Chouffe Houblon Dobbelen IPA Tripel

One of the best tripels I’ve ever tasted to date. Hops and malts are perfectly aligned. Hints of bannana, citrus, apple and plums. Massive head with every pour. Hops have a pine grassy undertones and are also very complex.No alcohol aftertaste at all. Awesome Brew!!!

I was a little apprehensive at first. I really enjoyed Hop-it from Urthel, but I wanted to try something with a little more AIPA styled. Was I ever rewarded. Into my Duvel Tulip a vigorous and healthy carbonation fill the glass and a thick fluffy eggshell head forms and follows to the bottom. Rich golden hue with the lightness of a Belgian Golden Ale. Fresh and crisp hops emit from the foam. Non-aggresive grapefruit on the nose with notes of cloves and dry spice. The first sip reveals that the citrus is here to stay and the spice is bound to develop. A dry and hoppy fruit sail with the balanced spice and body. I rarley find aa beer that has a seamless personality and an apparant flawless construction. It’s meaty enough to hold the abv.% but refreshing enough for the first beer after work. Maybe this will be the only one of the evening. How dangerous to have a brew that is so enriching and thirst quenching. This beer is a new favorite. I depend on Tripels to be snappy and hoppy on the finish and this beer delivers with a crisp cleansing end that I can’t help but want more. If I was to ever dream of a perfect blending of these two styles dAchouffe has beaten me to it.

WOW! This brew has character. Appearance is that of diluted lemon juice. Pours a huge white canopy that just sits there, like it’s trying to protect the nectar from me. Maybe like a built in defense mechanism to ward off harmfull doers. After the froth settles it condenses into a marshmellowy substance that actually has some weight to it. Like I said, marshmellows. It’s funny because the residual froth clings in the most uncommon places. One time it clung to the top of the goblet, the next it clung to the side wall. Most of the time I found it floating around in the nectar like a cloud in a yellowy sky. When you eat the froth it has the dense consistancy of whipped egg whites. Tastes like sweet cream. MMMM. Aroma is of flowered asprin. Light in nectar weight with few residual effers. Flavors are floral with corriander, candy spice, and banana. Slightly herbacious with a faint sweet asprin finish that drys and lingers. The banana is more pronounced as it warms. The hoppsy character has a presence more like a song writer than the actual rock star. She gets the credit, be she’s in the background. Overall: this is a very complex brew. Dry, ballanced, and full of character. The alcohol is well hidden. I highly recommend this brew to the connoisseur. Connoisseurs Choice!

Fragrant piney hops and sparkling pineapple esters expand into complexity...Green, resinous hop flavor and bitterness is in love with the plentiful tropical fruit...The head is a 3-D map of an unknown planet, and the body the perfect creamy vessel for the wide flavor spectrum...A palate-expanding experience which I hope to relive regularly...

Bottle. Very carbonated, golden color, large white head with large bubbles and nice lacing. Yeasty and hoppy aroma. Lots of spice, and some fruit. Flavor is very interesting--citrus, fruit, dry finish, grassy aftertaste. Truly a unique thing, and I am very glad that argo0 insisted that I buy it.

Beatifully mild banana yellow color with a soft hazey glow. Monsterously creamy and tall compacted capping of white, decoratively fopped foam. A thick white blanket of lacing drapes itself across the glass with barely any missing stitches to it. All the while the head itself hardly moves as it unfolds into a sculpted heep of marshmellow mush. Aroma is approachable by arms length at first pour. Big and lofty with a peppery spice of yeast and dry hops backed by green bananas and old pineapple. Mellows out to be alot more rounded and mellow with a bit more of dullishly soft lemon pie. Soft, delicate, well rounded flavors ensue and fill the palate quickly with a creamy, fluffy textured delight of banana and lemon pie filling. Frothy candyness with very mild, intriguing citrusy flavors take a place well along the palate as it subsides some into a middling finish of slight peppery spice and hoppy dryness. Its savoriness superseeds its simplicity as it builds and builds with intensely mild, yet fronting froth of maltyness and mellowed candyness. It favors a light warmth late as it cinders like a fading fire with some wonderfully replaced citrus candy thats super milding and fluffy. It tends to create a billowing sense of banana, lemon, and pineaplle as it seeps into the mouth leaving nice little spicyness of pepper hops. The Saaz makes for most of its snap and strength; however is seemingly wiped away by its play of candyish pie filling sweetness. Its quite remarkable in balance through and through. The spice is never over powering, as its ABV is barely evident... ...which seems laughable. The 9% displayed on the ’Gnome sniffing hops’ label says nothing to its dimeanor... well actually, at least until late after much of the 750ml has been drained. Then watch out it’ll make ya go weee....I’m a Gnome, I’m a Gnome... The feel is amazingly soft and full with an awesomely foregiving, supple body and warmth of dulled citrusy candy-pie filling. Frothy in texture and one of the most unique in stature that I’ve not encountered before. Its like liquid pastry. I swear. Its that good. Fine drinkability. Soft, yielding, delightful, and yummyliscious. It makes a slow settled, sinking impression into the mind with wonderment and awe as it makes me ponder how a beer so good could be so dangerous. I mean it made me say something along the lines of ’savoriness’? C’mon, thats worth something, isn’t it? Wow! A lovely, lovely beer. A real winner by Chouffe!

I tried this beer on a trip to New Jersey. The beer was fantastic! I am a big hop lover, including such beers as Dogfish head (90 min and 120 min). I am usually happy with any IPA, but this one blew me away. Sometimes hops can overwelm a beer, but this one hits the perfect taste. The head is absolutely amazing, I couldn’t believe the density of it. You can physically eat it. Great job of a beer. Only problem is that i can not find it in Delaware. At least not south of the canal. If anyone finds it let me know.

Holy hell! What a fantastic combo! A traditional Belgian strong with American IPA sensibilities. The hearty orange lollipop aroma is laced with flowery resins, portending a hoppy experience. Orangy amber with a huge fluffy white head that sticks to glass like a suction cup. Well they call it Belgian lace for a reason! Moderately carbonated, this brew is sweet and bitter altogether with a complex lingering finish that skips effortlessly between tart citric zest, resiny hops and sweet candi sugar. A top pick!