A clear golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of belgian yeast, spicy and herbal malt. Taste of dry grainy malt, belgian yeast, yellow fruits.

33cl bottle from Primeurs Achiel in Oostende. F: medium, white, almost good retention. C: gold, light hazy. A: banana, red apples peels, spicy, honey, bready. T: full malty bae, banana, apples, bready, honey, spicy, toast, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, grainy and alcohol touch, ok for the style, enjoyed.

Bottle from Carrefour. Hazy golden, stable, foamy, white head with lots of sediment. Aroma of banana liqueur, ripe yellow apple, pineapple, honey, bread dough, clove. Taste has sweet estery banana, pineapple & apple, sugary-honey malty profile with doughy accents, spicy clove, aniseed & pepper in the middle; ends floral-peppery hoppy with 'wet' spiciness, ripe yellow fruit & warming gin-like alcohol. Medium body, creamy texture, average carbonation. Typical overly yeasty Tripel with too many sugary side effects.

Bottle from Belgian Brewed. Hazy orange colour, white foam. Fruity nose, some peach and banana. Taste is medium sweet, some herbal notes. Medium bitter finish.

Tripel commissioned by Primeurs Achiel, an old grocery store (since 1929) in Ostend that also deals in wine, cheese and other culinary products. Gusher, but slow enough to be manageable. Thick and frothy, egg-white, very mousy and fluffy, membrane-lacing, creamy and stable head, deep and warm glowing orange blonde colour made 'dirty' by a 'soup' of dead yeast bits everywhere, perturbed by whirls of fierce sparkling, quite interesting to behold, actually, shifting to a deep, more equally hazy orange blonde with sediment. Aroma of orange peel soaked in gin, bubblegum, banana bread, honey, pear candy, pineapple, freshly cut red apples, apricot jam, carrot soup, old jute bags, straw, dried sweetclover, iron piercing through (quite unmistakably so when warming up), young 'jenever', clove- and liquorish-like phenols. Sweet, lively, fruity onset, very estery, red apple, banana, pineapple and peach, with audibly fizzing, yet minute-bubbled and - thanks to that - non-numbing yet very vivid carbonation; residual white candi syrup sweetness on top of a smooth, full, bready and very lightly caramelly maltiness, with the fruity esters mingling with strong spicy phenols (clove, liquorish, even vague anise), towards a boozy finish in which the malt and residual sugar sweetness continue, barely balanced by an earthy, floral hop character and - more so perhaps - by a somewhat wry and crude, gin-like alcohol effect. Metallic effect is noticeable, but less strongly so than I was fearing based on the iron aspect in the nose. In all, an acceptable tripel for sure, sweet, very yeasty and boozy the way traditional Belgian consumers will like it; a bit rough on the edges though, with alcohol that could have been better hidden, sweetness that to me is not enough balanced by hop bitterness and yeasty effects that are a bit 'overboiling' even for a classically shaped Belgian ale. Unnecessary and rather unrefined, but passes.