Pours unclear blonde, good white head. Smell is very mild, bit sweet. Taste is off, clearly. Has very plastic notes ( fermentation at too high temperature, so I’ve heard - when I had these flaws in my homebrews. Still, the beer isn’t completely undrinkable yet. some sweetness (going hand in hand with the plastic notes ) A bit grainy, mild yeasty. Would have been an average, OK beer, if it were not for the very, very clearly off-taste.

33 cl bottle. Pours sweet and toaasted malty. Sweet, caramelish. Sweet malty. Slight herbal. Dry and bitter.

The newest beer from this coastal brewery, a spiced tripel with thickly ’membranous’ lacing, egg-white, thick and frothy, bubbly head and hazy straw blonde robe with vague ochre-ish hue, especially after adding the sediment; calm sparkling. Aroma of green apple (acetaldehyde), ripe gooseberries, lots of soapy coriander, dried basil, pear, banana (clear isoamylacetate), white bread dough, clove-like phenols, iron, fainter hints of pine-scented air freshener (artificial pine, let’s say), bubblegum, powder sugar, dry earth, gin, turnip, freshly grated ginger, moldy orange peel, minerals, unripe kiwi, white pepper, moist sawdust somewhere. Fruity, mildly estery onset, lots of gooseberry, some ripe pear and banana, sweetish and sourish mixture, medium carbo (average for the style) with a supple, lean mouthfeel. Sweet and sour fruitiness carries on over a bready middle with sharper grainy edges, as well as a slight metallic ’zing’, leading to a dryish finish with a herbal, earthy and floral hop bitterness, a lot of soapy coriander spiciness and the expected glow of warming, gin-like alcohol; some bready yeastiness lingers along, and so do the sweet and sour fruitiness as well as traces of the pale malt sweetness. The soapy coriander flavour dominates, all things considered. Spicy tripel indeed, technically correct, but once again ’overcoriandered’ as is the case with too many Belgian ales, whether you look at it from a classically Belgian 20th century point of view or from a contemporary international craft beer point of view. Needs cleaning up and tuning down to more balance and elegance, but at least it is not overly sweet, like many other of the countless tripels which still flood this country.