BAB 401

Brewed by Brouwerij Strubbe
Style: Abbey Tripel
Ichtegem, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

Bright blond colour. Aroma is a bit of sour yeast. This comes through in the flavour too. Texture is quite smooth but feels a bit too watery. Aftertaste is slightly medicinal.

draft sample @ 5de Brugs Bier festival. Dorée, col blanc épais. I guess a warming palate when you are drinking this outside and it’s -12°c. Houblon et malt amer restant dans une lignée typique belge. Ça se laisse boire, mais sans plus. Pour moi, le profile avait un côté diacetyl assez industriel pour un fini amer houblonné et malt.

Pours a hazy medium yellow. Aroma is lightly malty, hoppy, yeasty. Flavor is moderately sweet, highly alcoholic, citrus.

light sour aroma,yellow,hazy, white foam, lightly bitter, lightly sour, light body, soft carbonation, light creamy.light bitter finish.

Dark yellow coloured and hazy. Has a white head, creamy and fully lasting. Aroma of straw, hay, faint yeasty, light bread. Flavor starts light sweet and finish heavy bitter. Dry texture and soft to flat carbonation. Lightly astringent.

21/07/2011 75cl bottle @ home - BB: 2012 (2011-342)

Pretty cloudy yellow to light orange beer, creamy white head, solid and bit adhesive. Aroma: candi sugar, spicy hops, cookies, orange zest. MF: ok carbon, full body. Taste: fruity start, bitter hops, oranges, some fruits, sugar, citrus. Aftertaste: little citrus, zest, candi sugar, oranges again. Looks like the beer is starting to age, but it’s still holding. Probably much less hoppy than it used to be.

330ml bottle at Cambrinus. White, lacing-head. Yellow coloured body. Smell of sweet hoppy fruits. Honey sweet with fruity hops in flavour. Spiced hops towards the ending. Some alcohol to the tail. Rather tasty (Brugge, 03.05.2011).

Bottle at yespr. Hazy golden coloured with a medium sized white head. Sweet aroma of caramel, spices and yeast. Sweet flavour of caramel, spices, liquorice and hops with notes of alcohol. Spicy and warming alcoholic finish.