Chouffe Houblon Dobbelen IPA Tripel

Brewed by Brasserie d’Achouffe (Moortgat)
Style: Abbey Tripel
Achouffe, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

Tried sample of ~150 ml at Brugge Beerfest. Exactly what the description says - when IPA meets Tripel. Masterfully done. I’m not a huge IPA fan, but this one is extremely well balanced and just crisp enough.

Purchased for around $10 at Charles Street Liquors in Boston, MA. Poured into a Dogfish Head Signature glass at around 45 Degrees F from the cellar. A - Poured a HUGE head! 4-6 fingers even with the glass sideways. I tried to keep the fizz low but, even without shaking, the foam came from the glass as soon as I cracked open the bottle. Very pale beer. Light, hazy and very beautiful to look at. S - Honey, vanilla, crispy and just a lot of floral and citrus characters. I’m getting ginger as well. T - More honey, grapefruit, very light woodiness. tons of hop coming through and a very satisfying floral character. All around beautiful beer! M - Medium bodied beer. Tons of carbonation. With a mouth swish, the honey and floral notes just come alive! O - I’d stock up on this beer by the case but it’s best as fresh as possible so I only buy a bottle at a time when I come across it. Far better than La Chouffe. This beer is wonderful.

330 ml bottle bought @ Bierzwerg.de. Pours slightly cloudy pale golden with a big frothy fizzy white head that slowly dissipates while leaving some trace on the glass. Smell is sweet, fruity and spicy with caramel, pine, grass, lemon balm, gooseberries, yeasty esters and alcohol. Taste is sweet, quite bitter and slightly metallic with grass, pine, wood, resin, grapefruit, the white stuff on an orange, belgian yeast and alcohol. Finish is dry and bitter with grass and lemon balm.

Malt, grass, and yeast in the aroma, more like a German beer than a Belgian ale. Flavor starts tripel sweet with some citrus, following with some nice hop bitterness. Not your standard tripel, but really good.

Bottle at Tilt, Oslo. Pours slightly hazy golden with a white head. Very hoppy aroma with malt and Belgian yeast. Nice and rich combining the best of two worlds; IPA and Belgian ale. Fruity with a nice dry, hoppy and bitter finish.

sampled on tap pours a bright yellow with a frothy white head. Aromas of sweet candy sugar up front some light fruit in the backround. Flavor is very sweet breifly cut with a touch of bitter which makes this so tasty. Body is medium full and finish leaves that belguim sweetness

33cl bottle. Golden coloured with a frothy and large white head. Aroma is slightly spicy, yeasty amd hoppy. Flavour is slightly sweet at the beginning, with citrus hints, traces of yeast and floral hops are present. the final is moderate bittery. Carbonation is medium. Body is medium.

Wonderful pale straw cloudy with little or no lacing(1 finger head). Light sour with grassy pine aroma a hint of sweetness. Taste was crisp with champagne-like with balance dry finish. Strange brew with 9% abv different Belguim...