Grass, yeast, and malt aroma. Taste of yeast, slightly sour malt, a hint of spices and yellow fruits.

26/XII/24 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Strasbourg holiday apartment, BB: VIII/2025, L053-24 (2024-1311)

Pretty cloudy light yellow blond beer, creamy irregular yellowish to off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: very floral, some tropical fruits, juicy, a little dank, some marijuana, more floral hops, lavender, peach and apricots. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of citrus up front, lemony, pretty sweet, sugary, alcohol, some banana, lots of bubble gum, somewhat floral, soapy touch. Aftertaste: coriander, more soapy, floral, banana, yeast, some citrus, way too sweet and sugary, a bit sourish, meh, not a big fan of this. The (Belgian) yeast is way too overpowering on this one.

0,33 l bottle. Pours pale yellow with small, quickly dissipating white head. Aroma is wit - wheat, orange peel, coriander, a hint of yeast. Taste is light sweet and bitter. Body is light, carbonation lively. Finish has a bit more bitterness. Refreshing if not top wit.

37,5cl Fles van Wijnhuis Oudorp. Troebelgouden kleur, witte kraag. Bloemig, druif, licht moutig/oude koekjes, gist op een goede manier, limoenschil, hint van alcohol, goed bittere finish. Fijne tripel. Medium tot volle body.

Õlle on selline jook, et iga uus kord kui klaasi või pudeli suule tõstad, siis leiad midagi uut, sõltuvalt tuhandest-miljonist pisiasjast, mis hetke olukorda mõjutavad. Seega piirdun iga õlle juures selle tekstiga.

Fast gone head over clear, still, yellow-golden beer. Fruit and vegetable bulbs. Citrus, citrusgums, blossoms. Banana, sweet citrus as yuzu. Perfumey, but without much complexity. Light body, despite the ABV. Medium carbonation. I suspect it is made for what brewers think to be the discerning ladies. Most know better. Txs to Stef!

Pours dark, unclear purplered. Small pink head. Scent is very fruitforward. Blueberry. Taste is full, very fruitforward, but also very sweet. Fruitjuice (not syrups, according to the sales rep) . But sweet and simple nevertheless. Based on a blanche, but lost all beer flavors. Loads of sugar, I assume.

Pours slightly hazed yellow. No real head. Scent is very green, raw, wort-like. Taste is a bit bitter, green beer, wort-like. Unfinished. Not awefull, but certainly not up to today's , nor Lupulus' standards.

Pours clear blonde. Small white head. Scent is intense, very stonefruit forward. Well pronounced hops for sure. Fresh, almost woody , harsh hops. Taste is full, bit bitter, very herbal/stonefruity. Beautifull typicality of both hops and lupulus, well recognizable and pronounced, beautifully balanced. This is what you always hope for in special versions, but very rarely get to experience. Soft backbone. Medium, creamy body and medium carbo. Possibly the best special version of Lupulus Blonde !!!

Lupulus tripel (though clearly not the regular, thyme-flavoured Lupulus) dry-hopped with New World hops, unfortunately not mentioning which ones; can from the Carrefour supermarket at Groene Vallei ('green valley' - actually a former factory site turned into a public park) in Ghent. Thick and frothy, very moussey, membrane-lacing, fluffy and dense, stable head on a misty pale yellow blonde robe with khaki tinge and fine strings of steady sparkling. Aroma of honey pomelo, guava, papaya, cold pasta, raw sweet potato, pineapple, overripe yellow plum or even medlar, vanilla sugar, roses, green melon, brioche bread, something puddle water-like but not really bothersome. Sweet onset with faint sourish edge, clean and sleek, with hop-induced fruitiness of pineapple, guava, pomelo and papaya, prickly carbonation disturbing these flavours a bit and depositing a lingering minerality on the tongue's surface, smooth and rounded mouthfeel - more supple than one typically expects from a beer this strong, even a tad creamy. Brioche- and croissant-like maltiness but in fact just a basic pale malt 'cerealliness' combined with residual sweetness, increasingly drenched in fairly convincing New World 'hazy IPA' hoppiness, with all that papaya, guava, pomelo and pineapple returning, tropical and sultry with a refreshing citrusy edge. In the end, these hops add a bit of much-needed yet soft bitterness as well, balancing out the sweetness; alcohol, in an almost Passoã-like way, warms a bit but knows how to behave and keep silent, so that the hops get the last word, only highlighted by booze instead of ripped apart by it. Frankly, I was not expecting this kind of elegance and genuine 'tropical' hop aroma, so for a supermarket can, this is surprisingly enjoyable; even though the brewery, developed from its ultra-local Trois Fourquets origins, presents it as a tripel, it does not have that typical Belgian tripel feel at all: in fact, should I have tasted this without knowing, I would have easily classified it as a NE(D)IPA of sorts, or at least an ale so heavily influenced by it that it resembles NEDIPA more than its own intended style, which probably sums it up here. And to think that this was probably even more aromatic when it was young(er)...