beerhunter111 (50837) reviewed Tripel Achiel from De Haeckse Brouwers 4 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
A clear golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of belgian yeast, spicy and herbal malt. Taste of dry grainy malt, belgian yeast, yellow fruits.
Koelschtrinker (42759) reviewed Tripel Achiel from De Haeckse Brouwers 4 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 4.5
Heller, süßlich hellmalziger Beginn. Leichte Herbe, trocken, moderat würzig, erkennbar alkoholisch. Süßlich bleibend, herb, mittellanger Abgang. Nett. 9/6/8/7/5/7
Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Tripel Achiel from De Haeckse Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle from Primeurs Achiel in Oostende. F: medium, white, almost good retention. C: gold, light hazy. A: banana, red apples peels, spicy, honey, bready. T: full malty bae, banana, apples, bready, honey, spicy, toast, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, grainy and alcohol touch, ok for the style, enjoyed.
Tom (2084) ticked Tripel Achiel from De Haeckse Brouwers 4 years ago
nathanvc (7053) reviewed Tripel Achiel from De Haeckse Brouwers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Carrefour. Hazy golden, stable, foamy, white head with lots of sediment. Aroma of banana liqueur, ripe yellow apple, pineapple, honey, bread dough, clove. Taste has sweet estery banana, pineapple & apple, sugary-honey malty profile with doughy accents, spicy clove, aniseed & pepper in the middle; ends floral-peppery hoppy with 'wet' spiciness, ripe yellow fruit & warming gin-like alcohol. Medium body, creamy texture, average carbonation. Typical overly yeasty Tripel with too many sugary side effects.
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Alengrin (11675) reviewed Dozeur from De Haeckse Brouwers 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Blonde ale created for the company Pattyn Packing Lines (which has nothing to do with beer) and intended for their business contacts. The label does not mention an actual brewery, but since the other Haeckse beers are brewed at Gulden Spoor, I assume this is no different for this one. Medium thick, snow white, mousy, slightly irregular head, gradually opening but leaving a mousy ring and a few flat 'islands' in the middle; initially clear, warm but 'metallic' old gold robe with very vaguely ochre-ish tinge and some enthusiastic strings of visible sparkling, misty with sediment. Unassuming aroma of halfripe banana, chewing gum, sugared white bread, the obligatory coriander seed, pear, unripe apricot, hints of plaster, vague sourish green apple note (acetaldehyde?), sweetclover, old sandwiches, soaking wet white paper or even wet cardboard, potato peel, iceberg lettuce leaves. Crisp, restrainedly fruity onset but still with very obvious isoamylacetate (banana ester, the bubblegummy way in this case), hints of freshly cut apple, green pear and unripe peach, very fizzy carbonation adding minerally and sourish effects; slick, smooth, bit glueish body, slenderly cereally with light and clean white-bready impression, sweetish but not covered in residual 'honey-like' sugars as is all too often the case in this genre, with a very light metallic edge and lingering coriander seed soapiness in the end, before a very mild, floral hop bitterishness shows up hardly trying to lend body, dryness and complexity to the finish - so that everything remains primarily reminiscent of coriander, pear and a dash of banana. Luckily not too sweet contrary to so many other Belgian blondes, but dramatically lacking in personality - even if this had been made thirty years ago, it would already have been obsolete. The company Pattyn clearly has no clue about beer history - but it should be mentioned that, as usual with Gulden Spoor, the task has been technically well executed. This is as cliché for Belgian blonde ale as it gets - a 'pilsvervanger' without any knowledge of, or ambition to, higher gastronomical beer levels. I guess the description starting with blonde allemansvriend should have rung some bells, but this kind of boring stereotypes certainly are not my friend... One of the most unnecessary beers I had in quite a while now.
jefverstraete (7491) reviewed Tripel Achiel from De Haeckse Brouwers 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Belgian Brewed. Hazy orange colour, white foam. Fruity nose, some peach and banana. Taste is medium sweet, some herbal notes. Medium bitter finish.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Tripel Achiel from De Haeckse Brouwers 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tripel commissioned by Primeurs Achiel, an old grocery store (since 1929) in Ostend that also deals in wine, cheese and other culinary products. Gusher, but slow enough to be manageable. Thick and frothy, egg-white, very mousy and fluffy, membrane-lacing, creamy and stable head, deep and warm glowing orange blonde colour made 'dirty' by a 'soup' of dead yeast bits everywhere, perturbed by whirls of fierce sparkling, quite interesting to behold, actually, shifting to a deep, more equally hazy orange blonde with sediment. Aroma of orange peel soaked in gin, bubblegum, banana bread, honey, pear candy, pineapple, freshly cut red apples, apricot jam, carrot soup, old jute bags, straw, dried sweetclover, iron piercing through (quite unmistakably so when warming up), young 'jenever', clove- and liquorish-like phenols. Sweet, lively, fruity onset, very estery, red apple, banana, pineapple and peach, with audibly fizzing, yet minute-bubbled and - thanks to that - non-numbing yet very vivid carbonation; residual white candi syrup sweetness on top of a smooth, full, bready and very lightly caramelly maltiness, with the fruity esters mingling with strong spicy phenols (clove, liquorish, even vague anise), towards a boozy finish in which the malt and residual sugar sweetness continue, barely balanced by an earthy, floral hop character and - more so perhaps - by a somewhat wry and crude, gin-like alcohol effect. Metallic effect is noticeable, but less strongly so than I was fearing based on the iron aspect in the nose. In all, an acceptable tripel for sure, sweet, very yeasty and boozy the way traditional Belgian consumers will like it; a bit rough on the edges though, with alcohol that could have been better hidden, sweetness that to me is not enough balanced by hop bitterness and yeasty effects that are a bit 'overboiling' even for a classically shaped Belgian ale. Unnecessary and rather unrefined, but passes.
nathanvc (7053) reviewed Herborist from De Haeckse Brouwers 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Carrefour, Sint-Kruis. Pours hazy ochre-orange with a big, slowly thinning, frothy, white head. Aroma of orange peel, honey, ripe banana, coriander, lemon zest, wheat, kitchen herbs, perhaps basil & rosemary. Taste is light fruity sweet, notes of orange & apple on a bready & tad honey-like malty base, sourish wheat & lemon zest support a light spicy bitterness with obvious coriander, yet pepper & kitchen herbs as well. Dryish, peppery hoppy finish, lingering wheat, herbs, orange peel. Medium body, slick texture, lively (over-) carbonation. Benefit of the doubt for the taste here, carbonation impairs it a bit.