Belgian Style Tripel
Project Hop / Brasserie du Bon Temps in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Brewed at/by: Flashback Brewing Co.Belgian Style - Tripel Regular
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Score
6.98
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16oz @ Ryan's (thx for the beer!) shared with Farees.
Aroma: banana and clove, some flowers.
Taste: full-bodied, nice esters.
Overall: pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Poured from 473mL can. Clear blonde gold with white head. Feint belgian yeast and esters with just a hint of phenols, a bit of wheat and spices, slightly fruity character, okay.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
473mL can, pours a hazy golden orange with a medium white head. Nose doesn’t bring out an authentically tripel character – there’s some clove, maybe some banana, as advertised, but those are hefeweizen notes, so this already seems dubious given that the brewer advertises notes that do not characterize this as a typical tripel. I digress… beyond that, there’s light spicy yeast, and some low-level phenols (not exactly of the burnt rubber character). Flavour is very fruity, with lots of orange marmalade, some esters, a touch of vinous character almost, citrus, and some candi sugar. Well, this is anything but a classical tripel, but there’s definitely some nice flavour cohesion and even complexity here. Pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
473 ml can. Pours amber with moderate head. Aromas of soft belgian yeast, mineral water, bready malts and a little sulphur. Flavors of fruity esters dominating Belgian yeast, wine gums, candied citrus and bready malts. A nice iteration though more malty and sweet than I’d expect for the style.