Bornem Triple

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Abbey Tripel
Ertvelde, Belgium

RE-RATE: Bottle (330ml). Poured muddy orangey yellow with a huge, bubbly, head which was mostly diminishing. Aroma was of pears with grassy hops, lemon zest, cinnamon, white pepper, cloves, bread malts and some light notes of dried banana. Flavor was very peppery with a decent hop bitterness, dry pears, green apples, tangy lemon zest, bready malts, coriander and a warming finish. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation, a somewhat syrupy texture, dry mouthfeel and a good finish.

Bottle from 6 pack Belgian sampler. Poured golden yellow with white head. Yeasty aroma. Malty and hoppy flavor but nothing exciting, average at best. Seemed overly carbonated. Not one I would try again.

Bottle. Plenty of sweet candied malt on the nose. Some dusty yeast and spice as well. Pours full gold with a thick white head. Decent balance of candy malt and dry yeast on the tongue. Some odd tobacco and leather notes as well. Medium bodied with too much carbonation. Finishes with a blast of yeasty dryness.

Hazy yellow colour, big white head. Aroma has yeast and spices. Flavour is yeasty and hoppy. Lots of carbonation. Not very special.

Spicey aroma from a cloudy golden body with a medium white head. Spicey flavor with some light fruit notes and malt flavors. Light mouth feell with high carbonation. I like it but there are much better tripples. I like it but don’t love it.

Pours a slightly hazy pale gold with an immense head. Pungent aroma of spice, apple, and alcohol. Pear & apple in the taste - reminds me of apple cyser, in fact, with the sweetness. Strong alcohol and a warming finish with nary a sign of any hoppy bitterness, just a slight dryness to the finish. Really really overcarbonated, difficult to work out the carbonation when it has such a wild head. Body is light and crisp. The alcohol makes this a real sipping tripel, and the fruitiness is engaging. I like! Perfect for a slow summer evening shared with friends, for you’d really have to work at downing this bottle in a short period of time on your own.

(33cl bottle) Luminescent but pale color with lots of bubbles, white foamy head and killer lace patterns. All downhill from there. Smell is simplistic: a touch of honey and dates but not much else and slightly soured. Mouthfeel is buggy: too spiky/prickly and unappealingly harsh on entry but softens up if you let it linger in the mouth. However, there’s not much to keep you interested in doing that because there isn’t much taste in this beer. I really had to search for something and mainly came up empty. Reminds me a little of bad mead. A little bit of a struggle to drink and I winced after more than one sip. A good one to save for the end of the night when you couldn’t care less about what you’re putting down your gullet. Or for non-discerning company...

Aroma is rather pleasant to the olfactory. Perhaps a little rubber on the nose. Ubiquitous pale yellow clear beer appearance. Barely any carbonation but does have a slight creamy tingle down the throat.Mildly bitter but hides the alky content well for a 9%. Overall not bad for such a high % alky content. Expected it to be more punishing to the palate, but it wasn’t. Not as refined as other trips such as Chimay , Church brew millenium or grimbergen.