Dendermonde Tripel

Brewed by De Block Brouwerij
Style: Abbey Tripel
Peizegem, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Orange, hazy color, good cloudy head. Sweetish fruity nose (apricot, mango, sugar).

Nice but very sweet high alcohol and still approachable belgium ale. Thought it would rate higher than suggested on Ratebeer.

Bottle from the Fort Worth Flying Saucer. Aroma is peppery spice, banana, clove. Taste is weaker than the smell. Alcohol, malts, nuts, spice.

Bottle, 33 cl. Yellow-orange hazy coloured beer with medium creamy white head, fading way in the end to a small one. Aroma of fruits, malts, yeast and light hops. Taste is fruity and malty at first, some spices and grains on the background and halfway the glass a light hoppy bitter taste gives the beer a decent finish. A decent average triple, not more and not less.

0.33 l bottle. Dark golden/caramell-liked colour with a quickly diminishing pretty off-white head, which remains like whipped cream. Carbonation is fizzy. Acidic smell of grain and yeast, the start’s sharp and sweetsour. The taste is sweet and dry, flavour’s of apples. The aroma is of cereal malt and grassy/resin hops, the finish is bitter/tart, dry and alcoholy. Body’s medium, the texture is sticky. I tried my last tripel-styled stuff for years ago and I couldn’t really enjoy it those time, these one was broadly the same for me, it was characteristic, but not made for my taste...

Bottle from the Saucer. Obstructed golden/orange pour. Lots of sediment remains suspended. Smells of champagne, bitter notes and dry fruit. Taste is a dry fruit, with a bitter grape sense. Light clay or drying earth. Finishes with a slight alcohol burn. Tingles with certainty. Not bad but a little harsh.

330 ml bottle a golden yellow colored beer with a white head aroma of malts spices and something burning taste spices malts and bitter

From the Bottle at Chris O’s, GBBF Week 09/08/2008 Carbonation. Small white head. Hoppy aroma. Golden coloured and strong in alcohol with a little dryness and spiced flavour in a crisp malt finish.

33cl bottle from Dranken Geers. Clear gold, very lasting carbonation. Thick lasting beige head. Pretty light tripel, more like a strong blond to be honest. Some creaminess. It’s alright, if a bit characterless.

This was the first beer of my annual leave, the first of two on the red sofa. The Dendermonde Tripel gave an average smell on pouring, and ended with quite a robust initial head. A good pale colour with hints of oranges deeper in, and definite grapefruit and undertones of further citrus that stirred on the tongue. The taste was excellent though, making this a good all-round strong tripel. In fact, some more over-rated tripels I doubt could live with this on a blind taste-test