De Drie Ringen Tripel

Brewed by De Drie Ringen
Style: Abbey Tripel
Amersfoort, Netherlands

On tap at Arendsnest. Murky golden colour, dense white head. Aroma of sweet malts, fresh grass, yeast, some mint-like aroma. Flavour is bready malts, alcohol, fruit, yeast, sweet, light bitter finish, a bit medicinal. Almost medium bodied.

Although sold as a triple it really is a blond at 6.5% alc. The appearance is as you would expect from a triple, but the first nose gives no tones as well as the first sip. The beer has a light sweet rather bland taste with no real after bitters as should be expected. A beer I will not remember.

Brewery tap. Blonde and very cloudy. The beer is, I think, still very young. Delicate mandarin aroma and flavor, attacted by some yeast character. Fruity sweetish flavor. The ABV seems much lower than it really is. The beer is smooth and goes down very easy. Hint of hops. Not oozing with quality, but certainly pleasant.

On tap @ Wildeman. Aroma is lactic and butter. Hazy, orange coloured, good lace. Taste is sweet, lactic and butter. some citrus, some yeast. Not good.

Draught Good yellowish head, slowly receding above hazy orange beer. Honey, sweet malts and greenmalt. Fruity, very citrussy taste. I have a (root)spicey bitterness in the finish. Medium bodied, reasonably dry, some alcohol traceable and slightly burning MF. Not a bad triple. Bit spiced but true enought to style.