1 April 2019. At (Moeder) KILA Quiz - cheers to my team mates! Pours hazy golden-orange with a big, lasting, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of ripe, almost mouldy, orange, apricot & banana, burnt white sugar, yeast, iron, ripe red & yellow apples, apple sauce, clove. Taste is medium to heavy fruity sweet, apple sauce, ripe apricot & banana mixed into an industrial white bread (mass-produced 'pullman loaf'), accents of honey & clear residual white sugar, countered faintly by a light spicy bitterness with clove, some grass, which renders it a bit phenolic & metallic too. Dryish, grassy hoppy finish, soon overpowered again by ripe fruits, white sugar & slightly astringent, warming jenever alcohol (bordering on boozy white rum). Medium body, creamy texture, lively carbonation. I get that a student society would opt for an 'allemansvriend' or 'everyone's friend' as a beer, and indeed, this goes down very well (admittedly, I drank two, but I prefer this over Jupiler). If sophistication is not a prerequisite, this is probably the best you could hope for.

One of several beers made here and there in Belgium during the past four years intended to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of World War I (“lest we forget”, as the front label on this one says). Bottle from Willems in Grobbendonk. Medium thick, frothy, snow white, intricately cobweb-lacing, moussy head over a lightly hazy ‘old gold’ coloured beer, warm with a pale orangey tinge and fierce sparkling; misty with sediment as expected and intended. Aroma of raw parsnip and turnip, strong wodka-like booze even to a near-solventy effect, bubblegum, banana, peach, unripe pear, baking soda, moist white pepper, some onsetting ‘rusty’ oxidation. Sweetish onset mostly due to strong isoamylacetate (banana ester), note of green apple, peach and pear with a sourish note, very fizzy carbonation distracting a bit from the actual flavour; bit doughy, cereally white-bready malt body but dryish, not hindered by over-the-top residual sugary sweetness. Coriander and mild phenolic spicy notes in the end with a dash of floral hops but, more than anything, followed by a lot of ‘jenever’-like, heating, eventually slightly burning alcohol. Harshly boozy, this beer is clearly stronger in ABV than its own body can carry – and collapses a bit under it as a result. Other than that, this is a worn-out Belgian tripel recipe, executed too thin and ‘understuffed’. Far less memorable than it intends to be, I’m afraid… Nice label, though.

28//10/2018 @home - 33 cl bottle from a trade with jerre. Clear golden,sticky big soapy head; Nose is malts and spices. Taste is malts, spice, bit saison feel, very dry bit bitter ending. Turned out to be the best of 4 tripels tasted in a row.

Tripel created for a local supermarket in Lauwe (Western Flanders), the revenue of which is partially spent on the Alzheimer Liga. Thanks tderoeck for sharing. Medium thick, snow white, irregularly moussy, dissipating head over lightly hazy pale orangey-tinged golden beer. Aroma of banana, ripe peaches, sweetbread, meringue, pineapple, coriander seed. Fruity onset, banana ester, pineapple, apricot, soft carb, full and bit ‘fluffy’ mouthfeel; bready malt sweetish middle with lingering honeyish residual sweetness, coriander spicy touch in the finish alongside a herbal and floral hop accent but providing low bitternes, so that the sweetness prevails, enhanced even by a wodka-like alcoholic afterglow. Sweet and boozy tripel, very accessible to a traditional Belgian palate, which I suppose can only benefit Alzheimer research in this specific case…

Imported from my RateBeer account as Noë tripel (by Brouwerij Eutropius):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5

20/X/18 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home, BBE: 2020 - (2018-1585) Thanks to Jerre for the trade!
Clear orange beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet, bit medicinal, honey, sugary, orange peel, yeasty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: rather sweet, malty, bit sugary, rotten fruit, slightly sourish, yeasty. Aftertaste: some honey, little bitter, malty, sweetish.

Bottle thanks to Dave pours out a burnt orange topped with a small fizzy head. Nose is spice triple belg yeast notes and some sweet pit fruit malts. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts pit fruit and some spice.