Chouffe Houblon Dobbelen IPA Tripel

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Bottle. Pours yellow hazy with yeast. Big white head. Aroma is hoppy, malty and spicy. Taste is bitter and malty. Long bitter aftertaste. Very smooth and refreshing.

A golden beer with sediment floating around under a whipped cream like head. The aroma is sweet with lots of spices and malt notes. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of citrus and spices, the notes of spices grows in intensity towards the end, which is quite dry. An OK Belgian ale, but I had expected much more hops in it.

(Bottle 75 cl) Pours a cloudy golden with a tall, white head leaving laces. Aroma of yeast and very refined, lightly perfumy hops. Medium body with flavours of yeast and quite some maltiness. And then a solid dose of hops in the finish. Must be one of the most bitter Belgians. 011206

75 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with a slowly collapsing yet quite stable head. Off-white. Aroma is fantastic, smooth and mellow yeasty, mild spiced and caramel malt in a classic and almost supurb mix. In addition the aroma hops of amarillo, tomahawk and saaz join in giving a great twist to this. Flavour is dense spiced mixed with a nice mellow mix of yeast and caramel malt. Again the oily hops work quite well with this mix providing even more strength to the classic triple flavour. This is so smooth and so flavourful a triple - fantastic. Only downside - a vague bit too strong flavoured perhaps.

Bottled. Hazy yellow colour, mediumsized white creamy head. Aroma is spices, hops, malts and slight yeast. Pleasant. Flavour is smooth hoppy with some hints of spices. Big hoppy aftertaste, and enormously dry mouthfeeling.

UPDATED: AUG 28, 2006 [Bottled at Akkurat, Stockholm] Hazy pale golden, very rich and firm head. Powerful flowery hops combines with estery raspberry candy in the aroma. Sweet with soft, light, sparkling mouthfeel. Rich on hops with intriguing yeasty character. The alcohol is noticable and lifts the beer even further. Candyish finish with good bitterness. A complex beer with an unusual cross of rich hoppiness and superb malt character.

Bottle. Cloudy golden coloured with a huge white head. Aroma of fruits, spices, pine needles and hops. Flavour of fruits, spices, pine needles and hops.

UPDATED: FEB 4, 2012 Bottle. Fruity, citric hoppiness in aroma. Teaish, yeasty aftersmell. Cloudy golden colour. Quite bitter flavour with some tea to it. Drying out my mouth and then turning sweet again. Creamy, insistingly stable white head, clinging onto the sides of the glass. 7 3 7 3 17
Bottle, 9.0% - cellared for 4 or 5 years, I guess. Citric orange juice aroma. Dark golden colour, small floating bits. Small stable white head leaving lace. The flavour is quite malty, a bit bisquity. Very late bitterness, but good and clean. some yeast as well. Tastes like a good tripel now, there is not as much hop character left. 7 3 7 3 16

UPDATED: DEC 15, 2009
Name: Houblon Chouffe Dobbelen IPA Belgian Triple
Date: May 12, 2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brick Store Pub
Appearance: cloudy dark yellow, big fine white head, solid lace
Aroma: sweet spicy malt aroma
Flavor: big spicy flavor, nice aged hop character, enough malt to back it up, all about the spices and the hops
Overall: really excellent

Name: Houblon Chouffe Dobbelen IPA Belgian Triple
Date: November 20, 2009
Mode: draft
Source: brick store
back to the roots of the Belgian IPA revolution, all the hops with the spicy phenolics, touch of the bready malt character, light citrus,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *** /4

UPDATED: AUG 14, 2010 2010-08-13, draught at Mikkeller Bar, Copenhagen, 7-4-7-3-14=35
Cloudy blond color, almost no head. The aroma is light, with malt, vegetables, light spices; un-exciting. Average body strength; spicy malt flavor; strong bitterness; no emotions.
The only thing I’m really enjoying at the moment is Neil Young’s Harvest playing...

2010-06-25, 33cl bottle, best before 2012/06, 7-4-7-4-15=37
Hazy blond color; high carbonation and consequent huge head. At first there is aroma of paper; then some hop and spices, more Triple than IPA. Dry malt flavor, spicy. Maybe the bottle is not fresh; it’s a good Tripel, but nothing like I had the first time.

2007-10-29, 75cl bottle, 8-5-9-5-17=44
Hazy golden color; rocky head. Very nice aroma, hoppy and spicy, Belgian hopping, flowery. Good body structure, malty, dry, very bitter; there is yeast, spices and some honey too; the flavors are very well mixed. Excellent.