De Dolle Dulle Teve 10º (Mad Bitch)

Brewed by De Dolle Brouwers
Style: Abbey Tripel
Diksmuide, Belgium

Dark blond with thin foamy head. Aroma is a bit funky, bread-like and yeasty. Flavour is similar with some lively spice on the tongue (coriander, clove?). Mouthfeel is quite thiick and syrupy although overall the beer is not overly sweet.

Cloudy dark golden color with a large cream colored head. Aroma is of honey, buttermilk, dough and yeast. Taste is of yeast, brown sugar, honey and alcohol.

10 degrees Celsius. Slightly sweet tripel with a bitter undertone. Too bitter and not the finest hoptones to my opinion. Decent head, golden brown. A nice beer but not well balanced. A bit of a common tripel.

Draught at Max’s 36h of Belgium. Gold color with a white head. The nose is yeasty, with banana and some spicy hops. Distinctly yeasty flavor, fruity, and a lightly sweet honey flavor in the end. Some alcohol is also noticeable, along with a spicy,earthy hop bite. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. A solid tripel that has a nice spicy hops quality to it.

aroma-yeast, banana, pepper/spice; light and creamy, somewhat lively palate; bittersweet/balanced flavor reflects the aroma while there is a well-hidden alcohol note; great stuff! and not mad nor a bitch.

Bottle @ De Kelk, Bruges. Pours amber to orange with yeast particles. The head is medium-sized and creamy. The aroma is fruity (orange, grae fruit), it has wine gum-like malts and sharpish spciness. Long spicy finish with fine hoppy aroma. The flavor is very complex. It has fruity maltiness and medium bitterness. The yeast gives strange, fruity aroma. There´s lost of everythig. The palate is soft, smooth and sticky bitter in the finish. A bit strange but very enjoyable beer. It has somehow cleaning and fresh effect inside the mouth. Great stuff.

Pours murky brown with a vanishingly small white head, looks like pond water. Nose is a revelation... sweet, caramel malts, molasses, apricot, dates, and a hint of tripel yeast spiciness at the end. The spice hits first in the flavor, peppery and coriander. Apricot, belgian candy, dates in the middle, spice comes back at the end. Nice, rounded, bubbly mouthfeel. All the flavors come together in the aftertaste. Extremely good.

Bottle. Pours hazy orange with a huge stand of off-white head. The aroma is spicy and fruity, with notes of apricot, coriander, zest, and a very pleasant floral note reminiscent of rose hips. The flavor is dry yeastiness at first sip. Then kick in some subtle spicy notes, coriander, white pepper, maybe a little bit of ginger. A smooth, fruity, dried apricot malt profile lingers in the background. It finishes dry and warm with alcohol and a very distant grassy hop note. The alcohol and spice sticks around for quite some time in the aftertaste. Pretty good beer.