Affligem Triple

Brewed by Brouwerij Affligem / De Smedt (Heineken)
Style: Abbey Tripel
Opwijk, Belgium

3 June 2005 - (Hotel Montana) - Light sweet fruit malt aroma. Clear amber colour with good head retention (sediment in bottle). Fruit malty hop flavour. Tangy, lingering fruit malt and medium mouthfeel.

Pours golden with a thin white head. Estery aroma of apples, bubble gum, and peppery spices. Alcohol is quite well hidden! Medium bodied with light carbonation. Not too sweet with an excellent bubble gum finish. Slight metallic bitterness in the finish. Quite fruity and enjoyable.

Great fluffy head and strong hop & wheat aroma. Cloudy pale copper in color. Bitter hops and light pepper flavors filled my mouth initially but the finish was tapered with a slightly sweeter malt influenced taste. A nice balance in flavor to offset the high alcohol content.

Dark gold in appearance with a sheen of carbonation in the middle and a concentration of bubbles on the circumference. Alcohol is present along with fruit on the nose. Excellent front-end flavor with higher malt content than most. Middle and end were not quite as good, as it finished pretty bitter and acidic.

Pale amber colour, fine--beaded head; grass, biscuit and resin aroma; sweet/bitter taste with pepper, caramel, cream and raisin aromas; bitter finish with caramel, orange, pepper and resin aromas. A very good beer. Has the correct balance of sweet malt and hoppiness. A beer I could actually drink for pleasure. Heineken’s best top-fermented beer (that I’ve tried).

Strong spiritus aroma. Clear red colour with fair head and lacing. Strong spiritus malt flavour. Fizzy palate.

Cloudy gold with merangue topping and chunky lace. Marc dropped the bottle, trying to show me how incompetant I am at using a wall-mounted bottle opener. It didn’t break, but the beer fobbed a bit upon opening. Woody red grape aroma with notes of oak, peach, and some sweet malt and spicy alcohol. Not unpleasant, woody cardboard flavour with alcoholic raisin and a late sourness that develops with contrapuntal bittering. A little warming with a light body and high carbonation.

Pours orange gold with billowy white head. Notes of heavy bread and light citrus. Full palate. Very bright taste of lemon/orange alcohol with spicy peppercorn finish, herbal endnotes. Very quenching at the end of a summer’s day. Heavy spirals of lacing. Quite nice.