33cl bottle from Delhaize in St. Vith, Belgium.
F: medium, egg-white, average retention.
C: amber, light hazy.
A: malty, caramel, some berries, banana, apples.
T: full malty base, light herbal, toast, some berries, bit banana, dry on the palate, medium carbonation, ok for the style, enjoyed.

Clear deep golden beer with a white head. Aroma of mid sweet strong pale malt, some honey. Taste of strong pale malt, straw, mid sweet malts, some herbs and honey.

Heller, leicht alkoholisch-getreidiger Beginn. Geringe Süße, trocken, langweilig. Geringe Bitterkeit, Nuancen von Koriander, insgesamt aber monoton. 9/7/8/7/5/7

Next to a tripel, this new beer company in the ‘Oost-Kantons’, the small part of eastern Belgium that speaks German, also has this ‘strong pale ale’ – one can wonder why. Also sampled at the Big Easy in Sankt-Vith, thanks Hinke for sharing. Medium thick, off-white, thinning but generally stable, regular head, misty orangey peach blonde robe. Aroma unfortunately marred by unmistakable H2S (sewer water, even rotting egg), next to old bread, peach, dried orange peel, very old honey, coriander seed, old cheese rind, clove, raw beetroot. Fruity onset but not too sweet, very strongly overcarbonated with harshly stinging carbon dioxide, slick cereally malt core with a touch of caramel at its sides, phenolic (clove) and ‘coriandery’ spiciness in the finish combined with floral hop bitterness, while residual honeyish sweetness lingers – making this beer end sweeter than the Tripel in this series, which was much more firmly hopped. Too bad for that awful H2S returning retronasally – and rendering it undrinkable to some of my companions, but given the general structure of this beer, I reckon it cannot be an impossible task to get rid of it and end up with, well, another tripel…