Bottle at home. A bit hazy amber color, medium sized beige head. Aroma is malts, a bit bready, dough. Flavor is malts, sweetish, amber malts, light malt bitter. Decent to medium body and carbonation. Meh. 6-3-6-3-11

Bottle @ home. hazy blond colour, white foam. Estery, sweet malty, some lemony notes. Lots of carbonation.

Dark brown colour, beige foam, disappears quickly. Sweet nose of caramel, spices. Taste is sweet, caramel, some tart notes. Ok.

The obligatory brown one in this series of classic Belgian beers brewed southwest of Antwerp. Membranously lacing, medium thick, off-white, gradually dissolving head over a translucent brownish-bronze beer with ruddy hue. Aroma of dried peaches, quite a lot of iron or steel pipes, lightly toasted bread, butterscotch candy, old cookies, dried banana, hints of gin, candied figs, raw red cabbage. Sweet onset of dried banana, apricot and candied fig, but not cloying at all and balanced by an underlying sourishness and minerally, sharpish but - for a dubbel - standard carbonation. Slick, tad resinous mouthfeel, butterscotch- and eventually very lightly toast-like maltiness with metallic edges (the iron pipes again!), ending with some liquorice- and clove-like phenols but in a perfectly acceptable way, as well as something remotely gravy-like and a light herbal hop bitterishness - but malt and residual sugar sweetness, in a honeyish and caramelly way, remains the dominant factor. Alcohol provides some subtle 'afterwarmth' but remains perfectly hidden. Very classic in its make-up, sweet, not too complicated and very accessible, one for a large and traditional Belgian audience I'd say, but - apart from the strong iron note - free of technical flaws and in that sense meritorious enough, like the Blond one.

Pours unclear, darker amberblonde. Small white head. Smell is bit malty, very mild yeastyness (esthers ) but overall, not very intense, and still pretty balanced. not much hops though. Taste is reasonably bitter. Surprisingly aromatic. tad sweet. esthers, but in an enjoyable amount. mild grassy notes, as well as fruity notes from the hops, that turn over a bit spicy, which compliments the yeastyness really well. carbo is average, which is extraordenary good for a Belgian random tripel, that is usually overcarbonatred as fuck. The body is also very nice. Overall, this is a quite simple tripel, but well made, and clear of the errors so many other Belgian tripels have. I enjoyed this more than I anticipated for.