Gouden Carolus Tripel
Brouwerij Het Anker in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
7.38
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Full graceful tenderness, with a clean and neat taste, this beer will enchant you: matured in the bottle, exclusively obtained from pale malt, highly fermented and 100% natural. With a full-bodied flavor that still works thirst quenching, thanks to a balanced hopping.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from N&R News, Blackheath Royal Standard.
Nose is grapefruit, orange peel, lime, bitter herbs. Taste is very similar to the above. Very citrus based, quite different to the usual tripels I've tried, a lot smoother too. Heavy citrus aftertaste. Really nice.
Nose is grapefruit, orange peel, lime, bitter herbs. Taste is very similar to the above. Very citrus based, quite different to the usual tripels I've tried, a lot smoother too. Heavy citrus aftertaste. Really nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2026
at 15:53
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 7
A small bottle from the off-licence opposite Jing Mei fire station. Aroma: fresh grass, vinous, boozy fumes, good stuff. Appearance: semi-opaque honey amber. Remarkable head, no gusher but foam occupied 2/3s the glass, nice creamy cap. Palate: full-bodied and rather oily, softish carbonation despite the foam; finish is long, boozy and warming. Taste: medium-sweet with rock candy, almond, some pepper from the alcohol. Good beer - only drawback was the head dissipated so slowly it took ages to drink my money’s worth.
Tried
on 24 Nov 2025
at 08:35
8/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Hops, Crewe. Pours a bright golden amber with medium sized frothy almost white head soft carbonation. The aroma is mainly spices with hints of banana and bread rolls. In the mouth it varies between sweet and sharp but with the latter increasing. Flavour is wonderfully complex with Belgian yeast, cloves, spices, alcoholic strength and hints of citrus. Later on there are traces of corn, crackers and oranges as well. Sweetness lasts into a boozy finish. This is nice – a top class tripel.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Hops
on 22 Nov 2025
at 15:15
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 330ml bottle on 1/11/2024 (shared by Ed with me and Butz). Pours hazy deep golden with a huge head. The nose is clove, spice, Belgain yeast and a bit of banana. Same of the sip with some citrussy sweet and sour, leading to a pleasant light bitterness. Fullish body with lively carbonation. Really nicely balanced and very enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Plonk
on 01 Nov 2025
at 04:15
5.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 3.5
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Bottle shared by Thomas W, thanks.
Strange aroma with a plain soap aroma and a herbal aroma.
Acfirm bitterness for a tripel.
Strange aroma with a plain soap aroma and a herbal aroma.
Acfirm bitterness for a tripel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2025
at 19:04
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Amber colour, large rocky head that does.not stay long. Aroma is white bread, a bit of herbal hops and peach. Light bitterness. Alcohol does not disturb. Lively carbonation, medium body. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Firma Handlowa Maria
on 07 Oct 2025
at 20:08
7/10
Natali A. Мех ня знайдзен
Tried
on 17 Sep 2025
at 16:26
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On a pub in Mechelen.
Tried
on 05 Jun 2025
at 13:12
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Large format bottle. Slightly Cloudy Gold With Lacing from white head. Some sweet and sour fuitiness and overall very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:07
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Bottle
at
Cafe Amsterdam
on 16 May 2025
at 17:05