7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
473mL can, pours a hazy golden orange with a medium white head. Nose doesn’t bring out an authentically tripel character – there’s some clove, maybe some banana, as advertised, but those are hefeweizen notes, so this already seems dubious given that the brewer advertises notes that do not characterize this as a typical tripel. I digress… beyond that, there’s light spicy yeast, and some low-level phenols (not exactly of the burnt rubber character). Flavour is very fruity, with lots of orange marmalade, some esters, a touch of vinous character almost, citrus, and some candi sugar. Well, this is anything but a classical tripel, but there’s definitely some nice flavour cohesion and even complexity here. Pretty good.