Chimay Triple / Blanche (White)

Brewed by Chimay
Style: Abbey Tripel
Baileux, Belgium

This rating is on a bottle approximately five years. Pours dark orange / bronze with some floaties and a decent beige head head for the age. The aroma has musty fruit and the malt has taken on vinious traits. There is also earthy toffee and candi sugar. Medium / full body with minor, but noticeable carbonation. The flavor starts with sweet earthy malt, nuttiness, caramel and honeysuckle. The finish is a bit spicy and zippy. This is quite good considering the age on it. I will have to put an addition to the current rating when I have a fresh bottle.

Nice white head, almost fizzy. Orange colour. A hoppy, fruity aroma. Strong but very drinkable.

11.2 oz bottle - Pours a hazy, light amber with a moderate head that soon fades to thin. It has a citrus and yeast aroma. The flavor mixes the sweetness and sour citrus of a Belgian very well. It’s bubbly, medium bodied and smooth. The 8% ABV is well masked and the finish is crisp. A bit more intensity and complexity would have suited me, but this is certainly a high quality ale.

Amber with a thick white head. Rich dried fruit smell with a slight malt finish. Full fruit finish with a minty after finish. Very pleasant as most trappist beers.

Aroma very orangey, fruity and spicy, also laden with malt. Beer is sort of a medium golden amber color, a little darker than I was expecting, actually. Very generous head. Flavor starts off with some sweet malt tripel-type flavors, but quickly some spicy flavors and even a bit of hops are thrown into the mix. Mouthfeel is a bit on the dry side, body is medium. Finish has a touch of sweetness, but overall is very citrusy, peppery and spicy. Quite a different Tripel than my mind had formed a gastric picture of, but certainly tasty. Nice lacing, too. Pretty good! Lacking a certain degree of complexity that I was sort of hoping for, however, likely bred by the excellence of the ubiquitous Blue and Red.

Hazy orange colour with large white head.Aroma is spicey and sweet with some citrus flavor.Bitter mouth feels and note of yeast.Really nice brew.

Corked 750. Huge skunky odor. This stuff even tastes skunked. I didn’t think skunkiness was possible in a brown bottle beer produced from hop extract. I couldn’t even come close to finishing this one, so this is a mercy rating.

Poured cloudy gold with big white head. Good head retention. Grainy spicey aroma with a hint of dark fruit present too. Lovely smooth full body. Nice simple wheaty flavour with a spicey clove-like aftertaste. Hint of citrus in taste too.