Chimay Triple / Blanche (White)

Brewed by Chimay
Style: Abbey Tripel
Baileux, Belgium

33 cl. bottle. Warm golden with a nice and lasting head. The aroma has notes of yeast, citrus and alcohol. The mouthfeel is full and prickly. The flavour has notes of alcohol, a lot of citrus, malt, sweetness and yeast. I by far prefer Tripel Karmeliet, or from Maredsous or Westmalle.

Golden amber colour with a nice white head. Aroma of malt and fruity citrus. Flavour has a good fruitiness, toasted maltiness, good hoppiness and some bitterness in the end.

Bottle. Golden color with a big white head. Fruity aroma and a spicy taste. Medium body.

a firm, creamy, long-lasting head. Strong aroma of hops and citrus. Also hops and citrus in the dry taste, combined with a slight tartness. Long hopbitter finish. A real, complex, trappist ale, maltier and easier to drink than Orval and Westmalle tripel. Re-rate from tap, Café de Nieuwe Roos Ootmarsum: I’ve boosted the rating from 3.8 to 4.3. Sweeter than the bottled version, almost honeyish, but with the raw hoppiness and the long lingering hoppy finish. Maybe the bottled version is a bit more complex, but the tap version has a much more appealing taste.

A Mes rate: Tap @ PBF. A freebie from my good old pal Gustien at the trappist tent. What a great guy! Ok I will not rattle on about this one. People will do it much more justice than me. Great all rounder. Touch of the Orvals about it but only very slight. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLONG and excelent finish. A great tripel.

Pale orange golden colour with good white head. Caramel and fruit in the aroma. Quite hoppy and vinious but still fruity sweet.

Chimay has been one of my staple beers for a few years now - cheaper and easy to get in PA. 11.2 oz bottle. Poured a medium hazy amber color with a large tanish head. Fruity, citric and yeasty aromas and tastes with light spices. Peppery/spice finish. Fizzy body.

750mL: Golden orange hue, long-lasting 1cm white head, light yeast deposit. Very dry aroma with far less events happening than moinette blonde. Light alcohol touch provides a rather heating character, very herbal, moderately hoppy, grassy. Decent honeyish malt base on the tongue though it fades into an extremely dry finish. This wants to be westmalle tripel a bit too much for its own good, but it doesn’t even come close in the mouthfeel department where this one seems a bit overcarbonated, bubbly even and medium bodied at most. It certainly has an irony quality to it, or at least very mineralic, which I sometimes appreciate, but it didn’t seem to fit with the alcohol in here. Finish is hoppy, salty. Decent take on the style.