Affligem Tripel

Brewed by Brouwerij Affligem / De Smedt (Heineken)
Style: Abbey Tripel
Opwijk, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

Bottle and the Cowboys blow. Poured a slightly dark yellow, gold color with a medium to large sized white head. A large amount of lacing. Aroma of wheat, citrus, must, alcohol, spice and bread. Bursting with flavor. Sweeter than expected with a touch of alcohol. Belgian sugar, wheat, yeast, fruit, banana, with some light spicing in the finish. Also a flavor that I can only liken to vanilla, but not quite. Very drinkable and tasty. I love the style and love this one. I am trying to try all the Belgians that I have been neglecting. Have another beers of theirs in the fridge.

UPDATED: JAN 19, 2009 Love this beer. I have probably had it a half dozen times before, I thought I had rated it already. Oh, well. I really prefer to rate beers I have gotten close to already. Looks real nice, plenty of carbonation and it dances while it forms a large and lasting white head. Aroma is spicy. Mild. Flavor is sweet and assertive, and the mouth feel is quite playful due to high effervescence. Nice beer, and a regular drink. [Well it was a regular drink until the only local store that sells it went out of business. Damn it.]

Pours a faintly cloudy yellow colour with a finger thick off white head. Nose is light and fruity. Nice citrus notes, and some hints of spices. Very sweet in the mouth, plenty of strong caramel and crystal malts, maybe. Or perhaps that fancy belgian sugar. Either way, very nice. Some of the fruity notes are present in the mouth, both light and dark. And there is a distinct spicy note in the finish. Not spicy like pepper, more spicy like nutmeg maybe, or something like that. It does not feel thin, but it does not feel thick and creamy either, though I do not know if it should, really. Nice Tripel.

330cl bottle: slightly hazy orange with nice creamy head. Fresh orange peel and spice dominate the nose. Sweet malt and yeast materialise pleasantly in the taste and hide the alcohol well. Sticky mouthfeel; superbly balanced. Solid all around.

From bottle. Spicy coriander. Clear golden colour with a decent white head. Spicy in flavour, herb and mixed spices. Tangy. The spice hits you again in the finish.

Good size and lasting white head on a slightly hazy dull golden body. Sweet aroma that is also spicey and hints of citrus. Taste is good, smooth and full, a little banana, candi sugar, soft pepper(alcohol) on the finish. Well crafted beer.

A clear orange colored beer, with a big foamy white head. The aroma of malts, fruits, citrus and hops. The taste is fresh fruity like citrus with malts. There are spices of coriander and it has some flowers. The aftertaste is bittersweet.

Large frothy head,good carbonation,in a gold coloured ale.Aroma clove coriander,malt,wheat,yeast.Flavour coriander,clove a very rewarding malt taste.Banana,flavour with a note of ginger.At 9.5 % alcohol is well hidden by strong flavours and good ones.Finish malt,spicy mild bitter.