Bottle as Tripel @ Qvarteret (test tasting). Unclear golden under a huge, foamy white head. Aroma is classic Belgium tripel with yeast, spices and phenol, but a bit less distinct than average tripel IMO. Taste is sweet grain, Belgium yeast, some banana and cloves, sharp but not very bitter hops and slightly dry aftertaste. Quite nice, just not among the best triple from Belgium, perhaps a bit in the direction of a traditional blonde.

Bottle @ Qvarteret (test tasting). Unclear orange/red/ body under a foamy pink head. Aroma has cherry, fruit candy and some marzipan. Taste is sweet with some balancing acidity, but still a bit too sweet IMO. The cherry and marzipan from the aroma also remain in the taste but the candy part tastes more in the direction of cherry syrup. Balanced body with the same fruity and slightly artificial aftertaste. It’s a drinkable beer, but I find it too sweet and artificial to make a repeat purchase of this.

Bottle @ Qvarteret (test tasting). Slightly unclear pale golden body under a nice, white head. Aroma is grain with a light touch of spicy yeast. Taste is rather clean pale malt and grain. Light bodied with short aftertaste. A decent, refreshing, almost generic NA beer. It’s labelled as a blond, but I miss the more distinct Belgium yeast impact with a spicy touch as which usually belongs to that style. Nothing wrong but nothing outstanding either.

Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Pale yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy and yeasty aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. oily palate. Fizzy.

Pours dark brown into a tulip. Mocha head with medium retention recedes leaving trailing sheets. Berry, cherry, caramel and chocolate aromas. Thick with hot chocolate-covered maraschino cherry, dusty strawberry and licorice front to back. Medium length hot chocolate finish.

Witbier in a new brand of Belgian beers including all the 'obligatory' variants, which nowadays also includes a non-alcoholic one; this brand pays hommage to a legendary king of Mallorca named Sigis, whose tomb stone is kept in the museum of the Groeninge abbey to this day - but who, according to modern historical research, never really existed. In any case this brand seems to be intended for export and considering how stylistically cliché all its beers are, is all about cashing in on the "Belgian beer brand" - as if the craft beer movement never took place. Can shared by tderoeck, cheers Tim! Snow white, medium sized, opening head on an initially clear yellow blonde robe, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of banana peel, white soap, coriander seed of course, dried orange peel, cooked turnip, apple peel, something very faintly anise-like and a background whiff of DMS (overcooked broccoli). Fruity onset, green pear, banana and a touch of peach, medium carbonated with slick wheaty sourishness in the middle (quite pronounced), complemented with white-bready pale barley malts and of course the obligatory coriander spicing, though perhaps not as dominant as in many other traditional Belgian whites. Curaçao (dried citrus peel) is present as well, while a floral hoppiness provides a very basic, very 'silent' bitterish touch and the DMS comes back retronasally. Very average 'blanche' in the old Hoegaarden style we have known since the sixties - and loved until the eighties or so, as consumption of this type of beer has significantly declined since then; as predictable, cliché and boring as it gets even within this style, which is rarely innovative anymore these days. I guess the same goes for the other members of this export brand - maybe I will encounter another one of those some day, who knows.