10
OX Brewery in Wevelgem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.72
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed 10 from OX Brewery 7 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
The strong blonde - now explicitly dubbed 'tripel' - in this Ox range, a pseudo-revivalist brewery in Wevelgem southwest of Courtray referring to a 16th-century historical brewery there (I assume without any living descendants able to claim the name from these guys)... Bottle from the Carrefour supermarket in Sint-Denijs-Westrem. Medium thick, frothy, beautifully 'Kortrijkse kant'-like lacing, egg-white, very stable head on a misty peach blonde robe with orangey glow. Quite strong yet simple and not too inviting aroma of honey, old potatoes, soggy old bread, peach, cooked tomatoes, overcooked cauliflower (DMS), cold carrot soup, cooked pear, sugar beet, green tree leaves in summer, wodka. Sweet onset though not overly cloying, ripe peach and pear hints, low in banana (oddly perhaps), sweet red apple and a dash of yellow plum, estery and very 'Flemish', with active but small-bubbled carb and smooth, full, somewhat 'fluffy' mouthfeel. Soft sweet bready and sandwich-like maltiness then passes, already with a trail of 'dirtiness' behind it - a 'dead' yeastiness which has absorbed probably more (hop) bitterness than was the intention. Indeed a dried-flower-, dandelion-root-like earthy hop bitterness lingers at the back, in itself well in balance with the malts, sugars and esters at least to contemporary Flemish norms, but in my view insufficiently capable of countering that sweetness. Some warming wodka-like alcohol in the end, amidst this underachieving hoppiness, lingering esteriness and yeasty 'dirtiness' - highlighting not only those elements but also a whiff of coriander, as it apparently ought to be in Belgian tripels nowadays (note that the archetypes of the style did and do not contain a grain of coriander at all). Your typical present-day Flemish tripel: boorish, crude, sweet, coarse, earthy and boozy, with the residual sugar and coriander seed clichés applied all too generously. On top of all this, DMS persists all the way and I sincerely hate it. One for the less discriminating beer drinker who does not know any better and aspires for a quick buzz. Perhaps I would do the same if ever in Wevelgem, but I am not here to judge. Oh wait a minute - I am...
gave a cheers!
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed 10 from OX Brewery 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at 't Mouterijtje Kortrijk. Hazy gold colour lasting white head. Yep a good strong blond. Bit of a kick to it. Malts are a little golden syrup. Some earthy hops. Some dryness on finish. Some spicy hop.decent.
Jybi (2409) reviewed 10 from OX Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Triple présentant un titrage de 8%, cette OX 10 a comme caractéristique de s'appuyer sur son alcool, mis en avant et faisant davantage que ses 8%. Triple sérieuse, possédant du caractère et bien équilibrée donc. Le visuel sur un joli blond quasi limpide surmonté d'une mousse blanche de 5 mm est également appréciable. Le nez est sans fanfreluche, sur le citron, la banane, la pêche, les céréales et la coriandre, mais sur un cocktail appréciable. A la dégustation, si l'équilibre est bien trouvé avec un alcool bien présent, il aurait été avantageux que les autres arômes soient plus présents en retro. A l'attaque la présence épicée se fait bien ressentir en complément de l'alcool. En seconde bouche, l'expression de la levure est un peu plus présente. L’arrière-bouche sur un alcool se renforçant est quant à lui tempétueux. La corpulence est honnête. Le final, long, est plus épuré. Plaisant.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed 10 from OX Brewery 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Imported from my RateBeer account as OX 10 (by OX Brewery):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 8/20, MyTotalScore: 2.2/5
29/VI/19 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ Abeel's place, BB: IX//2021 - (2019-910)
Clear pale orange beer, quite some debris floating around in the glass under a small aery fizzy white head, unstable, dissipates quickly. Aroma: very rural, malty, raw grains, cow stable, some orange peel, bit of caramel, sugary impression. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: overripe banana, sweet and sugary, very malty, oxidized, some marzipan, orange peel. Aftertaste: sweet, lots of alcohol, sugary, very malty, metallic, overripe banana, more metallic, pretty boring.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed 10 from OX Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from LDW, Eke. Hazy golden colour, white creamy foam. Sweet nose, notes of banana, peach, spices. Lively carbonation. Taste is rather sweet with light bitter hints.