5060391920399 - @BCB (heule); Hop: Golding, Cascade
18/XI/25 - 33cl bottle @ HoReCa Expo (Gent), BB: 6/II/26, LB06060224B 08:30 (2025-1307) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!

Clear gold blond beer, creamy dense white head, stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet impression, honey, orange marmalade, sugary impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: good bitterness, very yeasty, alcohol, malty, gentle bitterness, sweet and sugary, some honey. Aftertaste: more sweetness, honey, a bit sugary, malty, grains, bitter finish, ok but not great.

A clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of mild sweet grainy malt, honey, belgian yeast. Taste of sweet strong pale malt, honey, belgian yeast.

The tripel in this mass-market-oriented Ostend beer project, from a longneck bottle bought at the Carrefour of the Groene Vallei in Ghent. Quite a violent gusher, spouting out of the bottle during opening - and with the carbon dioxide badly 'bound' into the beer, forming only a loose and rather thin, quickly opening, off-white ring of foam which then dissolves into almost nothing, over a hazy apricot blonde beer with beige tinge and dots of proteins floating around here and there. Rather weak aroma of dried apricot, damp kitchen towel, soggy Graham crackers, coriander seed, raw potatoes, old turnips, unripe pear, honey, field flowers, rainwater. Sweetish onset, estery peach, light banana and pear notes, sharpish effervescence (like a hundred micro needles piercing the tongue) and lean mouthfeel; soggy white bread with notes of crackers in the middle, some honeyish residual sweetness on top and retronasal coriander seed - but also a strong effect of ferrous water or rainwater (I was almost going to say seawater, considering where it comes from, but there is no saltiness). Floral hop bitterness in the end, blending in with the fruitiness and residual sweetness, before a somewhat astringent, not too well hidden 'jenever'-like alcohol effect shows up, scorching away the flavours - but then I had worse of this in other tripels, admittedly. Granted, the basic flavours are balanced and represent what the average Belgian consumer expects from a tripel - so pure flavour-wise, this is not even the worst I had in this overexposed style, but the gushing, the lack of head retention and those odd rainwater effects cannot have been intentional; if these technical issues are solved, then what you get is a perfectly acceptable, if stereotypical Belgian tripel for the masses, nothing more, nothing less.

Bottle from Dranken Vandewoude and drunk on a campsite with Nelson. Clear deep gold amber colour lasting thick cream head. Straight up syrupy strong Belgi!n blond. nothing with too much character. its got some strength to if from abv. Some golden syrup malt some peppery spicy hop finish. not awful but very standard. drinkable enough.

33cl bottle from Spar Oostende. F: big, white, average retention. C: deep gold, hazy. A: a lot of fruity esters, apricot, a lot of banana, floral, honey, spicy, yeasty. T: full malty base, apricot, honey, yeasty, banana, floral, dry on the palate, bio version so bit raw feeling, medium to high carbonation, good, enjoyed.

Golden colour, white foam. Malty, estery, notes of banana, some yeastiness. Well balanced and good tripel. Very enjoyable.

On-tap in the Bier Paleis, Brugge; 3rd Feb 2020. Hazy golden amber body, white crown on top. The nose was a fruity, yeasty cocktail and the taste followed along with the same idea, banana and sweet apricots being the two main fruits I picked up. Interesting.