Bottle, 8.5%. Clean grain aroma, wheat chaff and yeast. Hazy golden colour. Big stable white head. The flavour is yeasty and wheaty with a citric finish. It is of course not a German wheat beer, but it reminds me a lot of heller Weizenbock. Some acid and fresh yeast in the aftertaste. Smooth and flavorful. 737317 / 6 7 7 6 8,5

Trocken hefiger, mild süßer Beginn. Kräutrig, hefig, eher trocken bleibend, süffig. Geringe Herbe, hefig-würzig bleibend, mittellanger Abgang. 9/8/8/9/7/9

Bottle 0,33 ltr: Hazy golden coloured brew with an sticky sweet bitter taste with hints of oranges, coriander and something herbal too.

Fles 33cl thuis. Zacht, zoet, fruitig, Belgisch gist, honingtonen, steenfruit, wat vanilletonen, orange peel, wat banaan. (7-1-2023).

Very good, dense, reasonably stable yellowish head over hazy orange-ochre beer. Toast, spicy malts, preserved orangepeel, light-coloured and white candi sugar. Rather 'hot' aromas. Toasted malts, burning/fiery flavour and mouthfeel; again orangepeel, hoppy bitterness, candi sugar. Spiciness not linkeable to a specific spice or herb. Bananapeel. Long-lasting main flavour(s), stressing the orange. Good carbonation, chewy, well bodied. Run-of-the-mill.

Hazy blond colour, creamy foam. Nose of weed, grass, some banana, citrus, bitterness. Unbalanced.

‘Abbey tripel’ by Broeder Jacob fermented with a “special yeast”, though it remains undisclosed which one – a missed opportunity, or either the yeast is not so special at all… Snow white, medium thick, moussy, slowly breaking head, misty orange-tinged deep golden beer, peachy with sediment. Aroma of ripe banana, mugwort leaves, honey, spice bread, dandelion, dough, moist white pepper, apple peel, peach, dried thyme. Fruity, sweet onset, banana, apricot and pear, medium carbonated; full, rounded white-bready malt sweetness with a layer of honeyish residual sugars on top but avoiding to become too sweet, especially in the finish, where a long, quite spicy hop bitterness is established, more so than in most other ‘broad-audience tripels’ in Belgium. Spicy thyme- and clove-like phenols appear too, along with a warming afterglow of ‘jenever’-like alcohol, while the sweet fruitiness from the onset pierces through the hops. Spicy, relatively hop bitter, well-balanced and solidly constructed tripel, not really adding anything ‘special’ to the genre though – so it seems to me the mysterious yeast used here is a pretty standard trappist or abbey ale yeast… Maybe they got yeast from a trappist brewery, explaining why they would not disclose its identity, but even then this choice would be one of the most obvious ones for this beer style, would it not?

Tap at In Den Rozenkrans, Leuven. My first blonde of my month Belgium. Hooray. And a good one to kick it all off. Really nice sweet aroma. Golden. Classic blonde flavour and a boozey bitter ending. Quite heavy on the bannana. All round enjoyable really.