BAB 401

Brewed by Brouwerij Strubbe
Style: Abbey Tripel
Ichtegem, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

send corrections   |   shelftag   |   edit barcodes   |   add pic

Towering, just off-white head over yellow-golden beer, very carbonated. Vegetable nose, pale malts, dry white candi sugar. Some citrus/citruspeel. Both pale & caramel malts, more white candi sugar, roasted & caramelized sugar. Fleeting sweetness, but maily dry, unless in the aftertaste. Some alcoholflavour and –warming. Quite slick, oily texture and quite spritzy. In the end, long sweeter aftertaste, turning sticky. Bit sweet – but seen the refermentation, heres another one that might perform better with a bit of aging.

Another beer I reviewed while in The Red Rose, Brugge during 2011. Although this isn’t a Trappist beer the bars motto/logo ‘Trappist beer, taste the silence@ Rose Red’ certainly is true: this is a lovely place to review a few beers in. Initially brewed for the ‘Brugse Autonome Bierproevers’, not sure what the 401 is about though? It was so popular it has become a regularly brewed beer and is available in other parts of Belgium now, not just in Brugge. Slight haze to the yellow body and only a small white head sits on top of brew. The smell is a typical Belgian Abbey Tripel blend of yeasts, hops and light malts. The taste is also fairly typical, hop front with fruity hints and a mild malt content to prevent the beer appearing too sour or tart. Like so many Belgian brews, this is so easy to drink, you have to check the alcohol levels to make sure you aren’t going to fall over after a mini-session of three beers or so.

#1388 draught; nose is decent peas, sweet lemon, some red grape, later mediumsweet leaves, weak elderflower, feel is mediumwatery, carb is mediumweak, taste is celery, sour apple, little soap, some sweet mellow alchohol, late medium dry vegetables

Watery, sweet, weak body. Clear yellow appearance with white head. Funk smell. Tried at the Bruges bierfest in Februari 2012 with Jess and Dave.

Sampled @ 5de Brugs Bierfestival, Brugge. This was my last beer on the festival, and after having a selection of very good beers this was a bit of a down note to end on. Not by any means a bad beer, just ... ordinary, compared to the competition.

Draft at ’t Brugs Beertje. Nice presentation, with the clear blond color and semilarge white head. But I do not like the logo. Sour aroma. Sweet and fruity flavor at the start, bitter and spicy finish.

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.