Bottle at home. Clear golden color, medium sized white to off-white head. Aroma is malts, hayish, dusty grainy in a pretty good way. Flavor is malts, a bit yeasty, moderately bitter, hayish bitter notes. Alright tripel.

The strong blonde - now explicitly dubbed 'tripel' - in this Ox range, a pseudo-revivalist brewery in Wevelgem southwest of Courtray referring to a 16th-century historical brewery there (I assume without any living descendants able to claim the name from these guys)... Bottle from the Carrefour supermarket in Sint-Denijs-Westrem. Medium thick, frothy, beautifully 'Kortrijkse kant'-like lacing, egg-white, very stable head on a misty peach blonde robe with orangey glow. Quite strong yet simple and not too inviting aroma of honey, old potatoes, soggy old bread, peach, cooked tomatoes, overcooked cauliflower (DMS), cold carrot soup, cooked pear, sugar beet, green tree leaves in summer, wodka. Sweet onset though not overly cloying, ripe peach and pear hints, low in banana (oddly perhaps), sweet red apple and a dash of yellow plum, estery and very 'Flemish', with active but small-bubbled carb and smooth, full, somewhat 'fluffy' mouthfeel. Soft sweet bready and sandwich-like maltiness then passes, already with a trail of 'dirtiness' behind it - a 'dead' yeastiness which has absorbed probably more (hop) bitterness than was the intention. Indeed a dried-flower-, dandelion-root-like earthy hop bitterness lingers at the back, in itself well in balance with the malts, sugars and esters at least to contemporary Flemish norms, but in my view insufficiently capable of countering that sweetness. Some warming wodka-like alcohol in the end, amidst this underachieving hoppiness, lingering esteriness and yeasty 'dirtiness' - highlighting not only those elements but also a whiff of coriander, as it apparently ought to be in Belgian tripels nowadays (note that the archetypes of the style did and do not contain a grain of coriander at all). Your typical present-day Flemish tripel: boorish, crude, sweet, coarse, earthy and boozy, with the residual sugar and coriander seed clichés applied all too generously. On top of all this, DMS persists all the way and I sincerely hate it. One for the less discriminating beer drinker who does not know any better and aspires for a quick buzz. Perhaps I would do the same if ever in Wevelgem, but I am not here to judge. Oh wait a minute - I am...

Bottle shared by Caesar @ Mancave Bunnik. Dark brown color, average sized beige head. Smell and taste malts, medium sweet, distantly herbal, brown candy sugar, dark fruits lightly, somewhat bitter. Typical Belgian Quad. Alright.

Bottle at 't Mouterijtje Kortrijk. Hazy gold colour lasting white head. Yep a good strong blond. Bit of a kick to it. Malts are a little golden syrup. Some earthy hops. Some dryness on finish. Some spicy hop.decent.

Bottle at Het Mouterijtje. Black beer lasting tan head. Malty aroma. Good malty flavour in the mouth. Chocolate dark chocolate but kinda 60% cocoa rather than full on dark chocolate. Hides abv well. Yes good chocolate malt quad.

Bottle at 't Mouterijtje Kortrijk. Hazy dirty gold colour lasting white head. Odd saison. Almost no saison character. Some almond flavour. Drinkable enough. Just not what I expected. Its OK.

Cette Ox 12 fait partie des bières que j'ai du mal à comprendre. Pourquoi réaliser une bière aux arômes de vin aigrelet épicé avec du candy et des notes de prune. Certaines choses restent mystérieuses. Le visuel est sur un joli blond limpide avec une mousse brune peu présente. Le nez laisse dubitatif sur l'alcool à 90°, de la prune et du candy. La dégustation est toute autre et c'est davantage la sensation de vin aigre épicé qui ressort et ce dès l'attaque. Prune et candy complètent le tableau. La deuxième bouche est un peu plus douce avec des arômes de prune un peu plus affirmés et un alcool, à 10 % plus violent. L’arrière-bouche a quant à elle des relents de vin chaud qui laissent perplexe. Le final, sur la lancée ne convainc guère plus. En fait, je pense qu'il faut mieux que j'arrête de me poser des questions et qu'il me faut mieux oublier ce bœuf.

21/IV/20 - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: III/2021 (2020-356)

HUGE GUSHER!
Little cloudy dark brown beer, big aery irregular beige head, pretty stable, little adhesive. Aroma: very malty, caramel, soft roast, lots of alcohol, some phenols, ripe banana, dried fruits. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, lots of alcohol, pretty roasted, coffee notes, bitter touch, sugary. Aftertaste: nice roast, lots of alcohol, little metallic, nice bitterness, lots of coffee, dark chocolate, pretty decent beer, but I do NOT like that sort of gushers that spills half the bottle all over my table and floor!

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