Watou Tripel

Brewed by St. Bernard Brouwerij
Style: Abbey Tripel
Watou, Belgium

Pours hazy dark yellow with lots of small floating yeast and a thin head. It has a startlingly sour citrus and banana aroma. The flavor is not as sour as the aroma suggests. The malt and yeast flavors combine pretty well with the fruit notes. I couldn’t stop thinking bananas for some reason. It’s good, but in my opinion not as good as the St. Bernardus Tripel. It just seems to be lacking something that their other Tripel nails.

Poured a cloudy yellow-orange color with a small white head. Sweet malt aroma with some spicey notes, some toffee and candied citrus. Slightly dry, sweet taste throughout. Good brew

Bottle. Pours clear golden yellow with an enormous creamy white head. Aroma has a milky feel to it. Lots o yeast, caramel, spices and a little caramel. Flavour is not sour as other tripels, quite sweet with a clear malty presence, some barn, some coriander, a little vanilla and a non-existent alchol-feel. Finish is slightly warming. Great.

I hardly rate any beer any more but this one was pretty damn good. I love the smell and the taste. Thats all

OK, I admit that I’m surprised that no one rated this before. It’s great, probably my favorite from St. Bernardus. Nose of orange blossom and apricot brandy, alcohol, sweet malts, bread and yeast, and even a touch of Cascade (ok, that’s probably just the orange blossom fooling me). Cloudy dark orange, huge head, explodes out of the bottle Orange, bread and yeast, mustiness in the flavor. Mouth is a big full Belgian. Really quite good. Noy cheap, but great value compared to the Hugh Maolne I had last night.

Tulip glass. Pale yellow/gold color with minimal head for a triple. Honey champnage aroma. Mild taste of malt, fruit, and yeast with a sparring amount of hops. Needs more spice.

Bottle, Brouwershof, Watou, West Flanders, Belgium, 26-06-07 Hazy amber colour, my notes are then a bit sketchy and say ’dirty pear juice’ which I assume that I meant on the nose? Typical sweet spicyness but with yeast and warming alcohol carrying through.

750 ml bottle. Cloudy yellow colour. Very tall fluffy white head that clongs to the glass. Head falls down quickly. Lemony wheat aroma. Rich malty and clean aroma. Wheaty flavours. Quite dry finish.