Brown 33cl dumpy bottle, best before Sept 2011, drank during one of my ’random beer reviewing evenings’ in April 2011. This beer had been sat untouched for over a week in my chilling fridge, yet on picking it up you could clearly see sediment milling about towards the bottom of the bottle. On opening, the beer came up to meet me, the Westmalle chalice caught all the beer and a lovely white blanket of foaming bubbles sat on top of the amber coloured beer. Carbonisation bubbles rising through the beer all the time, ensuring the sediment lumps which lept into the glass floated around for a long time before settling down a bit. The beer had a sweet treacle smell, molasses and nothing else. The taste: alcohol front, back and sides, some yeast presence (had to be with so many floaters), otherwise a lot of nothing. This is a headache waiting to happen. Far too sweet and not enough body to hide the alcohol or the sweetness, a very poor Belgian Tripel!