Lamoral Degmont Tripel

Brewed by Van Den Bossche
Style: Abbey Tripel
St. Lievens-Esse/Herzele, Belgium

33 cl bottle.Pours cloudy light brown with a huge frothy creamy off-white head. Sweet malty aroma, yeast and spice.Moderate sweet malty taste, with a dark touch at the end, like dark english caramel, easy towards the end, no sign of Mr. Hop here.

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Clear, deep gold with a low, frothy head and high carbonation. Biscuity pilsner malt aroma with honey and fruit—maybe pears. Flavor of honey, citrus, alcohol heat, with decent hop bitterness at the finish. Ok, but too sweet and thick for a tripel.

MALTIER PALLOR ! They certainly didn’t market the bottle, so would the beer do the talking? Good start with a pumping froth and an amber tangerine liquid bubbling. Good first tastes of licquorice and floridity with a decent aftertaste but it really didn’t last, which was a shame. Average in the end

(33cl bottle) Hazy, golden colur with a big but non-persistent frothy white head. Sweet malty aroma with notes of candied fruits, nutmeg and other spices. Bitter-sweet flavour, full bodied with a moderate carbonation. Solid malt-accented taste, minimal sugary with mild notes of lemon and a rising peppery spicy touch towards the yeasty-bitter and shy hoppy finish (26.IV.09).

[1893-20081206] 1pt9.4floz bottle. Bitter lemon pip and Belgian yeast aroma with mild concrete block and leaves. Hazy, light brown orange body with a medium-lasting creamy off-white head. Bitter lemon Belgian yeast flavour has some candied evergreen leaves. Medium body. Nice tripel.
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Bottle a few months past best before date. Pours a hazy orange with large head. Light aroma of sugar, candied fruit and spices. Tastes crisp and well-carbonated, citrusy, slightly sweet, spicy-peppery, just a note of leather and funk. My bottle was nowhere near as sweet as described by others, probably because of the aging. Will have to try again fresh. Very nice funky tripel when aged.

In short: A messy sweet Belgian Strong Ale of some kind. Tasty but not cohesive
How: Bottle 330ml, about 1 year old, still before best-before date
The look: Almost clear dark golden body topped by a large beige head with medium retention
In long: Nose of peppery hops over campfire wood, intriguing. Taste is disappointing. Very sweet and the hops add a lot of spiciness to the beer and only a light bitterness or dryness. Alcohol slightly apparent. Ripe sweet apricots, ripe sweet red apples, citrus. More acidic than it should be. Finish is a biting alcoholised spicy bitterness followed by an annoying comeback of overripe sweet fruite. Certainly not bland this is rather tasty but unfortunately quite messy too, like each individual flavour elements work against each other. Don’t expect a classic Tripels here, this is a strong Belgian Ale of some kind. Gets some points for being tasty and entertaining but loses even more for being not cohesive. Amoral? I don’t know, but certainly reprehensible.