Chouffe Houblon Dobbelen IPA Tripel

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

Pours a hazy yellow with a huge head. Thickest head I have seen I think. Heavy carbonation. Aroma is floral, spicy, yeasty and sweet. Taste is slight banana, citrus, and spiciness. Different.

750. Bright orange with a huge 4 fingered head that would just not quit for about 30 min. once the beer warmed, it looked very nice-whispy white head with a bright orange hue. nose has huge dose of grassy hops, light tripel yeast, estery grains, and distinct sourness. smells like the best of both worlds. Pretty much what i was expecting out of this beer. The hops in the flavor are grassy and somewhat piney with lots of tripel sweetness. the malt is fruity but not to overly sweet. This beer has almost perfect balance. I got so wapped up in the experience of this beer that i forgot to write down anything during the rating. I will finish this one later!

Bottle from Whole Foods in Alexandria - Cloudy gold, huge foamy white head. Intriguing nose of spicy florals, orange zest, and perfume, with softer notes of pepper and rock candy. Bread tones are faintly woven in. Flavor was very nice throughout with an even layer of spicy, floral, peppery hops throughout, touches of citrus, and a slight earthy tone bringing it together late. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, dry, bittersweet finish. Don’t go in thinking Dreadnaught or 90 Min, just think La Chouffe (if you have tried it) with some extra hop kick. Very nice IPA experiment that works for me. A nice change of pace from the grapefruit league if you follow....

Draft at O’Brien’s. Cloudy pale yellow with a huge fluffy head. Lemony and sweet citrus aromas. Flavors hit harder with the hops, but not like an American IPA at all. Very citrus, but not so much grapegruit. Toned down by spices. Corriander and maybe some orange. Pretty good.

One of the hoppiest belgian brews I have had in a while. Pours a beautiful bright, hazey golden colour with a thicker then thick white whip cream like top. Plenty of sediment, which is evident all throughout the bottle. Aroma is very fruity, with a strong hop floral scent. Taste is very astringent, hop infused and creamy. Very interesting brew all the way through, glad I tried it.

33 cL bottle. Pours pale gold with an enormous tight white head that leaves serious lacing. The texture of the head reminds me of the top of a rootbeer float when the ice cream is mostly melted and not mixed in. The aroma is zesty with some nice clove and corriander accents, some forest-floor type earth, some yeast. The flavor is zest, clove, and grassy hops at first, then gets slightly earthy and yeast toward the middle. An ambient lemon and pine bitterness develops toward the finish, where there is also some warmth and a hint of crackers. Dry, zesty hop bitterness lingers forever in the aftertaste. As it warms it gets a light honey note and increased spiciness. Not bad at all.

Hazed and pale pulpy apricot in color with a root beer float-like cone pillowing out the tulip, with a huge glacial drift of a sudsy white for the head. Sugary scarlet lime meets a honey glazed, lemon-meringue graham motif as the matter channels up the nose. Lilies and lilacs give a ginger sweet aromatic herbaceous anthem. Cool effervescence is met with a clean cottony banana complex and a bitter honey coated hop cone flavor. Smooth and complex, with generally a thicker than normal stream. Honey grahams are enhanced with squeezed daffodil juice to create a waxy gloss on the palate. Clover and coriander impart a dry earthen scratch, coupling with the dry, bitter and enzymatic alpha acids. Cotton blossoms get caught in a hop field with marigolds and spruce compounds. Cherry rose bitterness pursues post sip with stark enzymes under nectar-infused butter crème and a hint of lemon-lime tart sweetness underneath and over-top.

Well, this was interesting to say the least. I poured it into my 1L+ mug because I was feeling that way. It had a ridiculously large rocky head that refused to die. After a violent pour, I got the head to be about 2 inches over the rim of the glass. I musta spent at least 2 hours sipping this, and the head didn’t die until the very end. The lacing was phenominal, and I don’t know what else I could have wanted for an appearance. Aroma was spicy hops... but not overly so. I was expecting a blast but this was relatively mild. Also got notes of the yeast, bananas, spices, some fruit, hint of pepper. Flavor matches all of that, although 9% is hidden amazingly well. My only compliant is that this didn’t taste better. It sat in the glass for 2 hours not because it was so amazing, but because it just wasn’t that enjoyable despite a lot of positive characteristics. It’s a cool idea and I’m always open to this kinda stuff but I didn’t enjoy it all that much.