Tripel
Brouwerij Ginderachter in Erpe-Mere, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.27
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5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4
Yet another hobby brew (made by a bio engineer for a family celebration more than a year ago now) gone commercial, in very limited quantities and very locally. Light gusher, but manageable. Eggshell-white, bubbly, uneven head dissolving quickly and eventually completely vanishing; misty to cloudy apricot blonde robe with yellow-ochre hue. Aroma of (weirdly) old popcorn, parsnip purée, mashed potato, soggy cornbread, industrial honey, old apples, bubblegum, rainwater, sweet ripe pear, green apple acetaldehyde note. Estery onset but ‘dirty’ with a dim underlying sour tone betraying onsetting infection; pineapple, banana and stewed pear aspects, sweet, with fizzy carb and slick body. Bubblegummy and weirdly corn-like middle, cereally, almost cheap pale lager-like but fuller, softer and breadier, some spicy phenols in the end, ongoing corn-like flavour (corn flour dissolved in water), soapy and a bit dusty, wheaty and remaining bubblegummy with almost no hop bitterness at all – there is no redemption. Underhopped, uninspired, simplistic, mildly infected tripel (a style we already have too many representatives of in this country) with a weird and unpleasant corn-like flavour, this is among the worst commercialized beers – however limitedly so – I ever had, at least of the 'artisanally' made ones so disregarding all that mass-produced industrial crap. With all due respect, but I would recommend this gentleman to find another business – this beer would be bad even if it were a hobby brew made in some amateur’s kitchen. Maybe the two others are better?
Tried
on 05 Nov 2019
at 11:24