Chimay Triple / Blanche (White)

Brewed by Chimay
Style: Abbey Tripel
Baileux, Belgium

Bottle. Pours a cloudy brown color with a decent off white head. Aromas and flavors of clove and banana. A fair bitter edge to it. Medium bodied. Not bad.

An excellent beer, I slightly plain in appearance. Taste is a high point, I only slightly prefer the grand reserve. Drinkability is deceptively high for the alcohol content. Chimay is really one of The few brews that you can never go wrong with. Would order again.

Definitely my favourite example of the style to date. Terribly smooth with just the right tiny bit of hop bite in it.

Think I prefer blue to this one. The wife loves these and likes the blue more as well. Yet to try red.

Pours hazy golden/orange with thin white head. Aroma of bananas and yeast. Taste is fairly spicy with yeast and a slight hop bite. Highly carbonated. Decent.

Enjoyed from an 11.2oz bottle in a tulip glass. The beer pours a surprinsingly dark amber color, far more than most triples in terms of SRM. However, the darker color evidences its worth in the aroma, as the beer shows malt first, perhaps Munich or a heavy hand with Aromatic. A nice melange of yeast-derived esters add some dark fruits to that mix. The palate is malty up front, tasting almost of a Vienna lager. Malt carries through the mid- and late palate, complimented by a nice hop balance, and supporting fruity (but not over-the-top) yeast notes. The finish is neutral to slightly sweet, but certainly not cloying. As I work through the glass, I am greeted by a pleasant warmth that is welcomed, even on a warm day. Overall, perhaps a bit on the edge in terms of style, but perhaps right were a true tripel should be.

Bottle. Poured a cloudy yellow color and smelled strongly of yeast. Tasted yeasty and a slightly citrusy.

On draught at Birreria Paradiso. Cloudy amber orange, aroma of raw pizza dough. Flavor had hints of orange peel and clove.