33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ van Rooij, Culemborg. Black with a thick tan head. Sweet chocolate aroma with a hint of oak and hops. Sweet taste with a smooth medium bitter finish. Nice one.

330ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, yellow-ish golden colour with average to huge, slowly osteoporosing, minimally lacing, white head. Minimally bready, wheaty malty and mildly spicy, minimally dusty yeasty aroma, hints of wheat, white bread crust, some coriander, whiffs of horseradish. Taste is minimally bready, wheaty malty, slightly citrusy fruity hoppy and minimally yeasty spicy, hints of wheat, white bread crust, lemon, a touch of coriander and horseradish, subtle residual sweetness. Watery texture, minimally dry palate, medium, mildly prickly carbonation. Somehow a bit raw, fairly refreshing - nice.

Pas convaincante du tout cette Fort Lapin 10 qui se veut être une quadruple mais qui n'en n'a pas les codes. Le visuel est sur un ambré quasi brun légèrement voilé avec une fine effervescence soutenue et une mousse blanc cassé nappant la surface. Le nez est aigre avec vinaigre, citron, mélasse, caramel, porto et fruits confits. Dès l'attaque une légère acidité et aigreur se font ressentir. En deuxième bouche, cela s'aggrave avec peu d'équilibre et surtout sans la puissance qu'a usuellement une quadruple. L’arrière-bouche est davantage sur l'acidité et le final, discret, n'a que peu d'intérêt. L'alcool, pourtant à 10 % est un grand absent pour une quadruple qui manque de puissance et qui pour moi, n'en est pas vraiment une.

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.

The quad in this Bruges la Morte series by Fort Lapin, referring to the title of a 19th-century novel by Georges Rodenbach, a relative of the founder of the Rodenbach brewery. Thanks tderoeck for sharing. Thick and frothy, membrane-lacing, pale yellowish beige head on a clear mahogany brown beer with bronze core. Aroma of toasted brown bread, tree leaves, iron shavings, nutmeg, clove, dry caramel, old ‘jenever’, some brown honey and a whiff of coffee grounds. Dried fig and baked banana in the onset with a dash of prune, sweet with medium carb; full mouthfeel, but with a metallic ‘zing’ to it due to doubtlessly added iron. Brown-bready, dry-caramelly maltiness with a nutty edge and a toasty bitterish aspect, combining with a leafy hop bitter element but also this annoying iron effect; warming, brandy-like alcohol in the finish. The iron bothered me a bit and the toastiness here is outspoken enough to qualify as a Scotch rather than a typical quadrupel. Decent enough, but not worth going out of your way to find it.

Late-hopped tripel by Bruges brewery Fort Lapin, referring to Georges Rodenbach’s novel “Bruges-la-Morte” (1892); thanks tderoeck for sharing. Medium sized, eggwhite, frothy head over a hazy golden blonde robe with apricot tinge. Aroma of unripe peach, old bread crust, raw potato, grass, raw green cabbage, parsley, cotton cloth, ‘jenever’, blue limestone. Green-fruity onset, hard pear and unripe banana, minerally and lively effervescence, sweetish touch (apple) with soft, smooth body; white-bready maltiness with some light honeyish residual sugariness on top, meeting a grassy and herbal hoppiness in the finish, quite long and bitter (the effect of late hopping indeed), adding that odd parsley-like aroma again. Alcohol remains relatively well hidden. Technically decent tripel, very correct and drinkable – but adding nothing to the already vast tripel landscape in Belgium.

23/VII/24 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Alengrin’s place, BB: 26/IV/25 (2024-588)

Clear red brown beer, big solid creamy beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: chlorine, alcohol, some solvents, a bit of dried fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: a little sweet, somewhat metallic, dried fruits, quite some chlorine, soft roast. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, a bit hoppy, lots of alcohol, banana and banana peel, a bit metallic in the finish.

23/VII/24 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Alengrin’s place, BB: 21/IV/25 (2024-587)

Clear yellow blond beer, big solid creamy white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: oh boy, all coriander, nothing but coriander, soapy, very floral, herbal, a bit fruity, pears, some banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, coriander, sweet touch, very Belgian flavour, bitter touch, ok-ish. Aftertaste: coriander, bitter, dry, a bit spicy, hoppy, very soapy, more coriander.