Bottlw at home. Quite clear orangy color, full sized white head. Sweetish aroma, hard to describe. Flavor to be honest is more of the same. Quite dull tbh. Strong blonde without a real idea behind it it seems. Meh.

Irregular, fluffy head over clear metallic copper beer. Sweet, aromatic nose, perfumey, almondy. Dull-sweet, rose-like flavour, almonds and not much else. Warming up it acquires a bitterness which is really a relief. Good if invisible carbonation, bit slick. Way too underattenuated for a tripel. This is not a tripel, but a strong(er) sweet blond. I wish it were as dry as the humour of Geubels... Thanks to Stef!

33cl bottle from ABS Drinks near Herent. F: medium, egg-white, good retention. C: deep gold, light hazy. A: banana, fruity, coriander, spicy, honey, bit bready. T: full malty base, banana, peach, spicy, coriander, bit caramel, decent bitterness, honey touch, medium carbonation, warming alcohol touch, quite nice for tripel yet nothing really memorable, enjoyed.

Bottle from LDW, Eke. Hazy golden colour, white foam. Nose of citrus, grass, some spices, little sourish. Not very well balanced. Not the best tripel.

Pours fairly clear, strawyellow. Medium sized, relatively unstable white head. Scent is surprisingly clean. minor sharp (metallic?) touch, but not the usual blow of isoamylacetate. Taste is surprisingly balanced. I get some banana, but the malts keep the upperhand. Minor hoptouch (earthy, spicy, european hops) . Still get a slight metallic-like touch. High carbo (too high for me, but i've had worse) . Overall, decent, but fairly average tripel.

Beer made for a popular comedian, who is apparently befriended with the brewer, and explicitly requested a "not too bitter", "tripel-like" beer - sigh... Audibly crackling, egg-white, mousy, frothy, lightly lacing, foamy head on a misty straw blonde beer with deep golden core and fierce strings of sparkling everywhere. Aroma of strong soapy coriander, ripe banana, pineapple jam, peach, honey, wet brown paper, bitter garden weeds, young 'jenever', bubblegum, young Gouda cheese, soggy white bread, clove, some raw potato when warming up. Sweetish, fruity onset, lots of banana and pineapple esters mingled with pear and peach, sharp and numbing, very minerally carbonation, rounded mouthfeel; sweetish white-bready maltiness with lingering sparkling minerality at the sides and a layer of honeyish residual sugar sweetness on top, acquiring ever more coriander seed soapiness and spiciness, while a dash of floral hops shows up late to the party and adds mild and rather brief bitterness. Some warming calvados-like alcohol accompanies the banana ester, coriander and clean malt sweetishness to the end - while the residual sugars continue their sweetness also till the very end, even becoming a little bit cloying. Not too bitter and tripel-like indeed so I hope Philippe Geubels is happy with the result, but this is obviously just another Belgian cliché where the background story is more complicated than the beer itself; contributes absolutely nothing to the already vast ocean of tripels in Belgium, but it is admittedly well-brewed, so passes for me for that reason alone. Boring concept executed very correctly by Vleesmeester. --- Beer merged from original tick of Zieke Geest on 20 Nov 2020 at 23:56 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6. Original review text: Beer made for a popular comedian, who is apparently befriended with the brewer, and explicitly requested a not too bitter, tripel-like beer - sigh... Audibly crackling, egg-white, mousy, frothy, lightly lacing, foamy head on a misty straw blonde beer with deep golden core and fierce strings of sparkling everywhere. Aroma of strong soapy coriander, ripe banana, pineapple jam, peach, honey, wet brown paper, bitter garden weeds, young 'jenever', bubblegum, young Gouda cheese, soggy white bread, clove, some raw potato when warming up. Sweetish, fruity onset, lots of banana and pineapple esters mingled with pear and peach, sharp and numbing, very minerally carbonation, rounded mouthfeel; sweetish white-bready maltiness with lingering sparkling minerality at the sides and a layer of honeyish residual sugar sweetness on top, acquiring ever more coriander seed soapiness and spiciness, while a dash of floral hops shows up late to the party and adds mild and rather brief bitterness. Some warming calvados-like alcohol accompanies the banana ester, coriander and clean malt sweetishness to the end - while the residual sugars continue their sweetness also till the very end, even becoming a little bit cloying. Not too bitter and tripel-like indeed so I hope Philippe Geubels is happy with the result, but this is obviously just another Belgian cliché where the background story is more complicated than the beer itself; contributes absolutely nothing to the already vast ocean of tripels in Belgium, but it is admittedly well-brewed, so passes for me for that reason alone. Boring concept executed very correctly by Vleesmeester.