4 year old bottle I poured this into a snifter-type glass, not quite a Trappist style. It originally poured out straw colored like a Duvel, then turned yellowish-brown as sediment swirled in. The foamy head almost boils away. It's got a big Belgian smell and taste of oranges, coriander, candi sugar and honey. First beer I tasted that reminded me of honey, after dozens of “honey weisses.” Rather pleasant to sip while relaxing.

Extremely cloudy dark yellow color, large white head. Citrus, yeasty aroma. Bit sweet and spicy taste. Nothing special, no alcohol presence.

Golden color, thick white frothy head. Aroma is spicy, citrus. Yeasty and spicy taste.

The aroma is very sweet with notes of spices, lemon, oranges, and yeast. The color is a hazy orange and it has a beutiful huge though collapsing white head. The flavor is dominated by sweetness combined with a mixture of spices, I think corriander is one, a quite nice combination of sweetness and spicyness. In the middle the alcohol runs prickling over the tongue. In the end the spicyness turns woody dry with a slight hoppyness to it. The mouthfeel is a little thin in the beginning, but when the alcohol kicks in it is great. A quite nice beer - one of the better Triples on my tastebuds.

Huge, brownish, dense head; dark chestnut, but fully clear. Dark malts in the nose, as brown candi sugar and a hint of liquorice. Fresh herbal smell as from parsley (often in this type of beer. Wonder what it really is). First taste is bitterish because of roasted malts, but underneath rather massive sweetness. There is some carbonation-induced acidity. Very full mouthfeel, more than for usual dubbels. Bit sticky as well. End is more watery. I taste copper too, but I'm afraid that's suggestion. Well, not really great. Average, archi-conformistic.Earlier Rating: 7/5/2003 Total Score: 3.4Stupendously huge head, dark-creamy collapsing to dense layer. Dark brown beer with reddish shine. Rich thick malty nose, a bit soupy. Then a whiff of grassy hops. Very malty base, but overlaying bitterish taste, composed both of roasted malts and hops. A bit yeasty. Full-bodied. No excessive alcohol, very carbonated. Aftertaste sweeter and thick, as the mouthfeel - a bit chocolatey. I am anything but a big Van Steenberge fan. However, they deserve credit for this kind of basic, well-made beers. Even if it pales to nothing against their, much lighter, "Bios".

Straw gold; lively carbonation to huge & dense white head, creamy in texture. Nose yields chalk, alcohol, but is also flowery, blossom. Dry taste with a strange twist as from Manzanilla sherry (remarkable - never encountered with this before). Palate is sweeter, with the carbonation giving a slight sourish streak. Dryness and alchol paint the mouthfeel treacherously lighter than it is. With the exception of "Bios", the Bornem T. ranks at the top at Van Steenberge IMO - which doesn't say a lot. But this sample exceeded my best hopes.

Dark amber color; overcarbonated; giant head. Malt aroma, roasted barley, caramel, nuts, some old hops; carbonic; white sugar. Quite round, malty; caramel; maybe not enough structured, and too sweet at the end (indeed, missing some hop).

Very pale yellow, fully hazy; white fluffy head. Nose of chalk, wheat, curaçao, lemongrass. Coriander dominates the taste (the more as it warms up), more lemon than curaçao. Wheat character obvious; very light peppery finish. Light but not empty; refreshing. OK wit - but too much soupy coriander all the same. I just don't dig the style.

Very deep brown with a reddish shine; dark brown head, collapsing. Nose of dark malts, malt syrup, molasses, spicy liqueur aroma. Light acidity, related to rather high carbonation. This on top of a rather sweet beer; bitter touch is rather woody than hoppy. Bit empty texture, pasted up by a sticky mouthfeel. Malts are there, but they don't seem to be very convinced themselves. Highly carbonated, malt syrup in the nose and thinnish texture. Somehow it all fits together, no? And I keep convinced if you call it "bok", you ought to use bottom-fermentation.

(My bottle is called "Piraat Amber"?) Dull hazy orange colour; very sticky pearling, huge golden head, very slowly collapsing. Nose is meaty, yeasty, nearly cured ham - like, metallic to lactic sour. Smells infected! Taste is - thank God - at odds with the nose, except for the very yeasty-creamy mouthfeel. Beer is outspokenly sweet, liquorice-tinted, and with background citruszeste flavours. Bit of spices in the palate: nutmeg, coriander, but all as if below identification tresholds. Thick mouthfeel, much alcohol is obvious. Bit sticky ending. There's something amiss with the nose of my particular sample. Rest is more classic - at Van Steenberge they like sweet - alcohol punch, very politic.