6.9

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

Bottle at Brasserie Verschueren, Brussels on 30th January 2025. Hazy pale amber with lasting white foam and full lacing. Citrus hops and some yeastiness in aroma. Intense spicy citrus hoppiness in-mouth with nutty malts. Maltiness prevails, shaping a finish blended with herby grasses. Full bodied with a smooth mouthfeel.

8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle with Matthijs, at the Verschueren Cafe in Brussels, 18th November 24. Pours a golden beer, clear, aroma is fresh, grassy, yeast. Taste is classic De La Senne, hop forward modern Tripel, fresh grass, bitter, some sweetness, mellow and very drinkable. Delicious.

8

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

On tap at Brasserie Verschueren. Cloudy golden with large white head. Hoppy, bit yeasty, floral, bit spicy, estery, nice bitter finish. Smooth texture. Great tripel.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Flaska från Etre Gourmete. Gyllengul disig vätska med högt stabilt kritvitt skum. Doft av örter, gräs, hö, kryddor och säd. Mjuk och len och samtidigt riktigt torr och rejält besk. Smak som doften men med en fruktig sötma med lite nektarkaraktär som behövs för att balansera smakbilden men samtidigt inte riktigt gifter sig. Beskan är nästan brutal för stilen, som en riktigt bitter snaps. Maffigt men kanske lite över gränsen och inte så harmonisk men riktigt gott iaf.

6

Hazy, hoppy, fruity. Not too carbonated, manageable head. Floral citrus, some malty sweetness. Nice.

8.8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Etre. Really lovely looking, hazed, glowing gold, with a super dense, fully lacing, lasting, leggy bright white head. Not sure a beer could look better. Nose has lemony citrus. Banana ice cream. Creamy malt. Soft esters. Taste has a slightly spicy, biscuit sweetness. Turns herbal and citrus peel bitter. Smooth and creamy mouthfeel. Soft, massaging carbonation. Moderate bitterness to finish. Whoa.

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle @ Belgium. Pours hazy deep Golden with a White creamy lasting head. Amazing flavor and aroma. Yeast, mandarin, bread and grassy hops with a chalky rustic edge to the yeast. Super smooth and crisp. Fantastic. Bottled March 2020.

7.2

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

The house beer of Brasserie Verschueren in Saint-Gilles (Brussels), made especially for them by De la Senne, seemingly to a recipe that is close to that of their own Jambes-de-Bois, but not quite the same. Many thanks again to tderoeck for the bottle - now close to two years old, and with very old-fashioned label. Opens with a hiss, but no gushing. Thick and frothy, irregularly lacing, even-bubbled, eggshell-white, stable head on a misty deep 'old gold' coloured beer with ochre-ish hue and strings of lively sparkling here and there. Aroma of halfripe banana, green apple, distant touch sour grape even, white bread, cold potato mash, paraffin, hard pear, straw, brown soap or indeed coriander seed, plaster, gin, unripe pineapple, old dried out lemon peel, vague whiffs of white pepper, camphor, 'pistolets' and camomile. Sweetish onset but restrainedly so, hints of banana, pear and apricot, light sourish undertone briefly accentuated by very lively but - for this style - fitting and actually quite 'refined' carbonation, full, bit fluffy yet smooth, albeit somewhat soapy body. Bread-crusty, cereally and bit doughy malt profile, dryish, with some fruity and spicy accents from the yeast, evolving into an earthy, floral hoppiness that provides quite a long-lasting, gently but persistently drying and quenching bitterness over an already relatively dry bready malt profile; some green fruit and white pepper aspects linger in a finish still confidently bittered by the hops, mildly spiced by soapy coriander seed and warmed by a gin-like alcohol glow. Like Jambes-de-Bois, which - from memory - seems eerily close to this one, a dry, hoppy tripel indeed, exactly the kind of tripel one expects from this brewery, positioned against the excess supply of overly sweet tripels flooding the Belgian market. A bit predictable perhaps - this profile is exactly what I had in mind before opening the bottle - but technically well done, and after two years of aging, still in the prime of its life, though I imagine the hops having been more aromatically pungent and citric when this was still young (as reflected in some of the ratings below).

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Sweet, light spice, Senne hoppiness but full bodied. Bit doughy. Maybe hint of coconut.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty finish.