The tripel in this commissioned series, now made at Deca, formerly at Gaverhopke. I have the "traditionally brewed" Deca version in front of me - fortunately, considering my past experiences with Gaverhopke. Moussy, almost snow white, ’membranously’ lacing head, retaining well as a steady rim and in an intermittent ’veil’ of foam in the middle; immediately hazy lightly orangey peach blonde robe with ochre hue. Aroma of cooked turnip, plastic, some bubblegum and banana ester, freshly cut grass, young ’jenever’, unripe peach, dry earth, straw, strong coriander seed, soggy chicken corn, wet cardboard, withered celery, moldy white bread even, old herb cheese, baker’s yeast, starchy old potatoes, glue-like solvents. Fruity onset, sweetish banana and pineapple mingled with sourish gooseberry and unripe pear, simplistic, playing a bit in a quite sharply carbonated physical environment, with the carbonation numbing the tongue a bit even for a tripel. These fruity esters are carried backwards over a bready, grainy and indeed noticeably corn-accented middle (corn effectively being used here), restrainedly sweetish, leading to an earthy, yeasty finish of ongoing malt sweetness, a touch of earthy hop bitterishness enhanced a bit in the end by bitterness-absorbing yeast bits also lending the finish a bready feel but - more than anything else - strongly remind me of Van Steenberge’s almost ’plastic’ yeastiness (see Augustijn, Bornem Tripel etc.) even though this is made at Deca, and, unsurprisingly seen its presence in the nose, a glow of warming, gin-like alcohol; malt and fruity sweetness get the last word but fortunately do not become cloying anywhere. Another tripel on the sweeter side of the style - the side which is much more crowded than the bitter side for commercial reasons - and in that sense completely redundant and out of touch with the more recent evolutions in craft beer. I’m beginning to hold a grudge towards this style for its omnipresence in Belgium alone and this umpteenth example does not help. Correctly made I suppose, but clearly too rough on the edges for my liking even for a regional tripel. The glue-like solvent aspects in the nose kept irritating me throughout as well. Absolutely unnecessary!

Sampled at Zythos 2016. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is yeasty, bit bitter. Taste is yeasty, bitter, and very, VERY overcarbonated ( to a point the bottles probably nearly explode )

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is mild fruity, slight estery. Mild fruity, phenolic, light estery. Mellow fruity. Toasted. Light estery. Smooth fruity finish.

Stark karbonisierter Antrunk. Mild herb, spritzig. Wenig intensiv. Typische belgische Hefenoten. 9/7/8/8//8

Cloudy orange color with white head. Aroma is spicy yeasts, apples, floral. Taste is spicy, tart, wheat, dry finish. Overcarbonated, unfortunately. The apple-ness feels off. Not great.

(24.04.2016)Sampled @ ZBF 2016. (Thank you for sharing RB people!) looking at deScription this guys made a wise decision to stop brewing at ’t Gaverhopke, their blond which I tried at ZBF 2016 is still being brewed there as to be expected it was awful. This one isn’t that great but at least it isn’t a train wreck, I can imagine this appealing to some. Deep hazy murky orange. Spoiled yeast & mandarin nose, old peel & aspirin, big white sugar sweetness. Taste is better ,sweet banana, sugar, candy dull but acceptable candy, less yeast, light dry mandarin peel in the finish, only faintly medicinal. Yeasty, malty body. 3.4/5 (05.02.2018) Thanks to tderoeck, Bierridder_S & Rubin77. Sampled draft @ Brugs Bier Festival 2018. Ugly orange, small off-white head. Nose is spoiled chemical glue, dead yeast, paint,… Taste is rotting weeds, thin grains, chemical, spoiled coriander, weeds, thin, fizzy,.. Glue,… Taking the score down.

Trübes goldgelbes Bier mit großen weißen Schaumkrone. Geruch grasig, getreidig, Heu. Geschmack blumig hopfig, trocken, Heu.

Trübes goldgelbes Bier mit geringen weißen Schaumkrone. Geruch leicht hopfig, grasig, blumig. Geschmack getreidig malzig, leicht süß, kaum hopfig.