La Trappe Tripel

Brewed by De Koningshoeven (Bavaria - Netherlands)
Style: Abbey Tripel
Tilburg, Netherlands

Wow, I thought I’d had this one already. Oh well. Nice fruity aroma (orange blossom), big moderate head on weakish orange/amber body. Slightly thin but good flavors of fruit. Nice lingering finish of tannins and caramel. Quite good fora "value" beer such as this (I’ve seen it quite cheap in some beer stores).

Muddy orangey brown sewage color with hardly any head. Ugliest tripel I have seen. Cotton candy and bubble gum nose. Thin, waxy palate. Malty, tropical fruit framework. Very sweet. Quite possibly an off bottle.

750ml Bottle: Faint aroma of grains, slight caramel, light plastic, and some fruit. Poured orange in color with a tiny head that disappeared very quickly. Cloudy. Sparkling. Many large-sized particles throughout. Flavor is medium sweet. Tastes of malts, slight yeast, caramel, light spices, grains, slight butter, and slight honey. Thin, tingly texture. Average to lively carbonation. Sweet, honey, slight caramel, and sweet malt finish is lightly dry.

33 cl bottle. Yeast in bottom. Amber colour with a fine rocky head. Great aroma of toffee, some sweet caraeml and hints of dried fruit. Also great flavour of candy and caramel, that ends up with a warm feeling from the alcohol. A great tripel.

The aroma is spicy and fruity. It has plums, coriander, cloves, malt, alcohol, yeast, and bananas. The appearance is amber with a medium head. The flavor is very much like the aroma with moderate bitterness. The alcohol is well hidden but the aftertaste is a little astringent. The palate is quite thin for an Abbey Triple. Overall it’s not too shabby.

Nice cloudy orange, off white head and sheets of lace to coat the ’Triple Glass’. Pineapple, over ripe banana, malt dominate the nose. Start is sweet, the top light, the finish is slightly sour, or better yet tart, acidic, moderate carbonation and a nice hop spicy bite to finish it off.

Aroma is very yeasty, with elements of wood, caramel and fruit in the profile. Excellent ceramic bottle, tall pithy light tan head and medium peach-brown beer. Flavor is fairly dry, earthen, woody. There were some unpleasant traces of ketones, and the beer was perhaps a bit too tannic. Palate a bit acidic, with building bitter.

(Draught at Monk’s Café, Stockholm, 17 Nov) Amber colour with small, brief head. Fruity and sweet nose with dried fruit, raisins and dried apricots. Fruity taste with dried apricots, raisins, cherries in brandy and marzipan. Balanced sweetness with a spicy bitterness in the finish. Nice one.