New beer in the Tripel K series, all brewed with clover, for an organic shop in Hoeselt (Limburg) called Biosenza. They have four different beers now so it is handy to have them gathered under the Biosenza label I suppose, but of course none of them is brewed by the actual shop and since beer production is not this shop's core business, I do not think it deserves a brewery status on this website... Anyway, this David is executed at Wilde Brouwers in Merelbeke near Ghent; my rating concerns a bottle bought at an organic shop in the Kortrijksesteenweg in Ghent. Thick, dense, foamy, pillowy, egg-white head, plaster-like lacing over a misty yellow straw blonde beer with visible sparkling. Aroma initially dominated by carbon dioxide but once this fades, revealing impressions of halfripe banana, raw potato, green pear, grass, plaster, young 'graanjenever', cooked parsnip, clove, dried parsley and plastic. Fruity onset but nowhere really sweet, hinting at green banana, unripe pear and raw cucumber, strongly and minerally carbonated with a rounded body; cereally and white-bready maltiness adorned with phenolic spicy notes (clove) but quickly overruled by a long, earthy, grassy hop bitterness. When the bitterness fades, an almost 'juicy' green apple fruitiness remains, alongside bready yeastiness and a subdued glow of 'jenever'-like alcohol - subdued enough that it is just to say that for this type of beer, the alcohol remains well hidden and does not bother at any point. Technically quite well done (though I would never have recognized Wilde Brouwers' house style here): a dryish, hop bitter 'edelbier' and certainly not the worst in this substyle of Belgian strong ales I had. With a tripel already present in the range, one could ask what the purpose of this new addition is, but this is up to Biosenza, of course...

Hazy blond colour, white foam. Sweet, some fruity notes, light bitter, good strong blond.

Goudkleurig bier met stevige volle schuimkraag. Smaak is licht bitter hoppig en licht zoet kruidig met iets van appel en banaan.

Gushing to huge, ultra-dense off-white uniform head, over clear pale copper beer. Aromatic nose with a lot of almonds, marzipan. Bit yeasty, almost bready. Slightly roasted, almost smoked flavour. Still some sweet almondy flavour, especially towards the finish. Unbelievably stable head creamy, of course, medium bodied, pretty slick. Seems not very highly attenuated. Sweet tripel.

Bottle from Prik & Tik, Sijsele. Pours clear dark golden with a lasting, thin, unstable, frothy, white head. Aroma of white sugar, white bread, honey, apple peel, wort, banana, kitchen herbs. Taste is medium fruity sweet, some estery banana next to ripe apple & pear, against a sugary & bready backbone; mild bitter accents of herbs, spices, grass, something zesty sour. Dryish, grassy hoppy finish, lingering ripe fruit, quite yeasty, some bitter, crude grain. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. Nothing really off here but underwhelming overall.

Bottle. Blonde. Soft floral aroma. Hint of coreander. Malty sweetish flavor with citrus and coreander.

Commissioned tripel formerly brewed by Jessenhofke but now in the kettles of Het Nest. Eggshell-white, frothy and foamy, cobweb-lacing, irregularly edged head over a cloudy peach blonde beer with ochre-ish edges. Aroma of ripe banana, old bread crust, dried apricot, straw, jute bags, gin, sweetbread, meringue, cooked apple, touch of iron. Sweetish, fruity onset, banana, pear and pineapple aspects, lively carbonation adding lots of mineral effects, full and soft mouthfeel; sweetbready and bread-pulp-ish malt body, some honeyish residual sweetishness on top, leading to a finish that adds the classic soapy coriander seed effect, a floral and mildly bittering hoppiness and an afterglow of warming, brandy-ish alcohol, yet it is the sweetness and the banana ester that linger. There is a very faint herbal accent somewhere at the back, which I assume is the added clover, but otherwise this is about as stereotypical as tripel gets, but - in vein with what I am used to from Het Nest - technically completely flawless and in that sense very solid.