Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle 0.33. Blonde color with a big frothy white foamy cap. Nose: lime, mineral. Medium body, thinner than regular alike triple, medium sweet.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at Heerlijk Mariakerke Gold beer lasting white head. Soft in mouth. Some herb or spice. Apparently its seaweed. A breeze of salt. Its a decent blond. Some herb and hop on the finish. Fine.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle. Cloudy golden orange. Boozy apple, fart. Soapy soft creamy, nearly no edge. Juicy soft.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

33cl bottle from Spar supermarket in Oostende. F: big, white, good retention. C: gold, hazy. A: malty, banana, pear, spicy, honey, bit bready, bit mineral. T: full malty base, pear, banana, spicy, honey, bit bready, mineral touch, bit juniper alcohol, coriander, medium carbonation, not bad at all, enjoyed.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Spar Oostende. Hazy golden, small, white head. Aroma of banana liqueur, ripe apple, apricot, white bread, honey, flowers (daisy!), pineapple. Taste has sweet banana, pineapple & pear, the latter giving off a phenolic touch, but quickly drenched again in sweetness thanks to honey malts and even residual sugar. Bit wheaty sour in the middle, somewhat spicy, no apparent seaweed character. Spicy, floral hoppy finish, lingering ripe fruits and warming alcohol hinting at jenever. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Not too bad for an average Tripel, but they should have taken the seaweed element a bit further.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

The strongest of the three Seaking beers but the ‘smallest’ in terms of production volumes; allegedly brewed with seaweed in an attempt to evoke the seaside. Thick, egg-white, regularly shaped, dense and stable, tightly membrane-lacing head, initially clear deep and pure ‘metallic blonde’, old-gold robe with vivid sparkling, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of banana and banana bread, coriander seed, ‘oude jenever’, unripe peach, dry straw, sweet potatoes, dried field flowers, parsnip, parsley root and perhaps, indeed, a very faint salty-minerally accent in the background which I assume has to represent the maritime aspect of this beer. Sweetish fruity onset, clear banana ester mingled with hints at pineapple and halfripe pear, fizzy carbonation, minerally – but that more specific ‘salty’ minerality I thought I caught in the nose, remains all but absent; smooth and slick, full body, white-bready and lightly honeyish maltiness gently spiced by a pinch of coriander seed – after which a medium long, floral hop bitterness develops, slowly fading into the finish but lingering about when a warming, ‘jenever’-tinged alcohol glow appears. Standard Belgian tripel, very accessible, but also very correctly made without even the slightest trace of technical errors – which is something I can always appreciate, considering how many flawed local tripels are around these days. That said, my excitement about tasting a tripel with seaweed – and therefore changing the old standard tripel template with an interestingly far-fetched ingredient – was quickly gone, because seaweed is hardly noticeable here, if at all. I would have opted for a (modern) Gose-like saltiness instead, but I guess the brewer did not dare take the risk of presenting the unsuspecting, ordinary, macro-beer-drinking tourist at the Belgian seaside with something he probably would not be able to finish… --- Beer merged from original tick of Huisbier Seaking Tripel on 20 Oct 2020 at 12:31 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6. Original review text: The strongest of the three Seaking beers but the ‘smallest’ in terms of production volumes; allegedly brewed with seaweed in an attempt to evoke the seaside. Thick, egg-white, regularly shaped, dense and stable, tightly membrane-lacing head, initially clear deep and pure ‘metallic blonde’, old-gold robe with vivid sparkling, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of banana and banana bread, coriander seed, ‘oude jenever’, unripe peach, dry straw, sweet potatoes, dried field flowers, parsnip, parsley root and perhaps, indeed, a very faint salty-minerally accent in the background which I assume has to represent the maritime aspect of this beer. Sweetish fruity onset, clear banana ester mingled with hints at pineapple and halfripe pear, fizzy carbonation, minerally – but that more specific ‘salty’ minerality I thought I caught in the nose, remains all but absent; smooth and slick, full body, white-bready and lightly honeyish maltiness gently spiced by a pinch of coriander seed – after which a medium long, floral hop bitterness develops, slowly fading into the finish but lingering about when a warming, ‘jenever’-tinged alcohol glow appears. Standard Belgian tripel, very accessible, but also very correctly made without even the slightest trace of technical errors – which is something I can always appreciate, considering how many flawed local tripels are around these days. That said, my excitement about tasting a tripel with seaweed – and therefore changing the old standard tripel template with an interestingly far-fetched ingredient – was quickly gone, because seaweed is hardly noticeable here, if at all. I would have opted for a (modern) Gose-like saltiness instead, but I guess the brewer did not dare take the risk of presenting the unsuspecting, ordinary, macro-beer-drinking tourist at the Belgian seaside with something he probably would not be able to finish…

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

10/III/20 - 33cl bottle as a gift, shared @ lunch tasting, BB: IX/2021 (2020-247) Thanks to Johan VC for the bottle!

Clear gold blond beer, big creamy solid off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: nori seaweed, bit malty, spicy, yeast, a bit off. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet and very sugary, ripe banana, malty, spicy, some alcohol, weird. Aftertaste: metallic, very sugary, spicy touch, rather unpleasant, way too sweet, yeast, pretty bad. Don’t like it...

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