F: big, egg-white, good retention. C: gold, hazy. A: bit citrus, bit floral, tropical fruits, peach, bit yeasty, honey/herbal. T: malty, citrus, nice dry bitterness on the palate, bit floral, peach, bit dough, mango, bit herbal, yeast, medium body and carbonation, very good balanced, creamy mouthfeel, enjoyed, 33cl bottle from Bierwinkel De Hopduvel in Gent.

Bottle from Geers. Hazy blond colour, creamy white foam. Nose of tropical fruit, pineapple. Bitter and grassy beer. Dry, lemon peel. Very refreshing. Nice combo of Imperial IPA / tripel/ strong ale.

330 ml. bottle. BBF 10/11/16 (quite strict for a Belgian beer). Hazy bright sparkling golden, creamy faintly off-white head. Nose is big on BE yeast, sweet banana, yeasty sweetish bread, something faintly green bitter but BE yeast fluffy sweetness rains supreme. Taste is interesting fluffy big white bread, yeast but cleaner & fluffier than in the nose, faintly floral, almost fine pine needles behind the banana sweetness, BE yeast, low white pepper. Body is fluffy white bread & banana. Interesting beer, nose is quite excessive on the yeast, taste is yeast but very clean, fruit, low lemon, banana, bread, perfectly developed, hops are barely there with mainly white pepper, faint pine needles. Heavy bitterness from the description doesn’t add up but it feels like a wonderful display of BE yeast. As a Belgian Strong Ale this makes perfect sense but as a hoppy brew even in a De Ranke sense it doesn’t make much sense. I don’t get USA hops at all in here, I like it but less than the other Tartaruga beers so far, it is oddly off from its apparent intent.