De Graal Tripel

Brewed by De Graal
Style: Abbey Tripel
Brakel, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

(750ml bottle) Small off-white head atop hazy, fleck-filled straw body. Aroma is moderately sweet, banana, candi sugar, light pineapple syrup, alcohol. Taste is moderately sweet, candi sugar, banana, some spicy, light straw. Effervescent medium body.

The body was medium gold with a bright white colored head. The aroma has some pears with cinnamon. There is also an almond hint. The taste has some sweet cake donuts. There is also spicy cinnamon. A decent beer, but fairly boring.

Aroma of yeast, some caramel malt and some peppery spice. Cloudy, yellow coloured with a decent head. Taste is sweet, bitter slightly dry. Caramel malts, spice and citrus. Decent triple.

Bouteille de 330 ml obtenue via Importations Privées Bièropholie. Arôme: Légère odeur d’épices et de céréales. Apparence: La couleur est blonde voilée (présence de dépôt) avec une forte densité de bulle. Présence d’un large col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût d’agrumes avec une pointe d’épices et de fruité. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture minérale. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Présence d’agrumes en arrière goût. (Rating #4080)

Bottle at GBBF 05. Spicy, dry, wheaty aroma. Ditto for the flavour + some sweetness and warmth on the finish. Thick, fizzy mouthfeel. Reasonably good actually, though perhaps too cloying.

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.

Bottle, october 08. Hazy golden yellow color with a medium, white head. Spicy aroma with some graininess and fruit. Very perfumy but a bit sweet and cloying. Fruity, spicy. Not as sweet as expected from the nose. Kind of unidimensional. Medium, vivid, enveloping flavor. Alcohol well hidden but warming. Nice, warming tripel. A tad too gingery.

Bottled. Slightly hazy yellowish golden colour with small white fluffy head. Aroma is fruits, herbs, spices, mild alcoholic sweetness as well as some sweet maltyness. Flavour is sweet malts, some spices as well as alcohol and mild yeastyness.