21/VIII/21 - 33cl bottle @ Gents Bierfestival (Gent), BB: n/a (2021-943)

Pretty cloudy orange beer, big creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: spicy, herbal, some orange peel, bit oxidized, sweet impression, dusty, coriander notes. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sweet, malty, caramel, spicy, oxidized, orange peel, sweet malts, oranges, bit oxidized. Aftertaste: malty, grains, bit sweet, oxidized, lots of coriander, orange peel.

Tripel made for the eponymous collective of pork producers in Nevele (East-Flanders), launched in 2018 to present to business partners but now available for a larger audience (since last year, when production also moved from Bryggja to Eutropius and the traditional label was replaced by a sleeve). Egg-white, foamy, inches thick, cobweb-lacing, rocky head on a misty apricot blonde beer with slowly moving bubbles throughout. Aroma of ripe banana, old dough, coriander seed, a note of DMS (overcooked broccoli), red apple, green pear, honey, raw potato juice, overripe peaches, iron, dried thyme, soap, pineapple. Sweet and fruity onset, hinting at banana, peach and ripe pineapple, fizzily carbonated, residual sugary sweetness honeyishly lingering over a full, bit glueish and soapy, slick pale malt body, eventually clearly (over)coriandered which at least partially accounts for the soapy aspect, together with the use of malted wheat of course. The DMS returns retronasally byt not to the point that it ruins everything; a mild floral hop touch appears but provides little bitterness – in fact more bitterness comes from ‘jenever’-ish alcohol, which is remarkably badly hidden, considering the ABV (according to the label) is only 7,5% (no alcohol should be noticeable at all). Sweet cliché tripel (or blonde – at 7.5% ABV I guess we are at the tipping point from one to the other), structurally not very well made and even a bit flawed if the DMS is to be taken into account. My guess is that Bryggja probably did a better job at this beer previously than Eutropius does now, but I would have to able to taste them side by side in order tio judge that.

Clear blond colour, white foam. Nose of citurs, coriander, green apple, some spices. Taste is sweet, citrussy, a bit spicy.

Accidental rerate, bottle from Beers@Moviefun. Impressions of apple peel, apricot jam, banana, iron, honey, white sugar. Sweet apricot & banana in taste, sugary and honeyish maltiness, spicy phenols. Floral hoppy finish, yeasty with ripe fruit. Quite disappointing now (totally missed out on any surprising tobacco accent).

Original rating: 12/12/2020. 8/7/7/6/7=7.0. Bottle from the supermarket. Hazy ochre, thick, foamy, white head. Aroma of ripe apricot, pear, apple peel, bread dough, honey, wet pepper, vague tobacco. Taste has sweet estery apricot, banana & pear, bitter apple peel, yeasty-spicy accents over bready malts. Spicy, grassy hoppy finish, phenols mixing with ripe fruit, hint of tobacco & warming jenever alcohol. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Goes well with meat, okay.