A clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of yellow fruits, strong malt, grains. Taste of belgian yeast, yellow fruits, grains, strong body.

Wenig herber, laff kräutriger Beginn. Trocken, wenig würzig, monoton. Etwas alkoholisch, kurzer Abgang. Ok. 9/7/8/8/6/7

One of a couple of ales developed by a father and son team in Rijkevorsel in the Kempen area of the Antwerp province, but brewed commercially at BeerSelect; apparently the father in question needed a new career after having managed a café for many years and stayed relatively close to his first profession... Huge, egg-white, pillowy, dense, regular, thickly plaster-like lacing head towering over a misty pale straw blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of ripe banana, withering leek, apricot jam, dry hay, pumice, raw turnip, old faded 'herbes de Provençe', clove, fried chicken, unripe melon, sweetclover, chamomile, dusty strawbales, dry earth, baker's yeast, roses, faint hint of soap. Fruity onset, banana ester mingled with impressions of peach, pear and slight pineapple, sweetish with vague sourish undertone, medium carbonated; supple body, cereally maltiness, slender and grainy with some residual sugariness sitting on top, clashing with an earthy and floral hop bitterness bringing retronasal aromas of rose petals, straw, mugwort and chamomile. These hops do deposit a relatively long bitterness, but some 'jenever'-like alcohol helps with this effect and the sweetness also persists. Earthy, slightly phenolic (clove) finish, in which the alcohol does get the last word eventually, even becoming rather wry in the very end. I can see how this is intended to represent a 'Belgian IPA' of sorts, but 'hoppy tripel' works equally well for me as a style designation - which is more often than not the case with stronger 'Belgian IPAs', in fact. Your typical earthy, phenolic, estery, sweet Belgian tripel with an above average, though still quite 'friendly' hop dosage, but no off-flavours worth mentioning so all things considered, a bit better than I was expecting. Decent enough for its very local purposes.