Duo
Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle in Westmalle, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
7.46
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Duo is a golden-blonde Trappist beer from Westmalle, with an alcohol content of 7.2%. The beer combines the freshness of the Extra with the fruity body of the Tripel, resulting in a refined balance of hop and fruit aromas. The six different hop varieties lend the beer its distinctive freshness, while the fruity notes provide a soft finish.
The full-bodied, creamy taste and subtle hop bitterness give the beer a rich aftertaste, with a characterful finish that invites another sip.
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
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' .
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
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
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
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.
Bybeer (15899) ticked Duo from Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle 11 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Draught Thick creamy yellowish head, stable, over well-carbonated golden beer, lightly veiled. Very 'beery'-yeasty nose. Fresh pale malts. Bit mineral. Quite bitter - again very yeast-dominated. Partly pale, partly very lightly coloured malts. Very remote some restsugars - obviously still very young. Medium bodied, good carbonation lends a lightness to the overall impression. Certainly worth trying. But to be 100% honest - I prefer both an aged Tripel or a fresh Extra.
omhper (44752) reviewed Duo from Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle 11 months ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Keg at Pressklubben, Stockholm. Clear golden, mid sized head. Spicy, herbak hops and mild marzipan up front. Fairly dry with medium body and soft mouthfeel. Faint pear esters, grainy marzipan, spicy hay. Long bitter finish. Elegant, complex and classy.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
On tap at Hops, Crewe. Pours a cloudy golden yellow with minimal off-white head and some lacing. The aroma has continental hops, yeast and hints of spices. In the mouth it is slightly sweet and juicy with fairly high carbonation. Flavour has bananas, yeast and bubblegum with later addition of dried fruit and hints of spice, cloves and citrus. Finish is slightly sticky. This is decent.
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
On tap at CBC, Clerkenwell on 25th February 2025. Slightly hazy gold with dense collapsing white foam and full lacing. Spicy citrus aroma. Rich and spicy malts and citrus in-mouth and a finish of spiced fruits. Medium bodied with an engaging texture.
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