Meestereske Tripel
De Meester in Lendelede, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.65
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tripel by De Meester, depicting a dominatrix on its front label, hence also the name - one wonders why this theme was chosen... Very thick and rocky, egg-white, cobweb-lacing, stable head on an initially clear, warm 'metallic' old gold coloured beer with visible sparkling; turns hazy and deeper peachy-gold with sediment. Aroma of banana, coriander seed, white bread slices, raw turnip, freshly cut green apples, white pepper, honey, plaster, pear, withering grass, young 'jenever'. Sweetish onset, strong banana ester with hints of apple, pear and peach, lively carbonated with sourish effect but nowhere harshly numbing; slick but full white-bready pale malt sweetish core with some residual, honeyish sugariness on top, but nowhere cloying. Coriander seed spiciness in the finish, though not in an exaggerated manner, along with floral hops that actually match the coriander quite well; more bitterness, however, comes from hot, astringent, 'white' gin-like alcohol, becoming very prevalent in the end. Too prevalent, in fact: even in a near-10% ABV tripel, the alcohol ought to be better masked than this. Otherwise correct, ticking all the boxes of the style without actually adding anything to it; a clean, straightforward and stereotypical tripel. I am left wondering why on earth this beer needed to be created, all the more so because De Meester actually already has a standard tripel... 'Unnecessary' is an understatement in this case.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2020
at 12:08
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Carrefour. Pours clear golden with a big, lasting, frothy, off-white head; some lacing. Aroma of ripe apple & pear, banana peel, gin, honey, dough, white pepper. Taste is medium fruity sweet, notes of ripe apple & banana, phenolic ripe pear, residual white sugar & white bread, a tad spicy. Dryish, earthy hoppy finish, spicy, more ripe apple, honey, warming gin-like alcohol. Medium body, creamy texture, fizzy carbonation. Bit too sweet & spicy, roughly executed, quite unnecessary Belgian Tripel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2019
at 16:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
33cl bottle: at home on 2nd Oct 2019. Poured into a Forbidden Fruit chalice, slight haze to the golden body, thin white head. Barley sugar sweet with some yeasty and spicy notes in both the nose and taste. Two of these would give a huge hangover, but one is a great idea if you have a sweet tooth and like alcohol!
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2019
at 22:05
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle, slow gusher. Cloudy golden, small white head. Aroma has yeast, a little pepper, floral hops. Yeasty, spicy flavour. Some citrus. Quite rough yeastyness and some paint thinner in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2018
at 15:51