Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Creamy off-white excellent fully lasting head. Amberbrown colour. ;oderate malty and hoppy aroma, week but nice. Powerfull flavor, but a little too alcoholic. Long finish. Fantastic palate, almost syruply.
Svesse (15730) reviewed Kasteel Tripel from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle, Akkurat, Stockholm, 2 Sep) Colour is pale, golden amber, very small head. Nose is fruity with orange peel, marzipan and candy sugar, a bit closed. Taste is fruity with orange, mandarin, marzipan and candy sugar. Spicy hops in the warming finish. Sweet alcohol dominating the palate, but it stays within limits, not at all unbalanced. Quite drinkable but lacking something extra in taste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. 9%. Clear golden colour a decent off-white head. Spicy, peppery flavour. Taste is very well balanced and very smooth
Lubiere (24459) reviewed Kasteel Tripel from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Hazy blonde with a thick cremay white head. Light sweet malt with herbal spices, like thyme, and catnip. In mouth, a sweet dry malt with orange peels, and a warm alcohol finsih. Some metallic notes. A delicious beer. Bottle from Bieropholie private imports.
saxo (29721) reviewed Kasteel Donker from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Decent head with medium duration. Color is brown. Heavy aroma of fruits and spices. Taste is sweet and fruity with some alcohol.
MiP (20366) reviewed Brigand Belgian Ale from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle, 9%. Clear golden colour. Spicy, peppery flavour. Aromaless. High carbonation.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed St. Louis Gueuze from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 19 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Best before 11/2004, 250mL capped bottle from Jacob Lovenlund, consumed on 8/5/06. So almost 3 years old, I think? That or 4 years old, I can’t imagine the brewery recommends keeping this pasteurised, filtered crap much longer than 1 year.
The appearance says Belgian ambree, as it’s quite ruddy-orange and too dark for a true gueuze (and this is obviously no specialty gueuze). Off-white head is large, foamy/fizzy and quickly recedes to partial cover and then ring, leaving little-to-no lacing behind. Fizzy, large bubbles rise languidly to the top, but can not bolster the head for long.
Heavily, heavily sugary in the nose. It pretty much smells like priming sugar, like corn sugar/syrup, was used to give this beer aroma. DMS is certainly rampant. Behind the vegetal nightmare, lies a sugary, caramel-like "maltiness". Wheat is lightly dry, nutty. No alcohol in the nose. No lambic either.
Flavor - sigh....it’s like the rest of its brothers; chapeau, mort subite, lindemans, belle-vue, sadly lacking of any lambic notes, sugary, corny, vegetal, metallic, watery, cloying. Just a horrid mess. The good news is that I’m almost through the gauntlet of these fake gueuzes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can, 25 cl, best before date: 30 07 2007, purchased on July 29 2006; eye: cherry with a pinkish head that disappears rather quickly but leaves a ring around the glass, clear, no effervescence; nose: cherry syrup, maraschino cherries, sugar; mouth: cherry syrup, sugar, finale of cherry but the sweetness is controled a little by a little acidity with a hint of sugar at the end, quite sweet, no bitterness, full body, sticky texture, rather thin, good carbonation; overall: not so bad but quite sweet FRANÇAIS Canette, 25 cl, date de péremption : 30 07 2007, date d’achat : 29 juillet 2006; oeil : cerise avec une mousse rose qui disparaît assez rapidement mais laisse un petit anneau autour du verre, claire, pas d’effervescence; nez : sirop de cerises, cerises marasquin, sucre; bouche : sirop de cerises, sucre, finale de cerise mais coupée par une petite acidité et pointe de sucrée à la toute fin, très sucrée, aucune amertume, corsée, texture collante et plutôt mince, bonne carbonatation; en résumé : pas pire mais pas mal sucrée
fonefan (84534) reviewed Kasteel Tripel from Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck 19 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Clear yellow coloured with a medium sized white head. Aroma of fruits with note of spices and light acidic notes. Fruity flavour with notes of spices and alcohol. You fell the alcohol.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Dirty brown coloured with a thin off white head. Very classy flemish sour aroma, with grounde cherries, sweet candy notes and light acidic points. In mout, however, a pathetic and thin sour, with light cherries and tartess and watery like hell. Bottle at l’Autre Oeil, July 26, 2006.