Draeckenier

Brouwerij Troch
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Abbey Tripel
Aalst, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Draft at Max’s in Baltimore. Bitter start to finish, slight cardboard finish. Not the best beer of the night’s line-up.

A big off white head slowly fades. The beer is cloudy goldn with sediment floating. A syrupy fruit aroma with heavy malt. After the first couple of sips I am still not sure what to think of this. Alcohol seems like Everclear and there is plenty of malt and sweetness. There is some fruit and Belgian yeast. This is kind of an odd duck and there really is not all that much going on. There are much better beers that come out of Belgium.

Bottle @ home. Darker blond to amber coloured beer with quite some carbonation and a medium white head. Fruity, slightly yeasty and malty sweet hinted aroma with some short herby touches. Full palate. Finish is sweet bitter balanced with a hint of malts and sweet yeasty almost alcoholic hinted notes. Heavy but enjoyable tripel.

Connecticut St Liquors, DC 330ml ($4): Pours an orange colour with a white head. Aroma is ambiguously malty, with a hint of something that I am loath to call spiciness. Taste is sweet, maybe too sweet. I don’t know how this is a Tripel because this tastes like an ambiguous Belgian Strong Ale to me. This is really a one-dimensional ale, which I will be perfectly content with never drinking again.

33cl bottle from Willems en Zoon. BB 05/05/2013. Orangée, blanc. Arôme malté, léger renfermé, fruit tropical. En bouche, malt, léger biscuité, houblon en amertume avec ce profile levure donnant une fin de bouche citronnée. Note de grains, léger malt caramel/munich et un picotement levure, pointe sucrée/caramélisée.

Bottle 330ml.

Clear medium to dark yellow orange colour with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, vegetable, moderate yeasty, dough !! Initail flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate bitter, finish flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light heavy bitter with a long duration, plastic - smoke, sharp, yeasty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is fizzy - soft. [20120317]

Ulfborg Scooper Smagning 2012. Dark golden with floaties. Small white head. Yeasty and fruity aroma with some peach and figs and a bit of brown sugar. Sweetish fruity flavour with a sugary touch and notable alcohol in the finish

Bottle @ FOneFan. Clear amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit and yeast. Flavour is malt, fruit, yeast, medium sweet, spices, hop and a little bitter.

Bottle @ Mid March Tasting, Ulfborg 2012. Pours cloudy golden with a creamy white head. Nose is yeast and orange fruit. Sweet. Flavor is really yeasty. Baking dough. Medium bodied. Ends dry and bitter. Warmth from alcohol.

330 ml bottle a golden yellow colored beer with a white head aroma malts spicy citrus and hops flavor malts spicy citrus yeast some sweetness and hops

330ml bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Dull golden brew, decent off-white head. Nose of lemon, bready malt, and grass. Flavor is honey sweet, doughy, and spicy.