Tripel XXX (Java Bier - Zeeuws Tripel)

Good, if shortlived cream-coloured head over hazy, pale-ish orange beer. Creamy, spicy nose, white candi sugar, coriander, lemoncookies. Bitterish-spicy, oxydized, coriander. Not exactly inviting. Medium bodied, slick, oxydation. Really inferior.Earlier Rating: 3/7/2011 Total Score: 3.1Huge, dense, off-white head over darker, clear-golden beer, heavily carbonated. Grainy, faint spicy and vegetable nose, bit milky and white candi sugar. More bitter, toasted flaovur, again spicy as with curaçoa peel, some coriander, and toasted malts. Caramel and candi sugar touches, alcohol in the finish. Quite spritzy, little restsugars, very carbonated. Aftertaste has some green leaves, certainly warming up, and becomes more sweet all the same. Huyghe Tripel indeed. BTW, why do the Dutch spell Tripel always in French?

Tripel from a local brewery in Hulst, located in a part of the Netherlands which once belonged to Flanders. Light yellowish white, irregular, sticky, stable head, colour deep ’old gold’, clear. Aroma fruity and fresh, pineapple, orange, lemon zest, spicy hops, coriander, blue cheese (infection?). Fruity taste, sweetish pale malts but not really sweet, mild hoppy, spicy finish but unfortunately a lot of badly hidden, wry alcohol as well.

Just another Belgian tripel. There are hundred’s of these, but somehow almost every brewer makes one of these.

bottle, thank you Bierkoning! Hazy golden, intensively malty and fruity, shy hoppy finish.

(Draught at Arendsnest, Amsterdam, 15 July 2011) Golden colour with frothy, white head. Fruity nose with apricots, citrus and spicy hints of coriander. Fruity taste with notes of apricots, peaches, citrus, tropical fruit and a mild, spicy bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with balanced sweetness. Quite nice.

Bottle at Cafe Buitenlust, Oirschot. Pretty standard yellow golden tripel color. Smell and taste a little sour. Medium to full body, firm carbo.

Pretty nice triple, but also not above average. It’s a nice brew anyway. Decent.

Bottle 30cl @ home.Clear medium yellow orange color with some medium size particles, with a large, frothy, good lancing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, moderate yeasty, moderate ginger, some soap notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (040608)

Bottle. Citric aroma. Golden colour with lots of small floaties. Bready and citric flavour with a hint of metal and orange juice. OK balance. Not peppery.