Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

Imported from my RateBeer account as Strubbe Ullewupper (by Brouwerij Strubbe):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5

15/VIII/18 - 33cl bottle @ Kruidtuin (Gent) - BB: 23/X/19 (2018-992)

Clear bright blond to light orange beer, big irregular solid creamy white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, grains, bit yeasty, almonds, slightly fruity, some orange peel, bit metallic. MF: very lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very metallic start, pretty malty, bit sweet, malty. Aftertaste: bit spicy, yeast, bit of banana, some almonds, little oxidized, soft bitterness.

Commissioned Strubbe tripel with irregular, thick, frothy, eggshell-white head and hazy straw blonde colour with ’old gold’ hue. Aroma of cooked vegetable but in the non-DMS way (cooked turnip, carrot and salsify), banana, powder sugar, orange peel, soggy white bread, chamomille, cheese cake, meringue, some vague but undisturbing iron, grass, young ’jenever’, yellow kiwi, melting butter, vague DMTS (burnt rubber). Fruity, lively onset with lots of banana, kiwi and overripe pear sweetness paired with a sourish gooseberry edge, strongish carbo distracting a bit from the actual flavor, smooth and lightly oily mouthfeel; bready and honeyish malt sweetness builds a firm backbone while the play of fruity esters goes on. Finish remains primarily malt and residual sugar sweet but adds some earthy, floral hop bitterishness (though insufficiently so) as well as a glow of warming, white rum-like alcohol. Acceptable but not entirely flawless, there are a few small misfits in the nose and the taste is, generally speaking, too sweet even for a (very) commercially intended tripel. Another redundant example of this worn-out style.