On tap at Bernie's Brugge. Hazy gold colour lasting white head. Yes i can see the tripel and the hoppy extra it's very drinkable not sure it needed to be made. It's not as intense as the tripel . Good hop bite on finish though.

Keg at Belgobaren, Stokholm. Light floral tripel aroma. Quite light, wee colour. Taste is spot on and just what you would expect and want from this 60-40 blend. Finnish is just what you would want. Solid beer.

Keg at The Marine Hotel, Stonehaven. It pours lightly hazy muddy brown with a small white head. The aroma is sweet, ripe, green banana, banana split, hearty bread, warming spice, clove rock and peppery spice. The taste is dry, bitter - sweet, warming spice, peppery, clove rock, warming booze, bread, biscuit, touch of cake, fragrant, floral vibes and juniper with a drying finish. Average carbonation and body. Perhaps not in top condition, would like more lively carbonation. Decent nonetheless.

Pours blonde. Medium stable white head. Scent is light, mild banana. Taste is light , elegant, typical westmalle banana yeast - quite loudly so. Finer maltyness, less heavy on the palate. Easy drinker. Perfect as a 'summer triple' .

keg at triple b...golden ...thin white lacing ...soft sweet floral yeasty fruit ..soft bready fruit ..light bitter fruit ..soft soapy bresdy fruit ..long bitter

A new Westmalle trappist does not come around every day - in fact this happens as good as never, so their accouncement of this Duo hitting the market a couple of weeks ago came as a huge suprise to me. It does depend on what one considers to be "new", though, as this Duo, only available from tap and only temporarily, is in fact just a blend of Westmalle Tripel (often quoted as the archetype of its genre) and Westmalle Extra (the ''enkel' formerly reserved for private use, but since four years more widely available). Nonetheless this is something I just had to have, in my case at Trappistenhuis in Ghent. Thanks Jo! Snow white, moussey, medium thick, stable, tighty membrane-lacing head, misty warm apricot-golden robe with somewhat greenish tinge. Aroma of halfripe banana, green pear, fresh dough, soggy white bread, clove, touch grass, unripe peach, hints of old potatoes, rainwater, raw mussels, molten butter and green celery. Fruity onset, quite some banana but not in a sweet-bubblegummy way - in fact, comparable with very young Westmalle Tripel, or indeed the Extra; grean pear, unripe peach, with prickly, minerally carbonation and smooth, supple body. Streamlined, 'mellow' pale maltiness in the middle, bready and doughy, with a very light biscuity touch, under a phenolic clove-like scent and moving into mildly earthy, floral hops providing a very gradually increasing, balancing bitterness, thus establishing a very balanced, long, satisfying finish, with some of that sweetish fruitiness (especially the not entirely ripe banana) lingering. Indeed holding the middle between Tripel and Extra in more than one sense, ABV-wise and flavour-wise, but still a bit more than its two parts; comparing this with a 'cocktail' of bottled Tripel and Extra would prove interesting I guess, because in this young, tapped form, it does feel very smooth and easygoing. Thoroughly Westmalle though - and I still love the brand, with which I have been overly familiar for most of my life even before I began to consume beer myself, to this day.