Rik & Raf
BramBrass in Heestert, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De MeesterBelgian Style - Tripel Regular
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Score
6.84
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Rik & Raf from BramBrass 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Classically styled Belgian tripel from a 'bierfirma' that does a lot of decidely un-Belgian beers as well - curious to see what Bram made of this overexposed genre... Thick and very mousy, frothy, egg-white, tightly cobweb-lacing, stable head, misty peach blonde robe with pale orange hue and swirls of enthusiastic sparkling throughout. Aroma of old bread, cooked potatoes, unripe peach, quite some DMS (cooked Brussels sprouts), soggy rusk, dusty old coriander seed, straw bale, minerals, vague dried orange peel, carrot soup and clove notes. Fruity onset, ripe banana mingled with peach, pear and some light pineapple, sweetish with a thin sourish edge, lively carbonated with minerally aspects, full and rounded, slick body. Soft bready and bit rusk-like maltiness with a sharper grainy edge, spicy phenols (clove) mixed with slightly soapy coriander, but with a lot of this obnoxious DMS returning retronasally as well; dryish finish, dry tea- and leaf-like hop bitter accent blending in with the phenols and the coriander, and highlighted by a warming, 'jenever'-like alcohol glow. Well - yes, this is a classic style tripel indeed, adding very little (if anything) to the existing ocean of tripels already present in this country; what bothered me the most here, is that overload of DMS both orthonasally and retronasally, ruining the whole experience for me. If this DMS 'stench' would not have been around, it would still have been a rather unassuming tripel, though, so I'm afraid I have to say that I expected a lot more from this, being familiar with BramBrass's IPA and stout output. Pity, even for what it intends to be. Sincerely sorry Bram!
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Rik & Raf from BramBrass 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle from LDW, Eke. Hazy golden colour, white foam. Sweet nose with yeasty notes, light hoppy. Taste is medium sweet, fruity, some alcoholic sharpness. Not a bad tripel.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Rik & Raf from BramBrass 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
1/I/20 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ Ardennes holiday, BB: I/2023, Lot A - (2020-1)
Little cloudy orange beer, small creamy bit irregular, off-white, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity, peaches, bit sourish, bit chemical, overripe fruits, bit malty, banana. MF: rather lively carbonation, medium body. Taste: bitter start, little fruity, dry, malty, some grains, hay, spicy, bit grassy, coriander. Aftertaste: bit chemical, harsh bitterness, dry, spices, coriander, some band-aid, not very bad, not great either…