowing into a certain bitterness. In the finish one can discover citrus fruits and even subtle flavours of banana.
The triple has an alcohol percentage of 9° and the refermentatation in the bottle generates a long natural shelf life.
EBC 19, 19.5° plato.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
750ml corked bottle, 2025 vintage. Spicy Belgian yeast aroma with notes of caramel, black pepper, coriander, orange, ginger, bready malt and banana. Pours cloudy golden colored with a finger of white head that has excellent retention and lacing. Starts with black pepper, bready malt, orange and coriander flavors and well as having a light, dry body and crisp mouthfeel. Finishes smooth and refreshing with ginger, banana, spicy yeast and caramel flavors. Excellent Tripel.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
From a 330ml bottle on 12/10/2025. Pours a slightly opaque very deep golden with a smallish head. The nose features light fermenting apple and Belgian yeast. Tastes of apple, orange, pear, spice and yeast, with a slightly sour, slightly peppery, very dry finish. The palate is slick, the carbonation lively. Decent, but prefer this style a little sweeter and less dry.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
A beautiful looking, quite transparent, deep orange, a bit more hazy when pouring the last inch. Medium sized, quite frothy head, the slightest off-white, shows pretty good retention and lacing. Average to good intensity in the aroma: a relatively timid malty presence (marzipan most noticeable), fruity notes taking a bit of edge in the overall panorama, with candied orange most noticeable, plus peach and pear. Quite some spiciness too, mainly peppery and perhaps a bit of coriander. Taste confirms a relatively restrained malty/sweet presence, with taste notes as per aroma, plus an underlying citric feel that reminds of chinotto. A bit of (clean) earthiness in a rather dry per style finish/aftertaste. Quite dense bodied beer with average to above average carbonation; a quite full mouthfeel, somewhere in the middle of full/creamy and lively from carbonation; felt a bit too much "in the middle/undecided" too me, also a bit too burpy (not at all an unpleasant mouthfeel anyways). Overall: a rather original take on the style, quite tasty and well made.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Utseende: Gulbrun.
Lukt: Høy, Citrus.
Smak: Høy, Citrus, karamell, frukter.
Skum/kullsyre: Dekkende skum, heng.
Medium: Rating:8-7-7-6-7=7, Draft@330ml, ABV@9%, Når@2025.09.20.
Hvor: Mellombels Ølstove, Bryne
Navn: Straffe Hendrik Brugs Tripelbier 9°
Stil: BELGIAN STYLE - TRIPEL
Bryggeri: Huisbrouwerij De Halve Maan
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
kolor bursztynowy, opalizujący, piana biała, obfita, trwała. zapach intensywny, cukier kandyzowany, gruszki, jabłka, rodzynki, daktyle, karmel, w tle dobrze ułożony alkohol, całość okrągła. w smaku pełne, karmel, spieczony chleb, jasne słody, trochę drożdżówki, owoce, jabłka, gruszki, suszone zioła, stare drewno, trochę liści, lekkie nuty piwnicy i piołunu, w tle destylat. goryczka wysoka, dość długa, alkoholowa, piołunowa, lekko przyprawowa. w ustach rozgrzewające, lekko ściągające, treściwe, ale nie męczy. nasycenie bardzo wysokie.
