Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5

Ils nous ont massacré la Schuppenboer Tripel en nous y intégrant des fruits, d’ailleurs on ne sait même pas quels fruits et la dégustation ne permet même pas de les déterminer et le résultat est davantage un maelstrom difficilement identifiable. Côté équilibre, pas terrible avec un sucre trop présent et un alcool mal intégré. En définitive, nous sommes au bord du naufrage. En verre, ça se tient avec un blond doré limpide (EBC de 10) traversé par de très fines bulles. Une mousse blanche très fine couvre la surface. Le nez est sur la banane, la pêche, la groseille (avec une petite acidité donc) et du miel l’acacia. L’ensemble donné davantage l’impression d’arômes chimiques que d’arômes naturels. A la dégustation, l’attaque est peu équilibrée, trop douce, manquant d’amertume (avec pourtant un EBU de 48) avec du miel, de la pêche, de la banane, de légères épices et une pointe d’ananas. En deuxième bouche, l’alcool à 8 % ressort de trop, toujours avec cette base douceâtre avec un cocktail fruité méconnaissable. J’ai l’impression qu’ils ont mis trop de fruits, et que cela rend peu lisible l’ensemble. L’arrière bouche est sur un alcool complètement dissonant, accompagné d’une amertume herbacée. On retrouve d’ailleurs cette amertume herbacée sur le final, moyennement long et qui voit l’alcool fléchir. Quel triste sort pour une Schuppenboer !

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ van Rooij, Culemborg. Hazy golden with a white head. Fruity aroma. Sweet taste with a bitter finish. Looks, smells and tastes like a standard tripel to me to be honest; Don't get the added fruit at all but it's still a nice tripel.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Botella 33 cl XIV cata Ratebeer Asturias en Cimmeria 04..02..2018. (r12). Cortesía TeddyBeer.... Color dorado pálido velado con espuma blanca persistente. Sabores frescos maltosos con suaves herbáceos con toques secos resinos secos y ligeramente amargos duraderos. Cuerpo ligero a medio seco al final.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Botella. @XIV Cata Ratebeer Asturias, (Trade for TeddyBeer, Thanks!) 04/02/18 BBD:09/19
Color amarillo corona de espuma blanca, aromas a levadura, sabor dulce notas especiadas levadura, cuerpo medio.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Fles gedeeld met Roelzie1986. Het is een goudgeel bier met een medium schuimkraag. Het heeft een moutige fruitige geur. De smaak is moutig, zoet en een beetje meloen achtig.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle.
Golden color with a frothy and creamy white head with good retention. Aroma has light yeasty hints with bready notes and sweet malts. Flavor is malty, slightly sweet at the beginning. Bready notes if the final with some bitterness in the aftertaste.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Collaboration of Het Nest with MAD, a fruited version of Schuppenboer apparently, bottle from Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. Tightly 'paper' lacing, off-white, moussy, medium thick head slowly thinning in the middle but leaving a pattern of flat 'islands', over an initially clear, deep and warm 'old gold' coloured beer with some strings of visible fizz here and there; lightly hazy with sediment. Aroma of damp cloth, moist old grains, peaches, kitchen towel, pear, elderblossoms, herb cheese, camomile, hints of chewing gum, persimmon, grass, old potatoes, banana, bitter garden herbs, yellow raspberries but in a somewhat artificial way and - alas - quite strong DMS (overcooked cauliflower) which, as usual, just won't go away. Fruity onset, but not the overwhelming amount of fresh fruit I was hoping for - this is more a basic ale fermentation fruitiness, hinting at banana, peach and red apple, with perhaps a touch of pineapple and apricot thrown in, but it remains a total mystery which fruit species have been applied; generally sweetish, but restrainedly so, with a sourish undercurrent. Medium carbonated, slick body, notably grainy and cereally (almost like an all-malt strong pale lager) with only a very thin breadiness to it; ends surprisingly bitter, in a rooty, leafy, spicy way, a tad harsh even and probably just a bit too much in relation to the rather thin, grainy maltiness. Floral notes retronasally, some warming 'jenever'-like alcohol in the end but not too astringent, with cereally and subduedly fruity impressions lingering. Tonic-like hop bitterness gets the last word. This is totally different from what I was expecting: first of all, where is the "mixture of different fruits"? Granted, there is a subtle fruitiness to it I cannot quite point my finger on, but I really do not get whatever kind of actual fruit went in here. Then there is the case of the thin, grainy body and the harsh, wormwood-like bitterness positioned against it: if it were true that classic 19th- and 20th-century Belgian beer styles are all about balance, then this is clearly not very balanced. I have always held Nest in relatively high esteem since they usually master these Belgian ale styles very well, but this is a bit of a disappointment really. Not undrinkable or anything like that, just not quite up the standard I am used to from Het Nest and if you claim that MAD added an array of different fruits (in whatever form but hopefully not syrup or - worse - extracts), then at least make them visible to the naked eye... Yet, considering other ratings of experienced colleagues below, maybe I stumbled upon a bottle that has been kept for too long in unfavourable conditions (nothing exceptional at the store where I bought it) so I may need to give this a second chance fresh from tap or something.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tasting glass draft @ Billie’s Bier Kafétaria. Clear orange, collapsing soapy white head. Nose is way too BE sweet yoghurt, bread, esters, BE yeast sweet. Taste is nasty plastic BE esters, yoghurt, soap, way too sweet, esters, stale candy, thick sweet BE brew. Way too BE & way too tripel for me, totally missing out on all the supposed fruit in here. Looks like I liked even less than the base beer oddly.

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