FoxTown Beer Crew InnerFox Tripel

InnerFox Tripel

 

FoxTown Beer Crew in Vosselaar, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪

Brewed at/by: Craywinckelhof
  Belgian Style - Tripel Regular
Score
6.68
ABV: 8.3% IBU: 40 Ticks: 11
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6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Yet another self-proclaimed 'bierfirma' with - so far at least - a single beer, brewed at Craywinckelhof... As far as I am concerned, this company, called FoxTown Beer Crew and located in Lubbeek east of Leuven, does not yet deserve a separate brewery entry here, but I'll leave that to the admins (and I will not go into the fact that the brewer himself apparently already gave his own beer a score of 4.2/5 here...). Large-bubbled, snow white, lightly lacing, coarse and bit irregular head initially stabilized by fierce sparkling but slowly showing gaps and eventually thinning into a disrupted ring around the glass; lightly hazy, pale straw blonde robe with somewhat greenish tinge. Aroma of halfripe banana, fried apples, hint of lime peel, dried lemonbalm, Conference pear, white bread dough, whiffs of soap, honey, yellow jelly beans, young 'jenever', minerals, straw, dusty old cotton cloth, potato peel, vague rubbery note and a - fortunately very faint - background note of DMS (cooked green cabbage). Sweetish onset, lots of banana ester with accompanying notes of green apple, pear and unripe melon with perhaps a vague dash of pineapple, sourish edge, lively carbonation with outspoken minerally effects; supple, slick body. White-bready and slightly wheat-soapy middle with ongoing banana ester, while the sharpish carbonation remains active and more and more phenolic aspects arise (4-vinyl guaiacol - clove, but a tad 'meaty' somewhere as well). Ends with lingering grassy hop bitterness underneath the esters, phenols and wheat soapiness, followed by a glow of 'jenever'-like alcohol, which could have been a bit better hidden. Sleek and stylized label, longneck bottle, English brewery and beer name, but nothing innovative in the bottle as expected - even if that 'postmodern' house style could well announce less classically Belgian beers to come, who knows... By itself, not a bad tripel per se, a sleek, slender and refreshing example of the style, so Craywinckelhof technically did a good job as usual; it's just that I don't see the need for yet another one of these. These guys will have to come up with something much more ambitious if they want to make a lasting impression. My inner fox is in any case still sound asleep after this one.
Tried from Bottle on 18 May 2020 at 22:42