6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle from a Deen supermarket. Medium thick but quickly thinning, egg-white, moussy head retaining well on the edges and in an ’island’ of thin foam in the middle, over a hazy orangey golden beer with notably strong fizz rising up from the bottom of the glass. Aroma of banana, white pepper, dried ginger powder, wet cardboard, old ’jenever’, old mouldy orange, tomato, toasted white bread, withering flowers, fairly strong glueish phenols, cooked potato, mustard seed, coriander, grass. Fruity onset of banana, peach and redcurrant, sweetish and sourish with the expected strong (but still ’finely’ tingling) fizz, citrus peel freshness, supple honeyish and caramelly malt sweetness with a nutty edge, hint of cardboard above as well as spicy yeastiness, dryish in the end with peppery and floral hop character, mildly bittering, and the inevitable glow of rather coarse, gin-like alcohol, adorned with remainders of the phenolic spiciness and assisting the hops in drying the finish; an oily ’film’ of boring coriander bittersweet spiciness remains as well. Alcohol could have been better hidden even for a tripel (becomes even rather tiresome after a while), coriander should be a lot more subtle and malt body could have been thicker and ’fuller’; not very clean either, the phenolic part should be played down a bit. All things considered, this is a very ’Belgian’ but at the same time very average, not to say boring tripel. Lacks inspiration and refinement.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2015
at 21:45