Duvel Tripel Hop

Brewed by Duvel Moortgat
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Breendonk-Puurs, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Pours a pale green with a thin white head. Aroma is vanilla, wheat, grassy, earthy, some skunkiness. Taste is incredibly aggressive up front; citrus, very carbonated, spicy. The following taste is very mild and drinkable; but the up front is just too much.

75cl bottle at home. 1 year and 7 months old. Great, great beer. Looks golden, clear with a nice big white head. In the nose you get lots of fruitiness, yeast, oranges, bit spices. In the mouth you have that typical Duvel-bitterness, but then as well the sweetness. Aftertaste is rich and bit bitter. Well balanced beer! It seems to get better and better!

750 ml champagne-style bottle. Brewed May 18, 2010; best before May 18, 2013. I meant to drink this on New Year’s Eve, but we had so many other beers to drink, this somehow got postponed. Pours a hazy gold with a large white rocky head with excellent retention and lace. Aroma is dusty, lemony, oxidized a bit. Taste starts out lightly sweet for a millisecond before quickly turning tart and finishing dry with a pronounced bitterness. Oxidation is apparent in flavor, too; it’s not enough to detract from the overall quality of the beer too much. Carbonation is average and the body is full. I like it, but not as much as regular old Duvel. The bitterness in the finish is distracting.

From 750ml corked bottle. Poured a nice golden color, thick head, nice lacing. Smelled like a typical strong belgian golden (phenol) and slight citrus notes. Very carbonated, light on the tongue. Lots of warmth from the alcohol, slight citrusy hop notes on the way down and in the aftertaste.

Orange coloured and hazy. Has a white head, mostly diminishing. Heavy hoppy aroma, clear notes of grass and hay. Flavor starts moderate sweet, then bitter and finish heavy to harsh bitter. Dry, soft texture and lively carbonation.

75cl botlle. Hazy liquid of yellow honey color. Small white head. I poured it in a sample, trappist glass of 15cl from Westvleterren. Nose : Caramel and bread notes. Nicely citrus with mandarins, pomelo grapefruit and orange. Some little raisins. Sip : Creamy with medium carbonation. Briefly sweet with dry and sour following. Dry spicy clove and citrus zest aromas. Long finish.

It was ok. I was a little disappointed that it did not have more. It was balanced and nicely carbed but just so so. I would not seek this out again

Bottle: pours hazy yellow with a big pillowy head. Aroma is of Belgian spice, grassy tartness, yeast, and honey. The flavor starts somewhat like a grassy pilsner but moves into spicy yeast with a powdery bitterness and a slight blue cheese twang, ending with a small bit of honey. I could drink more of this,not sweet or boozy like I anticipated.

Poured from a cork/caged/wrapped 750ml with a brewed on date of May 18, 2010, into a Duvel tulip glass. A: Body is a pale amber color with a thick rocky white head. Carbonation bubbles are rushing from the bottom to the head. Very appealing looking beer. S: Sort of chemically smelling with alcohol faint on the nose. Hints of fruit, citrus and sour apples. T: Maltier than normal Duvel giving it a bready flavor up front alcohol hits the middle of the taste into a faint bitter hops flavor and some slight fruits. M: Creamy with light fizzy carbonation. O: Too unbalanced for my liking, the bottle suggests drinking before 2013 so I’m not sure how much better or worse this will get, but I won’t be buying it again. I think this is a step-down from Duvel, it’s maltier with a fuller flavor, but I don’t like the flavor I’m tasting as much.

Pours pale yellow with huge frothy white head. Aroma is spicy, herbal hops, spicy belgian yeast, some citrus, fruit, and grapes. Taste is spicy belgian yeast, earthy hops, citrus, white grapes, and candi sugar. There’s a hint of sweetness on the palate but it finishes dry with medium hop bitterness. Great brew!