Den Beversen Tripel
Stanium in Beveren, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.65
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Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Den Beversen Tripel from Stanium 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Very good, dense, just off-white head. White candi sugar; very, very lightly smoked, green herbs, dry leaves but generally smelling very sweet. Dry, pretty alcoholic, almost boozy. Certainly there is white candi sugar and a huge amount of (rest)sugars and sweetness. There is a spicy bitterness, indifferent hops, but those do not beat the overwhelming sugary sweetness. Banana flavour. Inevitably rather sticky, even almost cloying. Good carbonation. In the aftertaste, there is an irritating metallic, almost coppery flavour. Just a bit more fermenting out, yes? Pale tripel being traditionally very attenuated...
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Den Beversen Tripel from Stanium 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The small city of Beveren, located in my home region, thought it deserved its own tripel – or at least a few members of the local beer-drinking community thought so. Old and worn-out as this 20th-century idea may be, at least they have it physically brewed in Beveren itself and not in some commissioned brewery in another town or even province (as happens regularly in this kind of cases). Thick, snow white, membrane-lacing, uneven-bubbled, stable head on a misty straw blonde beer with olive-greenish tinge, remarkably pale for a tripel in fact and looking more like a witbier. Aroma of coriander and a whole lot of it, banana peel, withering grass, fresh chamomile, oxidized green apple slices, old dough, hints of pear, honey, cream, a touch of dill, apricot. Fruity onset, sweetish but in a lean and slender way and nowhere too much, fizzy carbonation, hints of pear, green banana and Granny Smith apple; supple, slick, slender and smooth body, a bit soapy early on; doughy and cereally pale malt sweetishness with that soapy effect increasing towards the finish – clearly the result of an overdose of coriander seed, which gains a dominant position in the end. Residual sugariness remains fortunately limited, floral and withered-grassy hop bitterness shows up late but pleasantly lingers at the back and the alcohol, though noticeable as a ‘jenever’-ish accent, remains altogether quite well hidden. Overcoriandered for me, but at the same time a slender, (dangerously) easily drinkable and somewhat distinct tripel, different from the sweet and boozy cliché I was expecting.