440ml can. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of caramel, spicy yeast esters, a little banana. Taste of prominent yeast esters, spicy, banana, sweet candi sugar and caramel malt, moderately sweet but sort of drying in the finish. Medium bodied.
Decent Belgo-style ale; better than the Dubbel version.

Cask at Smithfield, Derby. Pours golden yellow with a small foamy off-white head and good lacing. Yeasts are to the fore in the aroma, along with floral hops and hints of bubblegum. In the mouth it is on the cusp between bitter and sweet with a creamy (almost cloying) texture. Flavour has yeasts, continental hops and malts with increasing spiciness. Traces of alcoholic strength and barley sugar come later, leading to a slightly boozy finish. This is decent. Not quite as distinctive as yer actual Belgian Tripel – but it’s dangerously drinkable !