Castelain ChTi Triple

Brewed by Brasserie Castelain
Style: Abbey Tripel
Benifontaine, France

Golden lager like appearance with a decent white head. Fresh orangey and floral nose. Clean crisp yeasty flavour with a slightly sweet body. Not overly complex, in fact a little thin. Not the finest offering from this brewer.

[Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm] Pale golden, fairly lively. Almondy yeast aroma dominates the nose. Medium sweet withclean but firm mouthfeel and medium body. Vague estery notes of raspberries, but although pretty good, as a whole it’s like a Bière de Garde light, less extrovert and with less appealing malt character than the top examples of the style.

From a 750 ml. brown bottle with what I am guessing is a bottling date since I know this was a new bottle, given to me by a liquor store manager/friend who wanted my opinion on a Belgian he just added. Sampled at a cellar temperature in a chalice. Poured a cloudy golden hued orange with a foamy white head that settled into a thin lacing, the most minimal amount of sticking, pretty standard appearance. Aromas of sulfur, grapes and apples, light sugar spices and whiffs of a fusel alcohol. Light, fizzy carbonation and a softly crisp, too soft for me, smooth light-medium bodied mouthfeel. For a tripel, I thought this was bland tasting overall, sulfur and bready, sugary pale malts, sour apple and green melon fruity, a very soft spicy hoppiness, the fusel alcohol flavor starts to show up just past the middle, and a dry yeasty and sweet malty finish, pretty much average drinkability for the tripel, nothing real stands out flavor wise from this ale. This tripel sells for $10.99 at bottle in my area, so I’m glad this was a freebie.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours golden with a small white head. Aroma of citrus, yeast, and funk. The flavor is citrus, yeast, alcohol, anf just not right. Disappointing beer.

(750ml bottle) Pours lightly hazy golden body with a small egg white head. Aroma of caramel, apple, honey, florals, and herbs. Flavor of caramel, apple, earthiness, and herb with a somewhat medicinal and metallic finish.

Bottle sampled with Beerded_one. Pours hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma of sweet malts, citrus, and yeast. Flavor is weak, sweet, yeasty, nothing good, Thin body, not a brew.

750 ml corked bottle- An aroma of spice and malts. A light yellow color. A light body. A flavor of malt and a bready yeast not much of what I think is a triple. Not a bad tasting beer but not a triple.

Yellow pale color, rather extinguished and with a light fizz. Light and dense head, discreet duration. Light scent, light aged with aromas of wine cellar, clear mildew and yeast. Simple, winy and lightly little pungent taste. Short and fading end.