La Trappe Tripel

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

Dark golden with a large white head. Very sweet, spicy fruit aroma. Taste is bitter-sweet, peachy fruit. Coriander listed in ingredients: not sure if I picked it up. A persistent bitter aftertaste. A multi-faceted alcoholic brew, utterly beguiling.

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.

Pours a firey apricot color w/ a full, semi creamy froth. Great head retention finally reducing to a full, thick canopy. Aroma of granite and dried bananas, peach, and citrus. Full nectar w/ ample residual effers. Mildly sweet w/ strong flavors. Malty w/ a persistant peach pit bittering from start to finish. Secondary favors of dried apricot, peach, banana cream, vanilla bean, and candy rocks. As she warms a little honeycomb comes through. The finish is bittered perfectly leaving some lingering malt complexities. Overall: a stronger flavored brew w/ perfect Tripel character and a mild sweetness.

Bottle. Pours a lovely slight hazy orange. Head is made up of lots of small milky white bubbles with a distinct creaminess on the top - a little lacing. Aroma is nice and fruity. A milky feel blending with a yeasty edge. Very full mouthfeel, very creamy for the style. Flavour is very complex. Begins with a powerful vinious edge, then a general sweetness comes through. It blends a nice spicyness with the malty sweetness and a tone of alcohol. Apples, berries, plums, raisins and a touch of oranges. Great!

A truly fine Abbey ale ale as are most. A golden ale with a hint of red. Very malty flavour with a strong yeast note and a hint of fruit.

Pours a golden amber wih a thin foamy white head. Fruity aroma consisting of cherries, apple, honey, innamon and alcohol. Sweet tasting with hints of cheries, honey, apple, pear, maltiness and alcohol. A nice balance of sweetness, maltiness and alcohol with a slighlty bitter finish.

No 221
Rated: 18.09.2007
Bottle bright brown and a bit greenish, 750 ml
Appearance: Pours hazy orange, bright breakfest tea with the drop of milk like colour, carbonation of body is mild and gentle. head is dreamy in colour, medium to large and frothy, head has a fair lacing, head is mostly diminishing, in body colour there is something like the addition of a juice from wildberries or strawberries. Beer is medium to full bodied.
Aroma: Cookie, yeasty, fresh fruits, milk, honey, coriander, a sweet aroma of flowers, a hint of alcohol that is decreases to a minimum and very well build in considering it’s 8% content. Aroma is very complex, hints of grains, wheat grains, wood, strawberries, fructosis, a hint of hoppy nose but weak, the same with the carbonation, a bit bready (white bread), very weak barley malt aroma, a hint of grapes, butterscotch, brown sugar, very mild, light, gentle.
Flavour: Strong, full bodied, you can feel alcohol warmth on palate, texture is wattery but the taste is syrupy like. Very distinctive grainy taste on palate, like bread, alcohol is very well build in and is present with its warmth on the back of the palate and the throat, while the fruity taste develops on palate and in nose breath, hoppy nose, aroma is sweeter than flavour, bread accid, very intense, full and rounded, cognac, the yeast, fruit and sugar content lower than in Grombergen Tripel but have the bready taste is stronger and more decisive. Light bitter, light accidic and light sweet. Generally, very well balanced and rounded taste. Finish duration is long. Hoppy nose.
Palate: Body is full, texture wattery-syrupy, carbonation is soft on palate but the beer seems harsh. Finish feel is bready, alcoholic, fruity.

12 oz bottle served in a tulip. Pour was a dark copper with two fingers of slightly off-white head. Nose is candied sugar, apples, pears, grapes, and Belgian yeast. Taste is Belgian yeast, apples, and a bit of sugar. This beer comes off much light than I expected. It is quite tasty, but the fruit salad, also known as the aroma, is my favorite part.