Name: Kasteel Triple
Date: 09/06/2008
Mode: Draft
Source: Brick Store Pub

Appearance: clear gold, huge creamy off white head, lots of solid patterned lace,
Aroma: sweet bready and yeasty malt aroma with lots of spicy character,
Flavor: rich sweet malt flavor, lots of spicyness, nice bready character, the sweetness and spicyness are in good balance, light bitterness rises out of the spices for a light bitter finish,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: /10
Score: **+/4

Bottle 33cl. Pours a clear golden colour with a nice foamy head. Aroma is that of oranges and some other fruits mixed in. Taste is also oranges, but can also detect banana. A good abbey tripel.

Sour yeasty slightly grassy noise. Lots of carbonation somewhat hazy and light in color. Dense lacing. Sour taste with a bitter finish. Heavy on alcohol. Delightful mouth feel with a medium body.

Bottle. Clear golden beer with a huge frothy white head that diminishes slowly. Fruity aroma with some yeast, light hoppy notes, citrus hints and spice (some pepper in there). Flavor is slightly sweetish at first with light bready notes, later gets drier with some yeast and fruits, and finishes with rather bitter spicy hops and some alcohol. Medium-bodied. Not too bad, just nothing exciting and a bit too alcoholic.

Wow! Some powerful stuff. Very light straw color with tons of carbonation and a big white fluffy head poured into a Chimay goblet. Very spicy compared to many tripels with lots of sweet alcohol burn. definitely a sipper. Some tripels are almost like session beers in taste, not this one but still very nice. It is an over the top Chimay.