7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

330 ml bottle. Pours a cloudy brownish amber with full head. Aromas of creamy banana, dull fruity eaters, doughy malts and candied citrus. Flavors follow same with additional oak, stoned fruit and mellow scotch. Creamy and malty. A good big triple BA.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle courtesy of Bram - many thanks! Hazy dark orange, huge, frothy, white head. Aroma of ripe red apple, pear, banana, honey, marmalade, sweet whisky, wet pepper, wood, vanilla. Taste has sweet red apple, pear & plum, spicy clove note over a honeyish, bread-doughy malt base that is slightly sugary with a hint of vanilla. Floral hoppy finish, phenolic, lingering (over)ripe fruits, wood and boozy whisky alcohol. Full body, creamy texture, fizzy carbonation. The whisky works well here, but the whole is a bit too 'coarse' to make for a nice sipping experience. The Genever version was better, Bram!

7.5

@Brouwers in het bos 2022

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

A murky and golden beer. Aroma has fruitness, dried apricot, some whiskey. Taste is similar than aroma, fruitness, also fresh dried fruits, whiskey. Medium bodied. Good beer, whiskey is there quite strongly, but it's not too dominating.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Dark yellow colour with massive foaming head. It's a strong tasting Tripel. Sweet and slightly spicy base beer intensified by the whisky that adds a pleasant boozy warmth.

7

LCI BAB... slightly peated triple... Nice... good idea. Adds some character. Balanced.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

One of two Rik & Raf variations, aged on whisky barrels (the other on 'jenever' barrels), steinie bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Slow gusher, so to be opened carefully and with enough time and patience. Mousy, audibly crackling, off-white, uneven- and large-bubbled, hardly lacing, breaking head on a misty peach blonde beer with pale orangey tinge, even a tad brownish with sediment, indicating onsetting oxidation. Aroma of sugared apple juice, powder sugar, banana liqueur (Pisang Ambon), sugar loaf, clear wet oak wood including a vanilla-like scent, non-peated whisky, honey, dry cookies, varnish, ripe pear or pear jam, marzipan (quite pronounced even), light sweaty hint, clove, cooked potato, pineapple, light sweet oxidation notes. Sweet onset as expected though not too cloying, very fruity with hints of ripe banana, ripe pear, pineapple and sweet red apple, very spritzy carbonation fizzing away in the mouth (a bit much so), full and smooth body; sugar- or brioche-bready malt core, disturbed a bit by the fizzy and minerally effects of the strong effervescence, carrying a load of residual honeyish sugariness on top that eventually does stick to the teeth a little bit. Fruity sweetness and an underlying sourish touch further accompany this malt and sugar sweet body to a warming finish, where the vanilla-like effect of the oak wood comes up retronasally, along with a light tannic effect - but more astringency obviously comes from the booze itself, clearly positioned as a sweet single malt whisky flavour, the sweetness enhanced by the residual sugariness of the actual beer. Hops do provide some late but very soft bitterness, while oxidation becomes very obvious in the end retronasally - maybe just a tad too obvious. I guess the bottle is already a bit past its prime and the overcarbonation and overt sweetness are not really my cup of tea, but I have to admit that for a tripel, this is an interesting 'bière de dégustation', somewhat reminiscent of the barrel aged Oude Caert tripel variations from the Antwerp region, but with a much clearer barrel (and booze) profile. Tripel may not be the most suitable genre to age on whisky barrels, too bad there is not brandy barrel aged version yet as I think that would work a bit better; but who knows, maybe BramBrass will one day come up with that as well.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Deep amber colour, white foam. Nose of sweet malts, stone fruit, some apple, honey. Well balanced. Nice whisky finish. Very nice BA tripel.