Fles van de lokale Albert Heijn. Goudkleurig bier met stevige schuimkraag. Smaak is vrij zoet, kruidig en fruitig met iets van banaan, wat appel en honing. Gewoon een goede tripel wat mij betreft.

30cl bottle from Albert Heijn supermarket in Maasmechelen. F: medium, white, quick gone. C: gold, clear. A: banana, bready, spicy, apples, chewing gum. T: medium to full malty base, banana, apples, bready, spicy, honey, bit harsh bitterness, soft to medium carbonation, cheap and not real abbey beer, nothing really tasty here.

Clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of strong herbal pale malt, straw. Taste of sweet mild herbal wheat malt spices, yeast, honey.

Leicht alkoholischer, herb-würziger Beginn. Wenig würzig, der Alkohol bleibt erkennbar, wenig kräutrig. Mittellanger Abgang, unspannend. 8/7/7/7/9/7

Clear darker golden colour, moderate sized creamy ecru-ish white head; aroma of apricot jam, some tangerine, grainy and floral honey notes; taste is the sam with some hoppy bitterness and spicy-peppery aftertaste; not bad at all

Small, fast gone white head over coldhazed golden beer. Almonds, grains, white candi sugar; not very bold. Bit sweetish-liqueurish. Lightly bitterish flavour, coriander, white candi sugar. Faintly spicy, neutral main taste. Warming up, the very finish gets a bit sweeter, almondy character. Gives a thinnish impression, no doubt also due to the white candi attenuation. Quite neutral tripel, but generally speaking no faults. Again a product from the Swinkels/Ahold machinations.

As if we had not yet enough 'fake' abbey beer brands, here is a new one created by Swinckels and assigned to the Belgian Palm brewery they took over in 2016. Bottle from an Albert Heijn supermarket. Rocky, snow white, densely creamy and pillowy, thick, busily lacing head on a crystal clear beer with very pure and warm 'old golden' robe - liquid gold indeed, metallic-looking even, but pretty enough, with a column of visible sparkling rising up from the middle; remains clear till the last drop and is therefore certainly not refermented in the bottle, which I think makes this more of a 'strong golden ale' in the Belgian sense than a true tripel. Aroma of dried banana slices, chewing gum, industrial white bread, clove, freshly cut grass, young 'graanjenever', dried cut flowers, some vague raw potato and something notably plastic-like - in all, not very inviting. Sweetish onset, clean with bubblegummy effect and banana ester, very faint side notes of pear and peach perhaps, medium carbonation with minerally side notes around a very slick, rather thinnish (for ABV) body. Simple cereally pale maltiness with no depth at all in the middle, some clove-like phenols and a strong metallic aspect in the end; floral and grassy hop notes provide a late bitterness, but this is brutally taken over by a very 'jenever'-like astringency, with peppery and wry effect that lingers for a while. By that time, all the other flavours have vanished. I guess I should not have expected anything from old Bavaria in the way of even the simplest Belgian ales, but this is even worse than I thought, with very badly hidden alcohol, no depth or complexity at all, no bottle refermentation, no maltiness worth mentioning and annoying metallic effects. Most industrial 'tripel' I had in a long time - to that extent that I am even wondering if this is top-fermented at all and not just one of Bavaria's own strong pale lagers in disguise... 'Redundant' is the most friendly of conclusions I can draw here. I think I will pass for the rest of the series.

Bottle, 8.7%. Fruity aroma. Clear golden colour. Stable white head. The flavour is grainy and quite sweet. Good alcohol note

Bottle at home. Clear golden color, white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, sweetish grainy, a bit yeasty. Meh, not much to it really. Boring and not very pleasant imo.