*rating overgezet* Het is een troebel goudgeel bier met een medium witte schuimkraag. Het aroma is moutig, geroosterd , kruidig en licht fruitig. De smaak is fruitig, moutig, caramel en licht houtig.

Vintage 2019 versie. Bruin bier met schuim. Smaak is licht zoet en enigszins kruidig met iets van hout en hars. Heel aparte maar best aangename smaak.

Unclear, yellow-golden colored, medium white frothy head, nice lasting. Aroma is of some malt, bit sugary, toasty, spicy and some fruity notes, Belgian yeasty, some toasted oak. Taste is medium sweet malt, caramel and some sugary notes, some oak, toasty, spicy yeast, some fruit, medium bitterness. Medium+ bodied, average+ carbonation, oily. (bottle, Bierhalle Deconinck, Vichte)

Bottle with cork and muselet from the BOMBrouwerij, which in its core specializes in beers with a ’baked’ or toasted theme; this one is matured on slowly roasted Belgian oak wood. Had a quick sample of this at BBF last week but it fascinated me so I purchased a whole bottle for closer study. Initially towering high and very foamy (wheat-enhanced!) but ultimately reducing, eventually medium thick, egg-white, coarse head consisting of fairly large bubbles yet tightly knit together and leaving behind a complicated pattern of cobweb lacing around the glass; lightly hazy, pure and warm golden blonde colour with somewhat olive green-ish hue, turning an equally misty pale orange with sediment. Aroma of banana peel, orange-scented soap and soap ’tout court’, hard pear, granadilla, powder sugar melting on a hot pancake, fresh camomile, hint of (fresh) vanilla-ish oak but subtle, bubblegum, gin, lightly toasted white bread, freshly cut apple, dust, warm cloth, pineapple cubes, straw, gooseberry, melting margarine, something very vaguely sweaty. Crisp, lively onset, lots of yellow plum, gooseberry and redcurrant sourishness as well as pineapple, pear and banana sweetness, both well balanced against each other but going a bit lost in a storm of fierce, crystalline, sparkling carbonation which initially numbs the tongue to a high degree, but recedes after the bottle has been open for a while, allowing the fruity flavors to shine. Smooth, bit oily, even somewhat buttery mouthfeel, established by a rounded, cereally and lightly caramelly maltiness and unmistakable soft wheat ’soapiness’, adding something pleasantly creamy and ’dimly’ sourish. The toasted aspect can be downgraded from ’medium’ to ’light’ as far as I’m concerned: there is a vague toasted bread-like accent in the end, but it remains superficial and volatile, with just a flash of oaky woodiness passing by swiftly and probably remaining largely unnoticed to those who drink this with less attention to detail than I am purposely doing now. Herbal, earthy and spicy ’end’ hop bitterness is a welcome distraction from the relative sweetness and soapiness of the earlier stages, but refrains from becoming truly bittering, instead adding elegant floral notes retronasally. After this, the expected glow of gin- or even Kirsch-like alcohol shows up, warming the throat and accompanying the malt sweetness, fruitiness and late hop bitterness downwards. Pleasant tripel, no technical flaws or off-flavors here which already makes this an accomplished brew, but the toasty aspect I was looking forward to, remains very limited and is a bit lost in all this malt sweetness and warming alcohol. I hope a ’strong toast’ version of this is on its way - this leaves me a bit unsatisfied, frankly. Yet a very decent, tasteful and well-crafted tripel so seen in that respect, it surpasses a lot of more mediocre attempts at the style still flooding this, in all, relatively conservative ’beer museum’ of a country. Enjoyable strong blonde, just not quite what I was hoping for.

Thank you for sharing tderock + kraddel! Sampled 750 ml. bottle @ Bruges Beer Festival 2017. Hazy citrus, uneven white bubbles. Nose is very soapy, big on cleaning products, industrial, esters, fizzy. Taste of cleaning products, fizzy, chemical, soap, esters, over-carbonated. Mmmh, outside of Winter Oak, all Belgian Oak variants have disaponted me so far. No idea what went on here.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Triporteur Belgian Oak (Medium Toast) (by BOMBrouwerij):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5

5/II/17 - 75cl bottle @ Brugs Bierfestival - BB: n/a (2017-155) Thanks to 77ships, kraddel and Rubin77 for sharing today's beers!

Clear pale blond beer, big irregular off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: grains, bit sourish, malty, yeast, sour apples, nice fruity touch. MF: lively carbon, medium body. taste: fruity start, bit sourish, green apple, bit yeasty, dirty touch. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, hoppy, grains, malty, bit sourish, very bitter and hoppy.

Bottle. Pours clear, light blonde, with a good and stable white head. Smell is rather intense. fresh, some mild hop aroma, yeasty, some banana-like fruityness. Taste is bitter up front, with a late-coming , grassy aromatic side. The oak is extremely subtile at this moment, perhaps it will change when the hoppyness fades? I do get notes of it ( perhaps only because I know it’s in there though ) nice and refreshing, easy beer as it is now, yet I am curious to what age will do to it. Body is a bit to thin for me, carbo is high, but I can agree to it in te full picture