The tripel in this series of Alfred beers, made in honour of a former local brewery; bottle from Van Eetvelde in Lokeren. Thick, egg-white, frothy, creamy and stable head on a clear, warm ‘old gold’ coloured beer with fierce sparkling sustaining the head for a long time. Aroma of banana peel, sweet apple cider, bread dough, dried camomile, apple sauce, butter, green melon, coriander seed, old straw, dried out leek. Fruity onset, apple-ish with notes of banana and pear, sweetish with lightly souring, fizzy, lively carbonation; some lingering residual sweetness with honeyish effect over a clean, pale malt sweet, bit bready middle, slick and lean, with a soft finishing hop bitterness providing some camomile- and old leek-like aroma retronasally. The malt and residual sugary sweetishness, even if nothing cloying or obnoxious, does get the last word, with some minerally aspects to it. Sweetish, very accessible, proportionally quite ‘clean’ and technically well-made classic style Belgian tripel, nothing wrong with this, but nothing remarkable happening here either.

Beautiful warm and sunny afternoon in Brugge (15th May 2018). 33cl bottle drank in the rear garden area of the Bier Paleis. Thin white head on a clear golden yellow body. The nose carried some light fruity esters, mild herbal notes and a slice of doughy bread roll. The taste was more bitter than the aroma indicated, still some fruit, herbal and bread hints. Very pleasant in that afternoon sun.

Shared with Beerhunter111 and Koelschtrinker. Smooth red sourish beginning. Easy to drink, refreshing with a nice woody red sourish back. Easy to drink, fruity woody, round and smooth. Nice brew.

Thank you for sharing RB People! Sampled @ ZBF 2018. Golden, clear. Soapy white head. Nose is esters BE phenolic, plaster, chemical. Taste is esters, chemical, dough, plaster, chalk. Poor esters, man this is weak for something that has the Verhaeghe name attached to it.

Bottle. Clear golden color with white head. Aroma is estery, candy, typical Belgian blond. Taste is sugar coating, esters, sweet. A bit watery mouthfeel with low carbonation. Meh.

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A clear golden beer with a small white head. Aroma of mild sweet grainy malt, straw. Taste of mid sweet grainy malt, straw, spices and belgian yeast.

Clear blond colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have some sweet malts and a little bit of banana. Quite sweet but still refreshing.

Süß-säuerlicher Beginn. Fein würzig-zuckrig, die Säure lässt nach während die Süße kosntant bleibt. Spritzig, vollmundig, nett. 9/8/9/8/7/9

33cl bottle. A clear orange brown beer with a mid-sized most good lasting off-white head. Aroma of red malt, red fruits, grapes. Taste of red berries, grapes, red malt.