Pours a clear gold with some sticky white head. Nose is gristy, honey, lemon, candy, orange. Flavor has yeast, grist, dough, lemon, flowers, orange. Finishes spritzy and dry. Nice, quite malty. 7 4 7 4 13

33cl bottle. A clear golden beer with a huge most good lasting white head. Aroma of strong pale malt, riped yellow fruits, belgian yeast. Taste of yellow fruits, citrus, belgian yeast, mellow, stone fruits, not bad!

Bottle @ Beerlovers Bar, Antwerp. Clear yellow golden color, medium to full sized white head that lasts for quite a while. Aroma is malts, hops, unfortunately also some old hops and a bit buttery. Taste malts, hops, again some buttery flavors unfortunately and moderately bitter. Body and carbonation are nice for a session IPA this low in ABV but the buttery flavors are killing for this sort of beer.

2 June 2018. Dag van de Kriek, at 'In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst'. Thanks to Erwin Vanmol for handing out samples! Shared with Anke.
Pours hazy yellow with a big, collapsing, lasting, foamy, white head; little lacing. The aroma contains earth, wet leaves, some rainwater, yeast & wort, ripe banana, wheat, white bread, pinapple. It tastes medium malty sweet with hints of bread, dough & pineapple, and light grainy bitter, some hops & spice; maintaining a sourish back. Dry, earthy hoppy finish, bit wheaty & bready. Medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation. Unusual 'Belgian blond', quite earthy, not as fruity as it promises to be.

--- Beer merged from original tick of Tripel Gronckel on 19 May 2018 at 23:34 - Score: 6

(Bottle, 0.33 l - BB 12/10/20, at One Pint Pub, 20180509) The beer poured deep golden and lightly hazy. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had honey, caramel, Belgian style yeast and grass. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were honey, sweetness, Belgian style yeast, grass, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste was grassy, sweet and bitter. A nice clean tripel.

Tap at Beerloversbar. pours cloudy blonde, medium sized, stable white head. Smell is spiced ( ginger ) some wheat. Taste is mild, balanced, wheat, ginger. very refreshing and thirstquenchening. Well brewed , attypical witbeer.

Much-discussed low strength and contemporarily hopped Belgian blonde developed in the end of 2016 by Jan Panneels, nephew of the owner of the legendary In De Verzekering Tegen De Grote Dorst, who was then not even at legal drinking age, so he couldn't even legally taste his own creation... Brewed at Vrijstaat Vanmol, where Panneels had started working as an assistant. Hopped with Simcoe, Citra, Cascade and Mosaic - talk about contemporary hopping - and brewed with, apart from barley of course, wheat and oats. Thick and densely creamy, tightly 'membrane'-like lacing, creamily egg-white head remaining closed and stable for a very long time, crowning a hazy straw-yellow blonde beer with slight lime greenish hue and strings of lively sparkling here and there. Expressive, rather dank, indeed very heavily IPA-coloured aroma of stale lime juice and lemon zest, olive oil, dried yellow grapefruit peel, sweet white onions, melting margarine, old lemon loaf, pine-scented hand soap, gypsum, white bread dough, ripened Gouda cheese, fresh camomile flowers, stale armpit sweat, unripe pear, marijuana, cooled cooked rice. Crisp, 'cleanly' fruity onset, hinting a bit at hard pear, green apple and unripe banana but very low in sweetness, with a soft, basic sourishness underneath accentuated a bit by the wheat; medium carbonation, surprisingly full body for a beer barely exceeding the 3% ABV limit - with unmistakable wheat soapiness, and even more outspoken oat 'velvetiness', lending it a pleasant creaminess. Dried white bread-, cereal- and butter corn-like grain base, creamy - even buttery - as said, underneath an increasing, confident, spicy, leafy and grapefruity hop bitterness which pumps up dried lemon peel-, camomile- and pine resin-like aromas through the nose; this long-lasting bitterness acts very quenching and drying, but is, in the very end, still a bit softened by the creaminess of the oats. Slight bready yeasty notes linger as well, especially after adding the sediment. This may have been conceived by a kid, seventeen years old at the time I'm writing this, but the beer is anything but childish: this indeed qualifies for the "session IPA" categorisation, still with a light Belgian yeastiness to it, but otherwise very clean, straight to the point and uncompromisingly hopped in both a firmly bittering and a modern aromatic way. The use of oats to add body in a beer this low in strength, especially seen the context in which it is made, is a stroke of genius one would expect from some hip, internationally acclaimed American or Scandinavian craft brewery, but things are changing rapidly all around the world... This brew seems to prove that youth indeed has the future, also in a stubbornly traditional beer country like Belgium. This is extremely quenching, well-executed, clever and elegant, I could drink a whole crate of it and still not get bored. Probably the best Belgian ISA so far, but then this very young style (even internationally speaking) is still a rarity here so that probably doesn't say a lot. I need to revisit this in more fresh condition than I did, however, as the fragile delicacies of the hops used here were already rapidly fading and getting more blunt and cheesy than they most likely are when the beer is young. One to chug down fresh from tap on a hot summer day, that much is clear.