Triple IPA
Totem in Evergem, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
IPA - Triple Regular|
Score
7.31
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mike_77 (15875) reviewed Triple IPA from Totem 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pale blond and hazy with thin head. Aroma and flavour have lots of lime zest. Leafy hops and a slightly soapy element which again points towards lime. Not too heavy despite the high alcohol.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Triple IPA from Totem 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours unclear yellow, smell is full, creamy hops, milder citrus. Taste is full, medium bitterness. Very malty, intense base. Not too sweet (unlike most other TIPA's) heavy hoparoma. Nice!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Triple IPA from Totem 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Triple or 'imperial' IPA as interpreted by Totem, now fully operational as a 'true' brewery just north of Ghent. From a can with characteristic new Totem design (stripes), but I cannot recall where I purchased it, could be a gift from the brewer himself - in which case: thanks once again, Klaas! Best before December next year. Membrane-lacing, egg-white, thinnish, small-bubbled and dense head breaking in the middle but retaining well around the edge and as scattered flat islands in the middle; hazy apricot blonde robe with vaguely ochre-ish tinge. Powerful bouquet of pomelo, overripe papaya, gin, strong 'diesel', pineapple slices from a can, spoiled onion, rambutan, Screwdriver, shallot frying in olive oil, leftover dough, plasticine, fried sweet apple, leek, fermenting pear juice, very vague but noticeable touch of coconut flesh from the Sabro. Sweetish-fruity onset, very juicy with notes of papaya, Zespri kiwi, starfruit and pineapple, a dash of mango perhaps, finely but enthusiastically tingling carbonation, full and oily mouthfeel; biscuit- and somewhat cake-doughy malt sweetness deeply soaked in tropical, sultry hoppiness, bringing back all the papaya, rambutan and pineapple, with a sweet fried apple-like edge to it. Ends very juicy, sweet but nowhere cloying, 'heavy' and boozy - with even a 'burning' sensation on the root of the tongue, coming more from hop burn than from alcohol, even if the latter is very pronounced in the finish as a heating, slightly astringent, gin-like factor. A powerful, boastful construction, as typifies 'triple IPA' (justly remaining unseparated from double IPA here), fully operating withing the NEIPA idiom even if the hops do provide some end bitterness along with the alcohol; that said, and having had this beer a few times before I made this rating based on the can I have at home, there is also something crude about it, with both a hop burn and an alcohol burn in the very last stage, making a juicy, sweet, tropical, sultry beer ending rather dry and astringent. The Sabro has been excellently and very cleverly used here as that typical coconut aspect lingers around in the end - so in spite of those two burns, which are by no means absent in the original American examples of NEDIPA, this creation does show considerable knowledge of contemporary New World hop varieties and how to use them. Impressive as such - though perhaps a bit too overpowering, even if this is an aspect one should reckon with when drinking any kind of IPA above 8% ABV, I guess. In any case an 'imperial NEIPA' pur sang, that is for sure.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Triple IPA from Totem 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can from Geers. Hazy ochre, thin, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of wet grass, pine resin, diesel, dank lychee, mango, ripe tangerine, peach, hashish. Taste has sweet mango, tangerine & lychee, very slightly citric, going over a deep and bitter layer of pine resin, grass & grapefruit with dank hashish in the back. Floral & resinous hoppy finish where the sweetness of ripe juicy fruits battles with bitter grapefruit peel and triple sec-like alcohol warms the throat, as well as a spicy hop burn. Medium to full body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Serious stuff. Juicy, dank & spicy.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Triple IPA from Totem 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Draught Small but stable yellowish head over cloudy orange beer. Mandarinepeel, other citrus and some herb, difficult to specify. Mandarine, citruspeel, dry-bitterish, like a dry powdery spice. Subtle jenever-like alcohol flavour. Does nowhere feels as 10%, let alone more. Dry finish throughout enjoying. Bit neutral for an IPA; booze is seriously hidden.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Triple IPA from Totem 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
4/VII/21 - sample on tap @ DOK bierfestival (Ghent), BB: n/a (2021-585) Thanks to the GBV-crew for sharing today’s beers!
Cloudy orange blond beer, small creamy irregular off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet and sugary, alcohol, lemony, lime. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very alcoholic, a bit fruity, some phenols, more alcohol, sweet, heavy, some vanilla. Aftertaste: weird, spicy, very alcoholic, phenols, soapy bitterness, more alcohol. Too heavy this one, don’t like it so much.