330 ml. bottle sampled. BBF 18/02/2017. Purchased @ Willems & Zoon. Hazy orange golden, white bubbles. Nose is very dull & empty, candy, big yeast, grain, lightly watery,… Taste is boring, overly yeasty, mild candy-sweetness, watery, light dull metallic note, some sweet orange peel, lightly fake tasting,… Low carbonation & watery. Intensely boring & forgettable.

Pours clear blonde. No real head. Smell is yeasty. taste is Sharp, bitter, very blank though. Boring beer.

Three grains abbey tripel (like Bosteels’ Tripel Karmeliet) brewed at De Graal by a relatively young beer company. Moussy, lacing, irregular, off-white head over an initially clear, deep ’old gold’ coloured beer with low sparkling. Aroma of gooseberries, sourdough, dried apricot, dried orange peel, strange cava-like smell, grass, stale sweat but not so much that it becomes obnoxious, hint of banana, pineapple, nettles, white bread, coriander seed, flowers, unripe peach, vanilla accent, starfruit and something elusively pear-like (perhaps locally cultivated pears?). Sweetish onset, hint of banana, bit bubblegum (white candi sugar syrup?), pineapple, gooseberry and some passion fruit, so very estery to begin with, with a soft sour berry accent and medium carbo; gentle bready maltiness ensues, bit honeyish with a very soft, soapy wheat malt sweetishness to it, ’green malts’ and green apple peel touch, smooth, little bit syrupy, with a finish of grassy and lightly peppery hops rendering it a deep, leafy bitterishness; the malt sweetness lingers as the last impression, along with yeast fruitiness, a drying, somewhat resiny, bittersweet coriander effect and, lastly, a quite harsh presence of young ’jenever’-like alcohol, not only warming as it should be in this style, but a bit wry as well. In all, pretty decent tripel, seems to have become a bit more confident since I last tasted it two years ago. Strangely, the label claims this to be a ’three grains tripel’, yet the ingredients list only mentions barley and wheat. I assume some rye malt has been thrown in, which might explain the dull spiciness. In any case: nice attempt with enough complexity and ’mystery’ to it, but most of all too alcoholic and too sweet to be a truly great tripel. Yet it does feel kind of ’natural’ and has no real off-flavours (anymore), so this is not the worst tripel I tasted, by far.

Clear deep golden colour, small frothy white head, good retention, good lacing. Perfumed nose, aroma sweet malts, candy sugar, yeasty, some peach, light banana. Tastemedium sweet, slightly bitter, fruity notes. Medium body, creamy texture, bit peppery on the tongue, average carbonation, finish mild sweetbitter, light herbal notes, nice.

Thx! to Kogymo. 33 cl. bottle sampled. Hazy orange with a small but creamy white head. Nose is thick yeast, way too much of it, thick yeast apricot, fermenting white bread. Taste is thick yoghurt, thick yeast, overripe fruits, egg yolk, plaster, old stale yeast, apricots. Thick yoghurt / yeast. It is okay but this yet another BE beer that tastes like drinking a glass of yeast. I do not get it still.

Thnx to Kogymo Pours blonde, warm , good white head smell is yeasty , intense , sweet malts Taste has some ( belgian ? ) hops . bit vegetables, bit bitter . Good carbo . Big malty back . Dry sweetness

Imported from my RateBeer account as Vals Paterke Tripel (by Brouwerij 't Drankorgel):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

26/IX/13 - 33cl bottle from 4de Gents Bierfestival @ home - BB: I/2015 (2013-891)

Clear blond beer, aery irregular white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet, bit sugary, banana, yeast, honey. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet, yeast, green banana, pretty bitter, bit metallic, grains. Aftertaste: bitter, bit sugary, banana, some citrus, more banana. T58, is it? :p It's definitely not the typical De Graal yeast.

Bottle shared with Joes, Dutchdrebus and Ansjelaah @ weekly tasting. Hazy yellow to orange color, small white head. Smell lightly malts, lightly candy, sweetness. Taste lightly malts, sweetness, slightly leaves, lightly pepper and a touch of fruitpeel. Medium body, too high carbonation imo.

Bottle @ benzai. Hazy orange with a small white head. Smells banana, yeast.. Meh. Tastes chemical fruits, syrup, herbs, sweet. Medium body, nice carbo.

Small rim left, clear yellow-copper beer. Garden herbs, weeds, wild hops; faintly spicy. Spicy hops, faintly toasted grains, nettles. Slick, medium bodied. Not exciting, nothing wrong with it.