Steenbrugge Tripel

Brewed by Brouwerij Palm
Style: Abbey Tripel
Steenhuffel, Belgium

33 bottle, thanks to MiP. Pours clear yellow with a dense white head. Light fruity and yeasty head, light spice note. Flavour is mellow yeasty, light spiced and solid light caramel malt. Goes into a mellow yeasty and light sweet finish.

Bottle. High fluffy but very long lasting wihte head. Slightly hasy (or my glass is dirty hi hi) yellow body. Sweet barley malt aroma with bisquite notes as well. Barley also dominateing the flavor whith is otherwise relatively sweet. Hard to beleive that the alcohol percantage should be 8.5%. Well hidden, Good. Low carbonation and long barley aftertaste.

(Draught at The Rover, Gothenburg, 1 Aug 2007) Golden, pale amber colour with huge white head. Fruity, spicy notes with bread spices and a hint of almonds. Fruity, spicy taste with notes of apricots and grainy, spicy notes of "finska pinnar", bicarbonate and baking-powder. Average tripel with some strange grainy characteristics.

From Hopdevil in Zagreb. Annoyingly sugary, powder sugar infested nose where algae and herbal qualities are registered besides the dull, sour bread yeastiness. Dull orange pale colour, strongly effervescent, but never making that head quite lasting. Taste continues in the same poor vein: orange juice, tart pie crust and baking powder hints, all stuck together by this attacking carbonation. A rare case of a very bad tripel.

Draught at the Rover, Göteborg. Pale golden, white head. Yeasty, malty aroma, some fruit, apples and grapes. Malty flavor with yeast, wheat and grainy notes.

Pathetic. truely feeble, little flavour at all. So completely anonymous, that calling it ’tripel blonde’ implies that the makers know it doesn’t carry any of the alledged alcohol feel in the beer. Claims bottle refermentation, but how it that possible with the infinitesimal whisp of yeast in the bottle. With the best efforts to get this into the beer, still looked crystal clear and has none of the flavour development of a beer with secondary fermentation. Misleading label credits the beer to fake brewery name rather than the real brewers. Waste of my money.

Draught at the Rover, Göteborg, Sweden. Deep hazy golden with a medium creamy head. Malty aroma with some yeast and earthy notes, and some grassy hoppiness. Medium bodied and very smooth. Slightly sweet, with a moderate bitterness.

Bottle at the Hopdevil. Poured an orange-golden body with a tiny white head that went really fast. The nose is weak, bit vinuous and sourish. The taste is... mouth puckeringly dry, bit malty, but weak and an even weaker hopiness. Grainy. Nothing distinct, nothing special. Kinda pleasant but watery and dull.