Bottle 300ml. [ As Apeldoornse Bierbrouwerij De Vlijt Veluwse Schavuyt Tripel ].Clear medium yellow - amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, caramel, fruity malt, moderate yeasty, fruity yeast, belgium yeast. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, candy, sweet yeast, fruity malt, belgium yeast. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20160422]

Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, grass, straw, yeast and fruits.

Bottle @ Aarhus tasting. Clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity and yeasty. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet finish. 220416

33cl Bottle from Deen, thanks Joost! Brewed for De Vlijt, not at De Vlijt, as Veluwse Schavuyt, according to the label. Murky amber colour, off-white head. Aroma of sweet malts, caramel, yeast. Flavour is sweet, malty, yeasty, caramel, light fruity, nutty, light bitter finish. Light bodied. OK.

33cl Bottle from Deen, thanks Joost! Hazy golden amber colour, white head. Aroma of toast, hint of caramel, light floral sweetness, some yellow fruit. Flavour is medium sweet, floral, light citrus, yellow fruit, toast, nuts, bitter finish. Light bodied. Decent.

One of the more recent additions to this range apparently, bottle from the Deen supermarket in Lelystad. Medium thick, stable, lacing, off-white head dissolving a bit in the middle after a few minutes; clear orange golden blonde colour with quite lively fizz, becoming lightly hazy as the bottle progresses. DMTS rules the nose: a strong odour of melted rubber and burning plastic, along with unmistakable DMS (cooked cauliflower), strong glueish phenols and very strongly ’jenever’-like alcohol cover less offensive hints of industrial caramel, bitter honey, brown bread crust, burnt sugar, dried banana, roasted peanuts, chicken spices, canned apricot, breakfast cereals, fermenting nettles, white pepper, overripe papaja. Soft and restrainedly fruity onset, white candi sugar sweetness accentuating hints of canned apricot, red apple peel and some orange, with a basic sourishness behind it; carbo remains soft, mouthfeel is slick and smooth, a bit resinous but on the thin side as well. Caramelly malt sweetness quickly turns into a bitterish toastedness, accompanied by simple, late grassy hop bitterness in the end, quite effective in its attempts to save the day, but not standing any chance against the retronasal nail polish phenols and especially the alcohol, which is palpable almost from the start, lending this beer a strong young ’jenever’-like flavour which becomes extremely tiring and bothersome, if not wry in the finish. Feels quite industrial even, the simplest and least appealing form in which the tripel style can appear; the burnt sugar bitterness keeps lingering more than a noble hop bitterness and the alcohol is very badly hidden even if this beer carries only 7.5% ABV which is on the lighter side for a tripel. As pleasantly surprised I was by their IPA, this is a big disappointment. Underachieving even for a run-of-the-mill tripel which it apparently aims to be.

Tap @Het Arendsnest, Amsterdam. Hazy medium amber colour, good frothy off-white head, good retention and lacing. Aroma is malty, fruity, caramel, grass, hint of honey. Taste is medium sweet and bitter, fruity, toffee, with average duration, aftertaste bittersweet, herbal notes in the finish, medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, decent amber.

Bottle from a Deen supermarket in Lelystad. Lightly lacing, irregularly shaped, cream white, moussy head over a misty deep peach blonde beer with brownish-amberish hue. Aroma of dried orange peel, cloves, white pepper, curry spices, papaja, cardboard, earthy turnip or beetroot, old cookies, dusty dried flowers, red apple, unripe peach, nutmeg, hay, mouldy lemon, bitter honey. Soft fruity onset of unripe peach, redcurrant and red apple, medium carbo, dryish and softly sourish from the start with just a tad of sweetishness, bit ’dusty’ feeling which increases a bit towards the finish, spicy phenols accompanying the whole palate over a backbone of bready, very lightly toasted malts; finish is yeasty and phenolic as well as drying hoppy in a very earthy, leafy, dried spice kind of way, with floral and light citrus peel like aromatic aspects. The yeastiness, visibly apparent from the start, adds to the earthy impression but it does not become thoroughly ’dirty’. Quaffable, but not really impressive in any aspect, just another Belgian style blonde.