Brugge Tripel

Brewed by Brouwerij Palm
Style: Abbey Tripel
Steenhuffel, Belgium

Garrafa, em Bruges (BEL), em novembro de 2007. É 8,7% a graduação correta, conforme consta na garrafa. Dourada translúcida, com creme branco mediano. Frutada e floral, mas levemente. Carbonatação alta, pra mim desagradável. Parece uma Ale misturada com uma Lager. Álcool não aparece. Razoável.

(Bottle @ Laurent Café, Brugge, Belgium): Pours a fizzy golden brown color, good sized head, lasting, frothy, good lacing. Flower malty aroma, not much like a belgian, more malty. Malty flavor, flowery sweet, grapey taste. Some alcohol. Malty aftertaste, a little strong flavor. Alright.

Bottled. Hazy orange amber, creamy head. Aroma of orange with an evident addition of alcohol. Sweet and fruity, some syrup. Solidly malty with very light yeast character. More syrup than anyting else - perhaps alcohol is the closest rival. Drying out somewhat towards a finish with some cardboard. Pretty disappointing.

This is a very light tripel. Simple light fruit and malt aroma, no coriander or other spices, and what is there is not very interesting. Light malt and fruit in the flavor. Clear with a moderate head. Tasted at the Snuffel bar on Draught, Bruges.

Bottle from a store in Split.
Poured a lovely murky orange/red colour and a medium sized thick white head that went away slowly. The nose is nice, malt, honey (it’s quite flowery too), weak hops and alcohol and even weaker notes of lemon. Not bad, but not great. The taste is at first an assault of alcohol and hoppy bitterness, but a rather pleasant sweet, subtle honeyish malty background balances the severeness of the first two nuances of the flavour. Bitter hoppy lemon seed like aftertaste. The alcohol warms the mouth and, like the bitterness it’s way out of bounds for the style. No, I don’t like it all that much, but I can respect it in a way. Still, I’ve had far worse and this is possibly underrated (not by much though).

Bottle. 14,1C. Clear golden colour with medium white head. Spicy and malty flavor. Good tribel

Draught at the brewery. Flowers and spices, like a Christmas ale. Cinnamon, fennel, coriander. But the spices are not heavey, rather building on a soft flavour. Some warming alcohol in the finish.

An excellent belgian tripel. Great pour resulting in a thick white head. Nice spices give it a great flavor and it feels great going down. Not too sweet and strong alcohol.