Bottle at Hui’s place. Brown, big sweet, some cream, chocolate, not so nice finish. Backlog from 2014/11/01.

Really dark appearance. Plenty of oak in the aroma giving some alcohol and a hint of sourness. Seems like there’s a lot of red fruit sharpness in the taste. Generally quite sweet but with a background of roast malt bitterness.

Bottle 330ml. @ [ PBF X ] Petalax Beer Festival 2015 by oh6gdx, Petalax, Finland. [ As Ronaldus Witte Tripel ].Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, wheat, moderate yeasty, sour yeast, chemistry ? Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration,sharp, yeast, fruity, citrus fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20150725]

33cl Bottle from Prik&Tik Baelus, as Devil’s Heaven Oak Barrel Aged. Black colour, beige head. Aroma is woody, hint of cabbage, light sourness, vinous, booze, sour roasted malts. Flavour is sweet, roasted malts, red wine, wood, light tartness, chocolate, dark fruits, alcohol bitter finish. Medium bodied. OK.

Belgian oatmeal stout (a rarity as such) with irregular, cream white, dense, thickly cobweb-lacing head and translucent deep bronze colour with burgundy hue, blackish but not quite. Aroma of liquorish, caramel candy, bayleaf, chestnut, white pepper, straw, dried fruit. Restrained but sweet fruitiness in the onset, raisin, plum, hint banana, strong carbo (overcarbonated for its style!) but otherwise soft and smooth mouthfeel, caramelly maltiness with toasted and very lightly coffeeish accents, bittering but mildly so, with a peppery hop touch in the end; leaves a bittersweet coating after swallowing, quite pleasant. More than decent.

(Bottle, 0.33 l - 2014 vintage, at Stadin Panimobaari, 20150919) The beer poured golden and hazy. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had fruitiness, citricness and yeast. Palate was medium bodied and warming with medium carbonation. Flavours were sweetness, yeast, grass, tartness, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was fruity, tart and bitter. An interesting brew but the tartness made me suspect a possible contamination.

KRS 140315. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is grain, licorice, spices, yeast. Flavour is is caramel, malt, hop, coffee, chocolate, grain, licorice, spices, yeast. OK beer.

Bottled@PBF X. Golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, caramelly and toffeeish along with some mild alcohol sweetness. Flavour is fruity, some mild spices and a bit herbal notes to it as well. Nice yeasty/spicy aftertaste along with the sweetness of the beer.

Commissioned tripel, found in Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Very thick and rocky, irregular, greyish white, coarse and thickly lacing head, colour a warm orangey blonde, clear with lots of floating yeast, becoming - expectedly - muddy with deposit. Aroma of fresh sorrel and raw rhubarb as well as green apple - clearly an overdosis of acetaldehyde; I otherwise get bubblegum, pineapple, white grape peel, sugared strawberry yoghurt, a lot of banana ester, cooked red cabbage with brown sugar, sourdough, green plums, butterscotch, cake and a faint hint of burning wood, but not disturbing at all; in all, a bit cliché for a strong Belgian blonde but not unpleasant. Fruity taste, lots of banana and bubblegum so in that sense very stereotypically Belgian, pineapple, peach and kiwi, sweet and even a bit sugary, very strong and spritzy carbonation to the point that it detracts attention from the actual flavour. A soft, rounded honeyish malt sweetness ensues, loaded with spicy and fruity yeastiness; the sweetness persists till the end, but is accompanied by a grassy, lightly spicy, floral but most of all very earthy hoppiness, more aromatic than actually bittering; a dash of gin-like alcohol makes its appearance as well without becoming too astringent. Fruity but somewhat ’dirty’ yeastiness and lingering malt sweetness remain in the throat, only partially balanced with hop bitterness. A bit ’untidy’ and amateurish, lacking finesse and balance, but in all this is an agreeable tripel if you are into this particular style; I have nothing against this type of beers, it’s just that there are so many of them around here nowadays (or, for that matter, since decades) that it becomes hard to distinguish between them. This one passes for me, I even enjoyed it and it has all the typical tripel characteristics, but it has little redeeming features making it more memorable than just being another average tripel.