Bottle. Pale golden color. Floral aroma with some orange notes. Sweetish, floral, slightly perfumed flavor with orange, peach and some alcohol. Decent, but not exciting.

F: big, white, good retention. C: gold, light hazy. A: malty, sweet orange, banana, spicy, honey, yeasty. T: malty, banana, orange peels, bit dry grassy on the palate, bit juniper alcohol, decent bitterness, honey, floral, medium body and higher carbonation, ok for the style, enjoyed, 33cl bottle (8,3% and 32 IBU) from Beerwulf webshop.

330mml. Bottle tasted on the 23/11/2018 at Groningen «The Netherlands». Light orange colour with a medium and good lasting white head. Aroma is malty, herbal and bready. Taste is the same, leading to a mefium malty finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Next one please!

Bottle @ friends' place. Deep golden color. Frothy white head. Aroma's: fruity, lemon, malty. Retronasal it's malty sweet and citrus fruity. Flavor is moderate malty sweet, light herbal. Medium bodied. Ligt bitter finish.

Flesje gedronken bij tasting Mitra Oirschot. Oranje-achtig bier. Weinig aroma. Smaak is hoppig en fruitig. Nasmaak is licht bitter.

Geproefd met Roelzie1986, Inoven en Benzai bij BX. Het is een oranje geel bier met een volle schuimkraag. Het heeft een moutige fruitige smaak.

Bottle from the Mitra shop in Lelystad. Apparently a beer company now brewing at 7 Deugden, but until four years ago a micro brewery in its own right; my second beer in this ’Saense’ series. Medium thick, egg-white head, quickly dissolving into thin islands of foam in the middle and a well-retaining, densely moussy edge; pure, ochre-hued ’old gold’ robe with a haze of yeast particles throughout. Aroma of cooked potato, banana and indeed bubblegum, wet hay, camomile, old cheese, ’jenever’, unripe pear, sweetbread, green apple peel, coriander seed, rhubarb, powder sugar, minerals, old cake, sourish peach, and a vague, but unmistakably clear, sulphuric presence of DMS (cooked white cabbage). Fruity onset, some sweet banana isoamylacetate but not exagerrated, hints of green pear, stewed rhubarb and raw pineapple, sweetishness mixed with some gooseberry-like sourishness, minerally carbo but fit for the style, smooth and full, lean, somewhat soapy mouthfeel, made softer by the oats and slicker by the wheats. Cereally and very lightly caramelly malt base, a bit bready even especially after adding the sediment, but with a sharper, slightly wry grainy edge too which I assume represent both the wheat and the oats; in the finish, a glow of white rum-like alcohol manifests itself, lending it a warming, but also lightly astringent effect initially, though this seems to be mitigated by an earthy, very slightly starch-like, bready yeastiness, some soapy coriander (but fortunately kept relatively subtle), and leafy, floral, soft hop bitterishness after the sediment has been added. The malt sweetness and even the sweet banana ester keep dominating as the beer goes down the throat. A bit too alcoholic even for a tripel, with this somewhat annoying white candi sugar and banana ester sweetness lingering at times when they should have already disappeared: I truly believed 7 Deugden, which has produced more than one decent beer, could have been capable of delivering a tripel true to the ultimate Westmalle standard - because beers like this usually cling to that even if there are already too many tripels around in the Netherlands and a lot more so in Belgium - but this one disappoints a bit. I probably had too many tripels already in my ’beer rating time’ but this does not add anything to the style at all, it merely positions itself on the sweeter side of the range, with a very - overly - boozy aftertaste to it; making things worse, it suffers from DMS, which I am extremely sensitive to. Point off for both the DMS and the badly hidden alcohol, even though otherwise it is still fairly decent from a purely technical point of view and I probably would have enjoyed it a lot more without those two major flaws.

4e Noordelijk Lentebieren Festival, Leeuwarden, 2016 schenkt helder gouden met lichte kraag. aroma van caramel, mout, gist, iets floraal, citrus, tropisch fruit, smaken zijn koriander, perzik, mout, kruidig, matig hop bitter, medium body, zwak tot normale co2. ok-ish.