Orange BA Tripel

Verduyn Bier in Marke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Brewed at/by: De Meester
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular

Score

6.86

ABV: 8.0%

IBU: -

Ticks: 3

This Belgian-style tripel is brewed with lemon peel, coriander and other spices, giving it a citrusy and spicy character. But what makes it truly special is the aging process: after fermentation, the beer is transferred to Kentucky Bourbon and Whiskey barrels, where it rests for four months. The result is a complex and smooth beer with notes of vanilla, oak, caramel and whiskey. To add a more subtle aroma and flavor, the beer is also dry hopped with Sabro, a hop variety that imparts tropical and coconut notes. The alcohol content is 8%

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7.4

Alengrin (11609) reviewed Orange BA Tripel from Verduyn Bier 1 year ago

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

Barrel-aged edition of Verduyn’s tripel, which I coincidentally had for the first time a month or so ago; thanks to Bart A. for sharing. Egg-white, frothy and moussey, membrane-lacing, stable head on a misty peach blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of ripe peach, apple sauce even, orange juice, coriander seed, indeed vanillin-breathing oak wood, canned pineapple, calvados, banana mush, brioche bread, vague marzipan. Sweet onset, sugary even but in a smooth and ‘thin’ kind of way, quite elegant with colourful fruitiness reminiscent of peach, pineapple, ripe apricot and banana, fizzily carbonated (a bit too harshly so in fact, even for a tripel) with smooth, brioche-bready, sweetish, soft core, honeyish sugariness on top, a dash of coriander seed and elegant vanillin-adding oak with only soft tannic effects. Orange, pineapple and a bit of coriander linger, in an almost desserty, fruit cocktail-like finish. Tripels are one of the most popular genres in Belgium yet very rarely innovated, but this one does add a meaningful layer of originality to this worn-out formula, by polishing an already sweet and vividly fruity example of the style into something almost desserty – and yet not so sweet that it becomes obnoxious or sticky. Well done.

Tried on 18 Dec 2024 at 19:28

6.9

tderoeck (22711) reviewed Orange BA Tripel from Verduyn Bier 1 year ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

7/XII/24 - 33cl bottle @ the Big Bottles Tasting / Proevertjesdag (Oudenburg), BB: 25/V/28, L2305P318 (2024-1261) Thanks to Bart for sharing the bottle!

Little cloudy orange blond beer, small creamy white to light yellow head, unstable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: very yeasty, caramel, banana, malty, grains, some vanilla, phenols, esters, meh. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, spicy touch, very yeasty, some aniseed, more yeast, some citrus, sugary, banana, alcohol. Aftertaste: soft acidity, very yeasty, sweet touch, spicy, some coriander, meh. Not bad, but I’m not a big fan of B.A. Tripel beers.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Dec 2024 at 18:30

6.8

Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Orange BA Tripel from Verduyn Bier 2 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Good dense, irregular white head, stable, over orangey golden, hazy beer. Oranges, preserved orange, Bourbon, whisky, molded orangepeel. Almonds, bitter & sweet, perfumed. Preserved oranges. Here, I'd rather guess jenever than Bourbon. Wormwood, but not that bitter. Medium bodied at least, viscous, bit oily despite good carbonation. I don't particulary care for this perfumed overdose, the combination Bourbon and oranges (coriander) doesn't seem to work, even when the base beer seems OK. Txs to Maarten!

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jan 2024 at 09:17