27 September 2018. Birthday Antwerp Pub Crawl - cheers to Anke! At Gollemke.
Pours clear golden/yellow with a lasting, small, foamy, white head; irregular lacing. Aroma of mouldy apple, ripe apricot, sweet wort, soap, cheese, some sweat, yeast, white bread. Sourish yeasty & medium sweet onset, quite bready with hints of apple & pineapple; light spicy bitter middle with some dank cheese. Dry, yeasty finish, bit grassy hoppy, sourish citric touch & warming jenever alcohol. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Well-made but stereotypical & quite 'dank' Belgian Tripel.

The third embodiment of this series of oak aged Oude Caert tripels, 75 cl bottle from Drinks 4 U in Deinze, shared with tderoeck. Never saw this coming as I missed the 2016 versions apparently, but then those were even more limited than this one so I guess they were distributed only very locally. This 2017 one, from six barrels in total, has been aged on single malt whisky barrels, allegedly from a famous brand - but a brand that apparently doesn't want its name attached to this beer, as its identity remains anonymous. Towering high, irregularly lacing, egg-white, stable, moussy head over a hazy, deep yellow blonde beer with pale orangey tinge. Aroma olf ripe banana, vanilla-ish oak wood, apple sauce, coriander seed, whisky, apricot jam, sweet white wine, green pear, grapes, butter. Sweetish onset, strong banana isoamylacetate like the basic beer, ripe pear and peach notes, sharply stinging overcarbonation, full and rounded mouthfeel; bready, soft malt sweet body with honeyish residual sugariness on top. Develops more complexity in the finish, where, amidst malt and sugar sweetness, banana ester and soapy-spicy coriander, a delicate vanilla-like oakiness shows up, yet remaining (too) limited in tannic effects; a warming, vinous, more wine- than explicitly whisky-like alcohol effect ensues. Hops provide a soft, earthy bitterness, malt and estery sweetness remain dominant with the coriander very noticeable in spite of the barrel treatment. Ends bready-yeasty and warming. I have no idea how much time d'Oude Caert Tripel spent in a barrel but in any case it wasn't long enough to deeply penetrate the beer with oakiness and whisky aromatics; I usually like oak aged tripels quite a lot, but this one remains too close to its own basic self and doesn't entirely live up to expectations. Still an interesting ale, though, making me curious about the whole project, even if finding bottles of the older variations will probably be quite a challenge.

A light yellow beer, a head is big and white. Simple and nice aroma with fruitness of perry and spicyness, hint of earthyness and sourness. Taste has fruitness, spicyness of pepper, hint of earthyness. Medium bodied, high carbonation. Nice and simple.

Imported from my RateBeer account as d'Oude Caert Tripel Oak Aged Vat 1-6 / 2017 Premium Single Malt Whisky (by Brouwerij d'Oude Caert):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5

19/VII/18 - 75cl bottle, shared by Alengrin @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: 31/XII/19, VAT1, bottle #42/269 (2018-860) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!

Clear bright blond beer, big foamy white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet, banana, sugary, co2, coriander, bit soapy, smoky touch, ripe banana, some vanilla, some sulphur. MF: way too effervescent, medium body. Taste: all coriander in your face, seriously, super soapy, lots of alcohol, lots of unripe banana and banana peel, whisky notes, more alcohol. Aftertaste: hint of vanilla, soft bitterness, more coriander, soapy finish, bit floral, alcohol burn, rather disappointing.

A golden beer, a head is big and blond. Aroma has fruitness of perry, spicyness and mustyness of yeast. Taste has fruitness, spicyness and yeast. Medium bodied, high carbonation. Some mustyness and thus propably the most important thing, the freshness is not there.

330ml bottle. Cloudy, orangey golden colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Biscuity, minimally grainy and strawy, malty aroma, fruity hints of peach and apricot, some yellow apple, a touch of oat flakes, minimally dusty, peppery spicy overtones. Taste is slightly sweet, fruity and alcoholic, notes of yellow apple, hints of peach; warming alcoholic finish; slightly thin and watery, too much alcohol presence.

Bottle 330ml. [ As d'Oude Caert Tripel ].Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, moderate yeasty, sweet yeast, fruity yeast, light pepper. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration, belgium yeast, fruity yeast, pale malt, sweet malt - sweet yeast, light peppery. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20170929] 6-3-6-3-13

Bottle 330ml. [ As d'Oude Caert Tripel (Tri3pel) Hop ].Clear medium to dark yellow colour with a large to huge, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, pale malt, moderate to heavy yeasty, belgium yeast, fruity yeast - hops, spicy - fruit peel. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a long duration, belgium yeast, fruity yeasty - hops, spicy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20170929] 7-3-7-3-14

Bottle, 8%. Clear golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, yeast, spices, pepper and hop. Flavour is malt, yeast, spices, little pepper, medium sweet, little orange and medium bitter.