A slightly hazy deep golden beer with a white head. Aroma of strong riped fruits,, yeast. Taste of strong riped fruits, caramel, raisins, boozy dark malt

Bottle at home. Clear dark golden color, huge sized a bit bubbly white head. Aroma and flavor are malts, lightly herbal, a distant fruity notes, pleasantly sweetish and bitter at the same time. Very solid beer.

33cl bottle. This beer is now sold under the label of Enigma, who acquired Bastion. Pours dark blonde, scarcely transparent, with fine white foam. Aroma is malty and herbaceous. Body is average, with good carbonation. Taste is medium bitter, with just a little sweetness behind. Final is average.

Light hazy blond colour, white foam. Typical tripel, light sweet, a bit citrussy, fruity notes with herbal finish.

Bottle from Brouwland, of all places, thnx to Sam ! Pours a clear, medium darkened golden blonde. Medium large white head with long stability, and a medium creamy texture. Scent is Belgian yeast (banana, but fairly mild) fresh maltyness that are simply lovely, and just a hint of what I s'pose are continental hops (bit earthy) . Fresh and in balance, which already lifts it up above most tripels. Taste is quite bitter, ans fresh. Tad herbal ( hops, but perhaps some spices as well ?) yeastyness is far more intense on the esters here, making the finish not nearly as fresh as expected, to my dissapointement. Farily high carbonation (to High for me, but that's what Belgians like) . Bit too sticky on the finish (esters) and not as malty as the scent gave away.

New client brewery in the beautiful town of Diest in the Kempen region, established by two local brewers with the intention of not only honouring the citadel of Diest and its history, but eventually erecting a brewery there; until that dream is realized, the beers are brewed at Craywinckelhof. The range so far comprises this tripel, a strong blonde ale called Ravelijn and a coffee stout. Medium sized but thinning and eventually dissolving, fizzing, off-white, relatively large-bubbled and loosely knit head, opening in the middle; initially lightly hazy, pure straw blonde robe with deeper golden tinge and lively sparkling, misty with sediment. Aroma of chewing gum, banana peel, white soap, old potatoes, straw, hint of green apple, wodka, cooked parsnip, drying garden plants, clover flowers, cold 'courgette' soup, green birch tree leaf and - alas - a faint but to me unavoidable whiff of DMS (cooked Brussels sprouts of two days old). Rounded onset, fruity but rather restrainedly so (for a tripel) with notes of green banana, unripe apricot and hard pear, sweetish but again restrainedly so, fizzily carbonated with full, smooth body; some minerally elements linger alongside a white-bready, bit 'fluffy' maltiness, slight bubblegummy notes appearing on its edges but not disturbingly so. Ends in a warming, gently drying finish with a floral hop quality to it, mildly bittering, and a dash of the old coriander seed soapiness; wodka-like alcohol is certainly there, but does not become astringent and keeps itself well-contained in spite of the considerable warmth it offers. Green-fruity and leaf-like aspects linger but soft, subduedly sweetish pale malt breadiness remains the core flavour. On the drier side of the tripel spectrum, which is a plus for me, but otherwise quite simplistic and one-dimensional; it is difficult not to get bored after a few sips, but I admittedly had too many tripels already in my beer drinking career so I guess I am suffering from a certain personal 'burnout' effect in this genre... I do hope their stout is a bit more ambitious because this country could do with some more good stouts - and far less tripels.