Black, lacing light tan head. Heavy malty aroma, vanilla, some wood, some boozy notes. Thick, fluffy mouthfeel. Sweet malty flavour, vanilla, dark caramel, light booze. Noce.

J'ai avant tout été surpris par l'amertume, relativement poussée (75 d'IBU) qui fait de cette Hoogheid une triple houblonnée aux arômes marquées de clémentines, orange, herbes et poivres. La densité et la complexité aromatique sont d'ailleurs plutôt plaisantes, mais une douceur certaine et un alcool, pourtant à 9 %, pas au niveau font clairement défaut. En verre nous sommes sur un ambré quasi limpide surmonté d'une mousse blanc cassé de 1 cm. Le nez est sur le miel, la pêche, la clémentine, l'orange avec de légères herbes. L'attaque est pour sa part très marquée en complément des arômes présents au nez. LA deuxième est sur une bonne amertume mais voit un alcool à la peine n'arrive pas à emmener l'ensemble. L'arrière-bouche, encore un peu plus amère tranche bien. Les arômes sont quant à eux relativement homogènes. Le final court, déçoit.

Pours fairly clear, strawyellow. Medium sized, relatively unstable white head. Scent is surprisingly clean. minor sharp (metallic?) touch, but not the usual blow of isoamylacetate. Taste is surprisingly balanced. I get some banana, but the malts keep the upperhand. Minor hoptouch (earthy, spicy, european hops) . Still get a slight metallic-like touch. High carbo (too high for me, but i've had worse) . Overall, decent, but fairly average tripel.

Beer made for a popular comedian, who is apparently befriended with the brewer, and explicitly requested a "not too bitter", "tripel-like" beer - sigh... Audibly crackling, egg-white, mousy, frothy, lightly lacing, foamy head on a misty straw blonde beer with deep golden core and fierce strings of sparkling everywhere. Aroma of strong soapy coriander, ripe banana, pineapple jam, peach, honey, wet brown paper, bitter garden weeds, young 'jenever', bubblegum, young Gouda cheese, soggy white bread, clove, some raw potato when warming up. Sweetish, fruity onset, lots of banana and pineapple esters mingled with pear and peach, sharp and numbing, very minerally carbonation, rounded mouthfeel; sweetish white-bready maltiness with lingering sparkling minerality at the sides and a layer of honeyish residual sugar sweetness on top, acquiring ever more coriander seed soapiness and spiciness, while a dash of floral hops shows up late to the party and adds mild and rather brief bitterness. Some warming calvados-like alcohol accompanies the banana ester, coriander and clean malt sweetishness to the end - while the residual sugars continue their sweetness also till the very end, even becoming a little bit cloying. Not too bitter and tripel-like indeed so I hope Philippe Geubels is happy with the result, but this is obviously just another Belgian cliché where the background story is more complicated than the beer itself; contributes absolutely nothing to the already vast ocean of tripels in Belgium, but it is admittedly well-brewed, so passes for me for that reason alone. Boring concept executed very correctly by Vleesmeester. --- Beer merged from original tick of Zieke Geest on 20 Nov 2020 at 23:56 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6. Original review text: Beer made for a popular comedian, who is apparently befriended with the brewer, and explicitly requested a not too bitter, tripel-like beer - sigh... Audibly crackling, egg-white, mousy, frothy, lightly lacing, foamy head on a misty straw blonde beer with deep golden core and fierce strings of sparkling everywhere. Aroma of strong soapy coriander, ripe banana, pineapple jam, peach, honey, wet brown paper, bitter garden weeds, young 'jenever', bubblegum, young Gouda cheese, soggy white bread, clove, some raw potato when warming up. Sweetish, fruity onset, lots of banana and pineapple esters mingled with pear and peach, sharp and numbing, very minerally carbonation, rounded mouthfeel; sweetish white-bready maltiness with lingering sparkling minerality at the sides and a layer of honeyish residual sugar sweetness on top, acquiring ever more coriander seed soapiness and spiciness, while a dash of floral hops shows up late to the party and adds mild and rather brief bitterness. Some warming calvados-like alcohol accompanies the banana ester, coriander and clean malt sweetishness to the end - while the residual sugars continue their sweetness also till the very end, even becoming a little bit cloying. Not too bitter and tripel-like indeed so I hope Philippe Geubels is happy with the result, but this is obviously just another Belgian cliché where the background story is more complicated than the beer itself; contributes absolutely nothing to the already vast ocean of tripels in Belgium, but it is admittedly well-brewed, so passes for me for that reason alone. Boring concept executed very correctly by Vleesmeester.

Bottle shared rha ks to Thijs. Slight hazy golden with white head. Soft fruity hops, light grassy, soft bready malts, CO2. Under medium sweet and bitter. Over light bodied with strong fizzy carbonation.

Bottle. Black. Caramel, soft roast and licorice in the aroma. Malty sweet, roasty, slightly herbal flavor with raisin and licorice. Almost full bodied.

Pas certain que j'ouvre une bouteille de cette bière un Jour de Fête bien que cette session IPA soit globalement appréciable avec une amertume saillante (50 d'IBU) bien dosée bien que légèrement astringente et perturbée par un houblonnage à cru un peu trop poussé. Mais sur le style c'est souvent sur l'accompagnement aromatique que l'on reste frustré, ce qui est le cas ici. Le visuel est sur un blond doré sympathique, quasi limpide avec une fine mousse blanche. Joli nez raffiné sur le litchi, l'ananas, la pêche, les agrumes et les herbes. Dès l'attaque, l'amertume sur le pamplemousse prend les devants accompagnée d'une légère base douce sur la pêche et un soupçon de miel. En deuxième bouche l'amertume est boostée par un houblonnage à cru un peu trop poussé. On y retrouve également en arrière-plan des notes de litchi et ananas. L’arrière-bouche est sur une amertume tranchante mais non agressive. Le final est sur une amertume sèche mais bien équilibrée. Pour le titrage alcoolique (4,2%), les corpulences et longueurs sont très correctes. Davantage pour un soir entre potes.

Bottle, 11%. Bready aroma. Black colour. Dark brown colour. The flavour is bready, quite sweet. Raw wood notes.