Kasteelbier Tripel Blonde 11%

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck
Style: Abbey Tripel
Ingelmunster, Belgium

Bottle. Pours hazy gold with with a thing, lasting white head. Aroma of hops, malt, and grapes/ Medium body with a crisp, bitter finish. Great tripel.

Not cool at all. I swore I had rated this and is no here. So I am doing this from a very foggy memory...I remember it being average. Yeasty, smooth and soft. Some nutmeg and clove but mainly overshadowed by the 11% something alcohol. Kind of sweet on the end but that could be due to the alcohol.

Not the best Tripel out there. Pretty dry and bland in the flavor. Not much fruitiness at any point in the beer. I guess its good if you like big alcohol beers with no alcohol presence, but you could do better than this.

Clear, clean, plain tripel with a really smooth mouth and not a lot of drama in flavor or spice. Just enough sour spice to remind you it’s a tripel and nor Bud Light. A session beer, but not at 11% abv!

Wasn’t terribly impressed with this as a Tripel. It was really dry, didn’t have a whole lot of fruitiness to it. Alcohol wasn’t a player, but that didn’t add any plusses. Nothing special.

Pretty tame, as far as Tripels go. The flavors are good, but unremarkable, lacking any strong yeast or spice notes. Strangely, there wasn’t much of an alcohol player, despite the very high ABV. Normally, I wouldn’t mind, but given the lack of great flavor to begin with, such added elements might have improved this beer.

Bottle. Aroma; Yellow, clear with a small white head. Aroma; Malt, orange and alc. Flavor; the same, a really powerfull but nice beer.

750ml bottle marked 4/23/08 from Bristol Farms in Westwood. Pours with a large white head over a near clear golden body. Aroma of cork, biscuit, pepper, sweet bread, alcohol, pear and candi sugar. Taste is alcohol, bread, candi sugar and pear. Lively carbonation and dry. Pretty run of the mill strong triple.