Tripel d'Anvers
(has 4 batches)

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours golden with an off-white head. Some overripe fruit, yeast and a slight tartness in the nose. Medium body, sweet overripe fruit and some hops in the finish. 150211

33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a white head. Aroma is light phenolic and dry caramelish. Dry phenolic and slight spiced. Light sweetness and caramelish. Bitter and dry, slight fruity finish.

Bottle, 33cl, from Det Bette Ølhus. It pours a huge, creamy off-white head that after some time are reduced to a normal head size. Some lacings are left as the slightly hazy, golden colored beer is drank. The aroma has a little unclean rubbery, chemical touch, but it’s mostly fruity and sugary. The flavor too has a little rubbery touch, but as in the aroma, it’s mostly sugary and fruity. Mostly tropical fruits like peaches, banana and lemon, but there’s also a touch of green apples. Warming, full-bodied and fizzy, with a lasting alcohol warmth. Sugary and fruity too in the end. A drinkable one, but not a beer I’ll return to. 100815

Bottled (from beerplanet.eu). Amber colour, mediumsized beige foamy head. Aroma is caramel malts, some slight yeastyness, spices as well as some slight notes of nuttyness. Flavour is caramel, wood, some yeast, spices, mild acidic notes as well. A bit too sweet for my likes.

Fles 33cl thuis. Wat zepig, scherpig, kruidig, zoetje, perzik, licht maltig. (10-2010).

Small white head over golden beer with an orange shine (NB: very nice new glass). Very dry nose, greenery as salad, parsley, and again the vegetable frying oil, that seemed to have disappeared in the later De Koninck Tripel versions. Beer for the wok? Sweet flavour, and again the veggie oil (what IS this?). But the beer itself being more neutral then the former Tripel, this frying oil flavour comes out all the stronger. Very slick (oily...), some alcoholwarming and -sweetness backthroat. Can’t say I like this better than the Tripel. It’s different, yet not unsimilar.