Frisian tripel in Belgian style, thanks Craftmember for this anniversary present! 'Brugse kant' kind of lacing around the edge, medium thick, egg-white, regularly shaped head gradually showing gaps here and there, atop a lightly hazy straw blonde beer with warmer golden hue, misty and deeper ochre-ish with sediment added. Aroma of banana mush, bubblegum, dried out yellow raisins, industrial honey, powder sugar, freshly cut grass, old blankets and a touch of freshly ironed T-shirt, old wrinkled pears, dust, baker's yeast and plaster, coriander seed, young 'jenever', candied pineapple, sugared camomile tea, hand soap, potato mash, steamed turnip, vague cauliflower. Fruity, crisp onset, lots of banana-flavouring isoamylacetate, candy apple, pineapple and a hint of ripe yellow plum, residual white candi sugar syrup but acceptable for the style, sourish undertone, minerally carbonation effects, bit fizzy. Rounded, full, smooth mouthfeel; cereally, white bready malt sweetish body, grainy basis made a tad thicker and sweeter by residual white sugary sweetness, bit honeyish but thinly so. Underlying sourishness persists and seems to become a bit more outspoken in the finish, where a grassy, floral hop bitterishness is added, mildly bittering, its bittering properties highlighted by gin-like, warming alcohol while a lightly soapy coriander seed note develops. Spicy phenols appear too, but restrainedly so. Ends with quite a lot of 'jenever'-like booze though apparently manages to avoid downright wryness, while coriander seed, banana ester and grainy malt flavours linger at the back. If the aim was to make a sweetish-tilted, mediocre, simple and straightforward Belgian tripel: mission accomplished, though in a province with around fifteen active breweries and beer companies, I would be surprised if not one of them can manage to brew a tripel of greater proportions than this one, which basically reiterates a style of beer - even in the details - I probably had a few times too many in its (and my) home country. Technically well-performed, though, so in comparison with the abundancy of Belgian tripels populating the style's home country, this is not all bad. BrouwDOK should not focus too much on this, I believe: there are so many other, more rewarding styles to tackle which, this and other beers (The Dude!) taken into consideration, they should be able to pull off just fine.

schenkt oranje/gouden met witte kraag. aroma van sinaasappel, suiker, mout en gist, smaken zijn glad, zacht, wat fruitig, sinaasappel, redelijk gist, kruidig, lichte zeepsop smaken en mondgevoel, kardemom denk ik, redelijk zoet, wat dun en wat suikerachtig, matige body, normale co2.