Brugge Tripel
De Gouden Boom (Palm) in Brugge, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.56
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The Bruges city beer of old, potent and bitter-sweet BRUGGE Tripel has a beautiful golden-blond colour and a firm, rocky head, leaving a trail of Bruges lace on the glass. The aroma has a typical touch of smoked phenolic, and the flavour is bitter, rich and creamy.
The secret of the BRUGGE Tripel city beer is the unique composition of the “gruut” blend of herbs and spices used to enrich its flavour and aroma. In Bruges, anyone brewing beer was obliged to purchase “gruut” from the city’s herbs and spices shop, known as the “Gruuthuse”. Jan van Brugge and his descendents, who later changed their name to Van Gruuthuse, had a monopoly on the sale of Bruges “gruut” that lasted late into the 16th century. At the same time, taxes were levied to the Count of Flanders. In BRUGGE Tripel, this medieval tradition continues.
The secret of the BRUGGE Tripel city beer is the unique composition of the “gruut” blend of herbs and spices used to enrich its flavour and aroma. In Bruges, anyone brewing beer was obliged to purchase “gruut” from the city’s herbs and spices shop, known as the “Gruuthuse”. Jan van Brugge and his descendents, who later changed their name to Van Gruuthuse, had a monopoly on the sale of Bruges “gruut” that lasted late into the 16th century. At the same time, taxes were levied to the Count of Flanders. In BRUGGE Tripel, this medieval tradition continues.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear deep golden colour, large frothy white head, recedes slowly, good lacing. Rich aroma, toasted malts, peach, banana, raspberry, candy sugar, vanilla, almond, coriander, clove, ginger, alcohol. Taste medium sweet and bitter, fruity, herbal and spicy notes. Full body, oily to creamy texture, average carbonation, peppery on the tongue, aftertaste mild herbal bitterness, fruity and spicy notes. Overall a complex and well-balanced tripel, rich on fruity and herbal notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2015
at 09:34
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl bottle. Pours clear light amber colour with a huge to mid-sized most good lasting off-white head. Aroma of sweet malt, fruits, caramel, honey. Taste of sweet malt, dry fruits, honey, some alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2015
at 16:19
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Dark golden with average foam. Aroma: wine, malt, pear. Taste: clean, malty, alcohol and white dry sherry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2015
at 08:46
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl Bottle. Not very enthusiastic about this, it’s decent but I can’t think of anything to say really. Backlog from 2014/06/03. --- Beer merged from original tick of Brugge Tripel on 03 Jun 2014 at 23:33 - Score: 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2015
at 16:37
Tried
on 21 Nov 2015
at 15:53
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
[9/21/15] Draught at Le Trappiste in Bruges. Clear golden. Aroma of fruity esters and some spiciness. Yeasty flavor, fruity, spicy. Medium-bodied.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2015
at 03:41
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cloudy golden colored, medium off white lasting head. Aroma is of brewing sugar, some caramel and fruits, lots of spices. Taste is medium+ sweet Belgian sugary, lots of spices again with some caramel, bit citric, medium- bitterness, some yeast. Medium bodied and carbonation. (bottle, ’t Brouwershuis at Palm Brewery, Steenhuffel, B)
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2015
at 15:39
8/10
Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2015
at 05:07
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Flaska från Beernavigator, 1,5 år gammal. Gyllengul klar med ett småbubblig skum som snabbt lägger sig. En trippel på den sötare delen av trippelspektrat. Söta maltsmaker med söta äpplen, apelsinblom och lite syltade apelsinskal och en ganska markerad apelsinskalsbeska som räddar balansen. En hel del alkoholvärme utan att alkoholen slår igenom nämnbart. Kanske inte toppklass men en hel del kvalité ändå.
Tried
on 30 Jul 2015
at 05:39
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, as Brugge Triple gruut. Rose gold with a white head. Unrefined but cheerful grainy aroma with some honey, orange peel, surprisingly mild spices. And so it tastes. Not all that sweet, alcohol is reasonably well hidden, bitter and just about dry enough at the end. Not very classy but OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2015
at 10:36