Ceci n'est pas une Triple
't Hofbrouwerijke in Beerzel, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.66
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oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Ceci n'est pas une Triple from 't Hofbrouwerijke 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. Amber colour with a small slightly off-white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, some spices and mild herbal tones. Flavour is peachy, some yeast, mild bananas with mild herbal and lemongrassy tones.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Golden color, hazy. Orange and floral notes in the aroma. Fairly dry, floral malty flavor with soft orange notes. Slightly alcoholic. Fairly well made and pleasant tripel.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Non, ceci n'est pas une triple. Par contre je ne suis pas certain de pouvoir vous dire de quoi il s'agit! Une certitude, nous sommes sur une bière présentant de nombreux déséquilibres, avec notamment une acidité marquée et un alcool ne jouant pas correctement son rôle et des arômes appréciables, sans plus. En verre, rien d'extraordinaire, blond orangé (EBC aux alentours de 25) voilé et mousse blanche nappant tout juste la surface. le nez est acceptable, sur une alliance houblon /alcool est des arômes de miel, de pomme, de poire et de coriandre. C'est à la dégustation que les choses se compliquent. L'attaque présente de suite une petite acidité ne permettant pas aux arômes fruités, de pain et de coriandre de s'exprimer correctement. Et s'il s'agit plutôt d'une présence acidulée à l'attaque, la deuxième bouche devient franchement acide avec de surcroît un alcool mal maîtrisé qui commence à se faire ressentir. L'arrière bouche plus équilibrée permet de percevoir davantage la petite amertume accompagnée d'arômes de pain et de coriandre. Avec une troisième bouche linéaire, nous passons de fait directement au final, plutôt correct en longueur mais où l'alcool devient trop présent avec des arômes épicés. C'était pourtant écrit sur l'étiquette : Ceci n'est pas une Triple.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
750ml bottle. Barely clear, dark copper colour with small to average, frothy to creamy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, off-white to beige head. Slightly phenolic, fruity and minimally bready aroma, grassy hoppy overtones, notes of dried apricot, a honey touch. Taste is slightly sweet fruity, notes of apricot, dried apricot, a touch of honey, slightly bitter, grassy-spicy hoppy counterweight; refreshing, fine but effective carbonation successfully bridles the sweetness; minimally sticky palate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
My second in this series of "Ceci n’est pas une...", the names of which are inspired by Belgian surrealism. From a 75 cl bottle with cork and muselet. Lots of pressure on the cork upon opening, resulting in a big, foamy, frothy, attractively cobweb-lacing, irregular but dense, pale yellowish white head over a cloudy peach blonde beer. Rather weakish aroma of red apple peel, pineapple, coriander seed, honey, green plum, clear banana ester, young cheese, cream, orange flesh, gooseberry, white bread, grass, hints of flowers, chives, paper and wodka; bit phenolic too (glue!). Taste kicks off with lots of fruity esters, crisp, subduedly sweetish with a sourish touch, unripe stonefruit, green apple, apricot and gooseberries, fairly strong carbo, yeasty middle phase with spicy hints over a soft, bready and very lightly honeyish malt sweetness, earthy hop bitterness coming in around the middle of the palate and strengthening in the end but remaining basic and bittering for balance with little aromatic features, sourish accent from the beginning persists as well, along with juicy bready malts, lightly powdery yeast and a clear gin- or wodka-like, warming alcohol presence, just a little bit astringent on the root of the tongue; mouthfeel is full and supple as well as a little bit oily, the latter probably resulting from a drying coriander presence - something I picked up only after a while, for the simple reason this spice is used so profusely in Belgian ales I almost begin to take it for granted. This is a tripel alright - the name is clearly ironic - and a fairly refreshing one, but quite stereotypical. More sourish - adding drought - than the average tripel perhaps, but otherwise nothing special, if you ask me. I’ll try the third one (the saison) later but for now: decent tripel, fairly typical for the style and in that sense a good introduction to it, but perhaps lacking some bigger, sweeter ’maltiness’.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Ceci n'est pas une Triple from 't Hofbrouwerijke 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ weekly tasting shared with Niilstrong. Slightly unclear yellow color, average sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, lightly hops, some fruitpeel, yellow fruits (no banana though!). Decent body, firm carbonation. Not a standard Tripel for sure, but worth a try. Not bad at all.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle Pours unclear blonde . Good white foam , that fades fast . Smell is grainy, slightly sweet . Some bitter aspects . Bit of yeast shining trough . interesting . Taste is sharp grains , with its natural sweetness , and a bitter aspect. In the early aftertaste, the Yeast shines trough and build up towards the later aftertaste ( typical Belgian yeast . Some banana flavours even ) Overall , well made . Has some aspects of a saison ( tastewise ) - which is less my thing - but its a nice beer nevertheless . refreshing , and easy drinkable ( thnx to a not to high carbo , unlike many other tripels ) Nothing to seek out, nothing to avoid . An interesting tripel
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 750ml. @ home on the terrace. [ As ’t Hofbrouwerijke Ceci n’est pas une Triple ].Clear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, fruity, pale malt, light to moderate hoppy, flowers, moderate yeasty, sweet fruit. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, sweet fruit, riped fruit. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20140624]