Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Bit floral with peppery yeast, malt, light fruity, herbal. Fairly bitter for a Tripel with a mild sweetness, medium body.

Bottle at home. Unclear yellow color, medium sized white head. Aroma and flavor are light to medium malty, sweetish a bit, a bit herbal, herbal bitter. Nothing fancy but it's okay.

Golden pour and a fine head. Ok lacing.
Fine intensity in the aroma.
Balanced sweetness and a fine carbonation level
Pleasant to drink.. Mild acidity.
Malty, fruity, mild citric, some spices and some yeast in the flavor
[Bottle at Dr Beer in Antwerpen, Belgium]

Brewery # 2991

Almost clear deep golden beer with a big white head. Aroma of mild herbal pale malt, straw, yeast. Taste of moderate herbal pale malt, straw and grains, belgian yeast, high carbonation.

Erhöhte Karbonisierung. Süffiger, hell herber Beginn. Helles Malz, geringe Bitterkeit, ziemlich trocken. Minimale Süße, kurzer Abgang, unspannend. 9/7/8/7/9/7

quick rate. Appearance- cool label, generic bottle cap. From - thin, bitter, hoppy. bottle Taste - hops, biutter tones, large foam, weak belgian yeast, weak malt.. ok.

The classic tripel in this otherwise not (too) classic first series of Mortselarij beers, bottle from the brewery. Very thickly mousy, egg-white, uneven-bubbled, irregularly lacing, thinning and eventually opening head on an initially lightly hazy, slightly peach-tinged 'old gold' coloured beer with lots of visible sparkling, turning misty and somewhat deeper orangey-peach with sediment. Aroma - after the sharp effect of carbon dioxide has faded a bit - of ripe banana, cooked apple, ripe pear, honey, calvados, sugar loaf, orange zest, cold rain falling on hot rocks, sugar cones, bitter plant leaves, old dry grapefruit peel. Spritzy, rather sweet onset with a slight sourish edge, strong banana ester mingled with pineapple, pear and peach, relatively pronounced honeyish sugariness over a soft, doughy, bready malt base, medium carbonated; floral and orange zest aromas retronasally, quite elegantly so. Ends with a mildly spicy hoppy bitterness and quite some outspoken, calvados-like, warming alcohol, balancing on the brink of astringency but (just) remaining tolerable. Decent enough tripel, supple and quite elegant if not too ambitious for the style - because to be fair, this is just another sweet and boozy, redundant tripel. There is worse in this segment, though.

Ultra dense & fine head, huge, totally stable with a pinkish-yellow sheen, over fully cloudy orange beer. Bit sweetish nose, one more terribly hampered by the concrete head. Slightly perfumey, even fruit, yeast features dominating. After some time, hint @ vanilla. Sweet-alcoholic-scorched sugar. Finish has both something peppery as well as green vegetables. Amandine/vanilla warming up. Well-bodied (for a triple), bit slick, good carbonation. Maybe my least favourite Mortselarij so far - then again, the "style", Westmalle excepted, is not exactly mine.