Bottle courtesy of a friend. Poured a clear straw colour with a frothy white head a few bubbles. The aroma is yeast light sweet malt. The flavour is medium sweet light bitter with a yeast resin alcoholic bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. A familiar and standard Belgian Tripel.

Successor of the old Brugse Tripel by Gouden Boom, in which Palm uses its own yeast and changed the first part of the name because the word ’Brugge’ looks more familiar to foreign tourists than ’Brugse’ (which simply means ’from Brugues’, obviously). Deeply golden blonde (’old gold’) with thick off-white head; aroma of apple, water melon, hay, pepper, lemon zest, thyme, coriander, bitter honey, white grapes, bread, aniseed; fruity, yeasty and caramelly malty taste with lots of explicit spiciness, drying towards the finish, where except from herbal hoppiness some warming, but not acerb alcohol also manifests itself. Perhaps a bit too straightforward, like most of Palm’s ales nowadays. I have also tasted this under its new alias Brugge Tripel Gruut and frankly, I am not convinced at all that this is really an alias: this version did seem more spicy, coriander and aniseed were clearly more emphatically present and the alcohol content of 8.7% ABV is higher than the old 8.2% ABV of the ’ordinary’ Brugge Tripel... Something to investigate! --- Beer merged from original tick of Brugse Tripel on 13 Jan 2015 at 13:48 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: The forerunner of Brugge Tripel, to the original recipe, i.e. made with the original Gouden Boom yeast. Tasted this many times some ten years ago, from its own vase-shaped glass. It was a hazy orange blonde beer with thick and moussy, yellowish white head and fruity character, bready, soft and sweetish, caramelly, yeasty with a drying finish of herbal hop bitterness and some warming alcohol. This was quite a decent tripel and in my view better than the current version - or this may just be nostalgia, perhaps.

Clear brown color with an ok tan head. Fine lacing. A bit sweet caramel nose with some spices. Fine body and a balanced sweetness. Caramel, malty, vanilla and some spices in the flavor. Lovely beer.
[Bottle from Systembolaget web order, Sweden]

Bottle @ klaverhoeve Pours clear brown .ok white head . Smell is sweet , caramel malts . Taste has some fine spices and herbs ( i suspect it is the gruut ) Sweet , yet not sugary . More complex than expected .

Clear, pale golden. Large and densen golden head. Sweet and fruity aroma hints of banana and coriander. Similar taste.

Tomada como brabante gran triple en junio de 2011. con fecha de cons pref para 02-05-2013. lote 16. Una triple estilo belga sin grandes sorpresas. Sabores maltosos y dulces, con buena sensación alcohólica de 8.7 vol.

11.2 oz bottle. Pours a honey gold color with a small white head. Sweet bready malt nose. Zesty toasted malt flavor. Bready malt flavor. Chewy mouthfeel . Just average.

Bottle. Clear golden liquid with huge white head. Aroma of bread, clove, flowers, sweet alcohol and vanilla. Taste is dry and light bitter with notes of clove, sweet alcohol and bread. Medium bodied with medium to high carbonation. Pretty nice.

Refrigerated 75 cl brown bottle corked and caged poured into a weizen glass. Pours hazy golden with small white head. Aroma is spritzy malt, light body, lower carbonation, and pretty good medium bubble lacing. Taste is simple, spritzy, light citrus, some light apple, and hints of herbs. Really sessionable, but lacking in flavor compared to others in the style, liked it pretty well.