3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. pours with a foamy white head and a hazy yellow body. Aroma of dried fruit, spicey yeast, honey and bread. Taste is honey, spicey, yeasty with noticable alcohol. Lively but small bubbles. Dryish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Golden with a white head. Aromas are candy sugar, yeast and spices with apricot and mellow tropical fruit mix. Flavours are sweet biscuit and lemon with some smooth butter and caramel notes. Spicy with a warming finish. Very drinkable for the strength.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Zythos Beer Festival, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium 2005. Golden colour with a white head. Hoppy citrus aroma and a sweet malty and hoppy citrus light alcoholic taste. Medium body and a sweet light alcoholic finish.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle (Kaunis Kampela, Helsinki, Belgian Weeks)
Light orange, tight persistent head. Sweet yeasty hoppy classic belgian aroma. Lively carbonation, quite tingly, both from hops and from alcohol. Taste is a bit saccharinney. Pretty hoppy and soft malts. Not exceptional.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
750 ml bottle from State Line. Pours turbid dull goldish with 2-finger white head. Aroma is spicy yeasty, hoppy, with spicy florals and candi sugary malts. Tastes dry, floral, spicy, with mid-palate fruit, malt, and spicy earthy cobwebby yeast. Rich, complex palate. Not bad at all.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
750 mL bottle purchased at Liquor Max in Loveland, CO. Pours clear yellow with an average, fizzy, white head, lasting with good lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (grain, hay, straw), average hops (herbs, grass), average yeast (earth, leaves) with notes of banana, pear, apple, pepper, and coriander. Medium bodied, sticky texture, lively carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, light sweetness, acidity, and bitterness.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Dranken Geers, Oostakker, Nr Gent, Belgie, 01-10-10 consumed 24.10.10 Pours lemon yellow, quite pale white head. Aroma is a little pineappley along with spice and a touch of yeast. Soft in the mouth, but there is a little warmth from the alcohol, spice and a dab of pineapple again along with some sweet citrus zest. Fine. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Slightly alcoholic aroma, smells a bit raw. Palate is quite spicy, peppery, with typical Belgian yeasty acidity that you expect in these tripels, probably a touch too much alcohol noticed in the finish.
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