Chouffe Houblon Dobbelen IPA Tripel

Brewed by Brasserie d’Achouffe (Moortgat)
Style: Abbey Tripel
Achouffe, Belgium

Hazed and pale pulpy apricot in color with a root beer float-like cone pillowing out the tulip, with a huge glacial drift of a sudsy white for the head. Sugary scarlet lime meets a honey glazed, lemon-meringue graham motif as the matter channels up the nose. Lilies and lilacs give a ginger sweet aromatic herbaceous anthem. Cool effervescence is met with a clean cottony banana complex and a bitter honey coated hop cone flavor. Smooth and complex, with generally a thicker than normal stream. Honey grahams are enhanced with squeezed daffodil juice to create a waxy gloss on the palate. Clover and coriander impart a dry earthen scratch, coupling with the dry, bitter and enzymatic alpha acids. Cotton blossoms get caught in a hop field with marigolds and spruce compounds. Cherry rose bitterness pursues post sip with stark enzymes under nectar-infused butter crème and a hint of lemon-lime tart sweetness underneath and over-top.

Cloudy bright golden/yellow with plenty of floaties as I made my way to the end of the bottle. Huge rocky white head, made of tiny carbonation bubbles, great lacing, leaves the entire glass coated in film. Great aroma of mostly spicy-floral hops, faint citrus/lemon detectable, yeasty bread, candy sugar and malt character much like the bam biere. Bready malt in the initial flavor is quickly overtaken by citrus hops and candi sugar. As it warms gets a tad harsh in the finish, with a spicy hop and warming alcohol bite. Carbonation cleans palate somewhat, leaving only hop bitterness for aftertaste. Would score even better (4.4-4.5) without the harsh finish.

Excellent beer. Pours a mirky yellow with an extremely strong rocky white head. Aroma is fragrant exotic hops and yeast. Flavor is also very exotic, with a great blend of hops and yeasty goodness like I’ve never tasted, very good.

Bottle. golden hazy colour with a huge white head. Heavy hoppy aroma with notes of yeast and spices. Great beer.

Hazy straw pour with a great head that pours huge and recedes into a mound of thick foam. The nose is floral perfume, light with a mild undercurrent of fresh orange and tangerine. The dry body is full of fruity esthers and piney hops. The spritzy carbonation helps move things along. Lots of bitter citrus - lemon zest, orange peel - layered with sweet, bready malt. Light and refreshing, this is real drinkable. Kinda hard to believe it is 9%...

This beer pours a cloudy yellow with a great big fizzy white head, which emits a profound yeasty/hoppy nose that really gets the tastebuds primed for action. The nose is intensely pine resin and grapefruit with fruity yeast coming in a close second. Flavors are initially the obvious PNW type hopping...pine/resin/grapefruit/perfume/etc. The bready malts linger somewhat in the shadows, but are robust enough to keep the hops anchored. Interesting fruity yeastiness adds an exotic subtext of odd flavors and complexities. Pretty well hidden big ABV as well. Very well done brew that would pair well with a wide variety of foods...but for me, the spicier the better!

Pale orange with HUGE white head like a dollop of whipped cream. Taste is as advertised... it’s an IPA plus a belgian tripel, and it’s darn good. Well worth the $8/24oz

re-rate: hazy gold with a large whipped white head. yeasty, grass, hops, basement funky aroma. flavor has lots of sweet creamed corn, yeast, hops, marshmallows. awesome stuff. i really must have had a bad bottle the first time around. still not as good as tripel karmeliet but pretty close. now.. wheres that nice chouffe?!?! 7/8/06 lots of alcohol in aroma. some yeast and hops too. slightly hazy gold with no head (i think i got a bad bottle). very hoppy and bitter with some sweet yeasty tripel qualities, but i really don’t see what the big deal is. i will definitly have to re-rate this. 6/2/8/3/13