Tripel I Like
BeerSelect in Sint-Denijs-Westrem, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.41
|
|
Gold medal winner at European Beer Challenge 2020.
Bronze award winner at World Beer Awards 2020.
Sign up to add a tick or review
jefverstraete (7493) reviewed Tripel I Like from BeerSelect 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from LDW, Eke. Hazy golden colour, white foam. Nose of banana, citrus. Taste is bitter, spicy, some banana and medicins. Lots of alcohol. Harsh and unbalanced. Tripel I don't like.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Tripel I Like from BeerSelect 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Another tripel with a modern packing (longneck bottle and English name) but classical content - do we really need yet another one of these in this country? What is even more annoying, is that some people here think that because some or other commissioner (this one is being brewed at BeerSelect, close to where I live) markets a single beer and puts his own company name (Beer I Like in this case) on the label, said company immediately deserves its own 'brewery' status on this site, long before they have proven how serious they are about it - and how creative they will turn out to be. I would simply have put this one under BeerSelect as such, but who knows, maybe this Beer I Like project will spawn more creations in the future and become a respected client brewer ('bierfirma') one day... Anyway, on to the beer: very thick and frothy, tightly plaster-like lacing, egg-white, stable head on a misty, deep orange-golden peach blonde beer showing a whirl of sparkling raging through the mist. Aroma of peaches drenched in 'jenever', ripe banana, ground coriander seed, fried red apple, sugar loaf, a minerally aspect of cold rain falling on hot rocks, cooked carrots, hints of roses, honey, glue, dry earth. Sweetish onset with light sourish edge, clear banana ester mingled with ripe peach, red apple and orange notes, lively carbonation but not harshly so and very well fit for the style, soft, bit 'fluffy' body. Bread-pulp-like and lightly caramelled, honeyish maltiness with spicy aspects woven into it, mostly from coriander seed and seemingly from dried citrus peel as well but more subtly so, but also from well-dosed and very mild background phenols; floral hop character, offering some lightly earthy 'end bitterness' but the sweetness remains the prime element, until it is 'broken' a bit by a very obvious, somewhat wry, 'jenever'-like alcohol effect that brings yet another kind of bitterness all the way at the back. Conceptually, this is as cliché as it gets: no fancy English name or longneck bottle can change the fact that we are in old school, 20th-century Belgian territory here without even the slightest nod to the huge international developments in beer that have taken place since then. Judged as the 'standard' tripel that it is, I have to admit that it is anything but bad: it is streamlined, technically well done and easily drinkable, there are many (and much) worse tripels around in Belgium especially today; the only thing bothering me a bit, is the (very) badly hidden alcohol, making for a very boozy, annoyingly astringent finish, in which one can actually feel the alcohol heat gliding down in the chest. It was a good idea from these guys to turn to BeerSelect to have their boring creation commercially realized, I reckon.