Lacy yellowish head over hazy amber beer. Sweet, rosewater-like nose; just smells sticky! Taste is better: leafy, bready, like a German Dunkler Doppelbock. Finish is even dry. Medium to well-bodied, long, ever so slightly sticky feel and aftertaste, but not cloying. The nose made me fear the worst. The taste is actually quite OK. Belgian top-fermenting Doppelbock?Earlier Rating: 11/17/2010 Total Score: 3.7Beautiful foxy-chestnut coloured, clear beer with an amber-beige, huge head. Very bready/leafy/earthy sweet-sweetish nose, with some bananaester, smelling for all the world as a "Dunkler Bock" or "Dunkler Weizenbock". Spicy-strong flavoured, sweetish beer with lots of melanoidins, sweet & roasted malts, overripe banana and other grains. Finish has some faint bitterish, earthy notes, without losing its spiciness ane sweetness, caramelsyrup-like, if not cloying. Well-carbonated, rather well-bodied, alcoholwarming. Decent balance, decent beer. But IMO certainly not a French Bière de Garde, but a Dunkles Doppelweizenbock. Maybe top-fermented, but a Bock nonetheless.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Jessenhofke Brhambézebier (by Jessenhofke):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5

15/XI/12 - 75cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: XI/13 (2012-1274)

Little cloudy orange to pink beer, big solid creamy head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, red forest fruits, bit sweet. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: very fruity start, red forest fruits, raspberries, other fruits, very fresh, bit of citrus, bitter hops. Aftertaste: still fruity, little bitter, hoppy touch, citrus, red fruits, lemon drops. Really well balanced! I bet a lot of girls who now drink the overly sweetened kriek beers, would like this better.

Droog mondgevoel. Balans tussen zoetigheid, bitterheid en kruidigheid. Gebrouwen met biologische Poperingse hop, ongeraffineerde rietsuiker en een kleine hoeveelheid knoflook. smaak is in het begin zacht met een vervelende bittere smaak, welke verder in het biertje wat minder wordt, echter blijft in de na/afdronk weer terugkomen. niet mijn favoriet --- Beer merged from original tick of TRPL on 15 May 2018 at 21:02 - Score: 5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Jessenhofke TRPL (by Jessenhofke):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5

26/X/2012 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ Klaas' place - BB: 14/VI/14 (2012-1180)

Clear yellow to light orange beer, small aery white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit sweet, sugary, spices, bit cheesy, grass and herbs. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, bit sugary, citrus, bit dusty, alcohol is clearly noticeable, bitter hops, grassy. Aftertaste: some citrus, hops, bitter, little sweet. I remember in the past I was able to detect chives, but not this time. Wonder if it's still brewed with garlic.

Draft @19de Internationale BierHappening, Zottegem. Dorée/foin, col blanc léger. Arôme de grains, rappelle la drêche et le brassin frais. Léger fruité houblonné avec ce côté maïs cuit. Palais est léger, en un style de bière de table très agréable. Profile grains dominant et qui ici aussi rappelle le brassi, côté houblonné est juste là en retrait procurant un léger côté citronné/agrumes. Reste sèche, grains, et douce vers le maïs et un léger fini amer.

van een bruin bier verwacht ik een biertje met karakter, daar kon dit bier niet aan voldoen. Het kwam erg licht, zelfs waterig over. zeer beperkte co2 gehalte.weining bitter. vlot drinkbaar, zonder echte complexiteit, lichte body. lichte tonen bemerkbaar van geroosterd mout, toetsen van kruiden en fruit. over het algemeen komt deze te korte voor een bruin bier, wel lekker weg te werken als dorstlesser, maar geen aanrader.

75cl bottle from Hopduvel shared with Tomaz. Orangée/ambrée, col épais blanc. Arôme est fruité avec ce bouquet de baies/mûres rappelant le jus pressé. Palais présente une fine amertume fruitée, terreuse et baies/mûres. Brève amertume houblonnée complète le tout et un malt léger. Malheureusement la mûre ne procure pas un changement radical en fin de ouche, ce qui est ok pour le niveau d’alcool de cette bière. Au final, sympa sans vraiment changer le style, ais a au moins le mérite de ne pas être fruité aux extraits faux de fruits.

Towering, very light pink and variably bubbled head over fully hazy pinkish amber beer. Very demure nose. Bit spicy, maybe some green (unripe) berries. Faintly fruity with fruitacidity. Impossible to say which fruit. Wheat seems to come forward. Quite slick, velvety and very carbonated. Trials @ Cantillon decades ago showed that blackberries have little to deliver aroma- or flavourwise, even little colour. Proven again.

Pours hazy gold into a tulip. White head with good retention recedes leaving spot lacing to crater surface. Sweet caramel and vegetal aromas. Soft and thin with caramel upfront turning mildly pepper before the lasting toasted malt finish.