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La Trappe Tripel

Percentile
92
overall
Brewed by De Koningshoeven (Bavaria - Netherlands)
Style: Abbey Tripel

Tilburg, Netherlands

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
7373.58/5.03.58/5.08%88.2Trappist glass, Tulip
Commercial Description:
A dark Trappist ale with a fruity, bittersweet taste.
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 bu11zeye (5490), Frisco, Texas, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/515/20
Dec 2, 2004  
(750ml bottle) Pours an orangish-amber body with a small white head. Aroma of oranges, apricots, and bananas. Nice malt and dark fruit flavor. Soft palate.


 CaptainCougar (5488), Rockville, Maryland, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Jul 31, 2007  
Pours a transparent orange bronze with a thin, spotty-lacing off-white head. Aroma of sweet caramel and light fruits with a hint of biscuits and bready yeast. Body starts fairly full and caramely malty sweet with a decent light fruity complexity and some brown sugar. Finishes smooth with a hint of warmth. A pretty decent tripel.


 hopscotch (5483), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/511/20
Oct 11, 2003  
Crystal clear, deep amber ale. Even though it's not fitting for the style, I like the color. Medium-sized, creamy, khaki-colored head. The aroma is of spiced pears. The flavor is of pears, earth and oak. Perfectly-balanced. Medium-bodied with a watery mouthfeel and mild carbonation. Short, astringent, dry finish. A pretty good brew, but boring. About as complex as a seven-year-old boy. Also, I really don't like pears.


 duff (5475), Surrey, Greater London, England
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/105/512/20
Jul 5, 2002    Updated: Jan 17, 2003
Orange to brown in colour, decent head, but fades. Sweet and spicy, syruppy texture, and a touch salty, perhaps a bit too much alcohol, kind of easy to drink however, not overly interesting.


 Bov (5455), Bienne, Switzerland
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 23, 2003  
slightly hazy red-amber colour, few foam, candy sugar, perfumy with notes of red fruits, a bit plastic like, full-bodied with a bitter spicy alcohol finish - artificial; by far no more what it was in the past


 ThomasE (5178), Copenhagen, Denmark
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/102/511/20
Jan 28, 2005  
Hazy deep amber colour with small white head. Sweet aroma with hints of berries. Malty flavor with some sweet notes. Very thin palate. Different from most other tripel’s.


 JorisPPattyn (5172), Antwerpen, Belgium
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Aug 28, 2004  
Pale-ish amber-gold; thin but relatively stable off-white head. Strong roasted/caramel nose, obviously lots of white candy sugar. Sharp roasted, even burnt taste. Short bitterness, and a flavour of grapes on liqueur, getting sweet after some time, and more so with warming up. Quite dry, well-bodied. Alcohol obvious, something meaty in the aftertaste. It’s a bit harsh realy, not as subtle by half as a Westmalle, but still a quite good tripel. But my heart bleeds seeing what used to be real trappist, and still aspires to, in this vulgar Standard Dutch 30cl bottle, as a bl**d’n Heineken.


 Hildigöltur (5109), København, Denmark
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/515/20
Jan 18, 2003  
Amazing head. It's huge and frothy and tastes really good. Spicy aroma with a slight yeastiness. The flavour is fruity and rather sweet.



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