Bottle from a gift. Hazy ochre, thin, foamy, white head. Aroma of ripe apricot, apple, pear, honey, coriander, yeast, vague vegetable (cauliflower perhaps, only low in DMS though). Taste has sweet ripe apple & pear, bready-malty with only mild clove-like phenols & a soapy coriander effect, vague vegetable accent in the back, very slightly metallic. Grassy hoppy finish, quite spicy-yeasty, ripe fruit & warming jenever-like alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Okay but easily forgettable.

Bottle from Van Eetvelde. Local beer from Lokeren, since last summer completing the blonde-brown-tripel triangle Belgian tradition prescribes (see Lokereire Blond, the original one, and Lokerasse Bruin). Slow gusher but nothing dramatic, apart from a hard to pour, towering high, foamy, egg-white, cobweb-lacing head, which quickly collapses to a thin layer of mousse on top of a misty peach blonde beer with vague khaki tinge. Aroma of ripe banana and banana mush, sweetclover, old 'jenever', lots of clove- and even anise-like phenol spiciness, meringue, soggy white bread, pear jam, honey, coriander seed, dried apple peel, hints of chewing gum, onion soup and white pepper. Fruity onset with strong but still enjoyable banana ester next to pineapple, red apple and apricot notes, very sharp and fizzy carbonation adding sourishness and a smooth, full mouthfeel. Old bread- and bread crust-like malt body, carrying ongoing fruity esters and a lot of spicy, but not medicinal or otherwise disturbing phenols to a somewhat soapy, mildly coriandered and florally and eventually even peppery hoppy finish, nicely bittering in spite of lingering bready malt and banana ester sweetness and followed by a gentle glow of 'jenever'-like alcohol. As cliché as it gets in terms of style, like the others, but demonstrably better executed, not hindered by off-flavours like DMS or things like that, and well-balanced between sweet and bitter, with the balance tilted towards the sweet. Based on the other two in this range, I must admit I expected way worse, this is very decent for a sweet Belgian cliché tripel.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Lokereire Tripel - Triple (by Brouwerij Danny):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5

4/X/17 - 33cl bottle @ home - BB: n/a (2017-1755) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!

Little cloudy blond beer, big solid creamy white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity, apple sauce, bit yeasty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: rather fruity, nice bitterness, bit grassy, apples, bit spicy. Aftertaste: sweet notes, fruity, some yeast, soft bitterness, not bad.