Halve Maan Java Triple

Bierbrouwerij de Halve Maan
Brewed at Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Abbey Tripel
Hulst, Netherlands

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Bottle at Arendsnest. Golden body. With a talll head. Orange and other fruit flavours. Strong alcohol taste. Okay though.

(Draught at Arendsnest, Amsterdam, 15 July 2011) Golden colour with frothy, white head. Fruity nose with apricots, citrus and spicy hints of coriander. Fruity taste with notes of apricots, peaches, citrus, tropical fruit and a mild, spicy bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with balanced sweetness. Quite nice.

Bottle at Cafe Buitenlust, Oirschot. Pretty standard yellow golden tripel color. Smell and taste a little sour. Medium to full body, firm carbo.

Pretty nice triple, but also not above average. It’s a nice brew anyway. Decent.

Huge, dense, off-white head over darker, clear-golden beer, heavily carbonated. Grainy, faint spicy and vegetable nose, bit milky and white candi sugar. More bitter, toasted flaovur, again spicy as with curaçoa peel, some coriander, and toasted malts. Caramel and candi sugar touches, alcohol in the finish. Quite spritzy, little restsugars, very carbonated. Aftertaste has some green leaves, certainly warming up, and becomes more sweet all the same. Huyghe Tripel indeed. BTW, why do the Dutch spell Tripel always in French?

Bottle at home. Clear golden pour, thin creamy white head. Aroma of spices and sugary malts, some pepper and slightly boozy. Flavor is slightly sweet, quite spicy, some bitter and only a tiny bit chemical. Nice balance though. Lively carbonation and a nice lingering bitter spicyness. Decent brew.

12/10/2010 30cl bottle @ home

Pours a clear yellow to orange beer, big orange chunks floating around in the glass. White creamy head (they lost one point for the clearness, and one for the chunks). Aroma has hops, malt, straw and lots of icky yeast. Lots of carbonisation in the glass. MF is ok, thin body. Taste holds sugar, some hop bitter and citrus fruits, but all very faint. Aftertaste has some hop bitter and a little acidic, but is practically immediately gone. Really bad stuff...

Bottle. Yellow, a bit to orange color. White foam, big enough head, but don’t hold very long. Sour citrus fruit smell. Taste pretty good fruity, good aftertaste, not to bitter. Drinkeable, and a little surprise, was expecting way less since i just tasted "lazarus" before this one.

Bottle 30 cl, bought @ brasserie. Hazy golden color, with an incredibly creamy head. Aroma malts, fresh fruity nose. Medioum body. Taste sweet, bit yeast, fruits touch, dry finish.

Bottle 30cl @ home.
Clear medium yellow orange color with some medium size particles, with a large, frothy, good lancing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, moderate yeasty, moderate ginger, some soap notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (040608)