Hibernus Quentum Tripel

Bottle @ Aarhus tasting. Hazy golden with a white head and lots of tiny floaties. Flavor is sweet, malty, fruity and yeasty. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish with warming alcohol. 231012

Bottle, 9%. Dark yellow with lots of floaties and small white head. Aroma is malt, yeast, phenols, fruit and spices. Flavour is malt, yeast, fruit, orange peel, spices, medium sweet, fruit with notes of alcohol.

33 cl bottle @ hotel room, Brussels. Rated on 19.07.2010
Aroma is sweetish with lots of wheat, some yeast and ripe fruits. Flavour has fruits, some apricot, yeasty notes and some alcohol. A bit too boozy but good still.

Bottle at Saraveza, pours a cloudy golden with a medium white head. Aroma of tart fruits, stone fruits, Belgian yeast. Flavour is both tart and sweet, with over-ripe fruits, light Belgian yeast and more of the over-ripe fruits. Very atypical for a tripel, much sweeter and slightly tarter. Excellent, despite its unorthodoxy.

750 ml bottle into chalice, 07/08 dating on the cork. Pours a very cloudy golden orange color with a 1-2 finger dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Thin wisps of lacing on the glass, with slight carbonation streaming up from the bottom. Aromas of big apricot, lemon, bread, pear, pepper, earth, herbal, grape, apple, honey, floral, and white wine funkiness. Some pretty nice aromas with good strength and balance. Taste of big grape, apple, apricot, pepper, herbal, earth, bread, orange, grass, candi sugar, honey, and slight white wine tanginess. Very nice balance of flavors, with good complexity. Medium carbonation and body; with a fairly slick and creamy mouthfeel as expected. Alcohol is very well hidden at 9% with only a slight warming after the finish. Very easy to sip on. Overall this is a very nice Tripel! Age definitely took some of the traditional peppery flavor from this; but it was still nicely balanced and very smooth. Too bad they discontinued this one, I would really like to try this fresh.

Brown 33cl bottle, best before 07-2011, drank 02-2010, poured, including whatever was at the base of the bottle, into my Westmalle chalice. A dull orange body, which was misty and murky filled the chalice, a clean, fairly thick, white head sat on top, the head soon fell to a thinner wispy covering with a lacing collar. Hunks of sediment could clearly be seen gambling through the cloudy body of the beer. Belgian yeast esters could be sniffed, along with the sweeter end of the citrus fruits (oranges and pink grapefruits). The taste was a heavenly mix of flavours, the aforementioned citrus fruits, Cloves? Cinnamon? and a sweetness that isn’t pushy like some Belgian beers, sugar is however listed as an ingrediant. The body tries to counter the heavy alcohol and almost manages to hide it, but fails, so the 9% ABV rears its head mid-way through the mouthfeel, getting stronger as the mouth dries. This is very drinkable, the alcohol is evident, but the whole package seems to cope well with it, sadly I don’t have another to follow this one (but I do have two more beers from this brewery to review, maybe even tonight).

Bit of a gusher so ends up with lots of residue in the glass and almost no fizz. Aroma quite yeasty. Flavour is a bit unrefined. The bread dough taste overpowers the light sweetness.

Ljus med stort skum, lite jästrester. Pilsnerliknande doft där humlen, gissningsvis Saaz, är tydlig, lite jästdoft. Frisk, syrlig, äpplen och jäst. Alkoholen finns där men stör inte. Mycket humlekaraktär men inte mycket beska kvar efter ett drygt års lagring.