Kasteelbier Tripel Blonde 11%

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck
Style: Abbey Tripel
Ingelmunster, Belgium

Another tripel, four nights in a row now, drinks alright but a couple of the others I preferred more. Good colour in the body as well as a good head and lacing. Alcohol on the nose and the taste is a little too sugary for my liking.

Bottle: Poured a clear golden color ale with a big foamy head with good retention and good lacing. Aroma consists of alcohol ester with some slightly cloying sweet malt. Taste is also dominated by some sweet malt with some distinctive notes of alcohol. Full body with great carbonation but alcohol is too apparent. Definitely lacking subtleties that I would usually expect from a Tripel and too cloying to be a regular beer for me.

A delicious but typical tripel. Aroma was decent. Yeast, apricot and apple. Pour was a nice light gold with a 1 finger white head [small for a tripel] and tons of small rising bubbles. Taste was nice and deceptivlely drinkable. All light fruit- apple, apricot and peach with a hint of honey in the background and a yeasty bite that couples with the carbonation to dry the mouth. I would never have guessed this beer was 11%. Wet sweet aftertaste.

Bottle from Beermerchants.com. Cloudy gold with thin white head. Complex aroma features huge alcohol hit, yeast, apricot and a sour bubblegum element. Instant warming feeling on first sip, the taste is more apricot, honey, vanilla, yeast and so much more. Very dry, lingering finish. Light on the tongue despite the high ABV. Perfect end of day beer.

bottle. Amber pour. light head. Aroma of yeast, booze, vanilla, and bread. flavor is pretty nice, bready, yesty, sweet, vanilla and caramel. Good beer.

Draft at Uber Seattle (listed as ’kasteelbeer de chateau’). Quite flat tripel. Very clean and clear amber with touch of a white head that went away quick. Bright flavor but flat on the tongue. Not terribly sweet with a slight stickiness, hides abv quite well.

Brown bottle, 33 cl, best before 05-2011, via Importations Privées Bièropholie, savoured on November 19 2008; eye: golden, clear, light effervescence, voluminous white head made up of rather large bubbles and that turns into a sheet over the beer, good lacing; nose: yeast, fresh bread, bittering hops, spices, citrusy; mouth: yeast, hops, fresh bread, alcohol, long but dry finale in yeast with a good presence of pepper, lightly sweet, mildly bitter, full body, foamy texture, rather carbonated; overall: quite likable FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 33 cl, meilleure avant 05-2011, via Importations Privées Bièropholie, savourée le 19 novembre 2008; œil : dorée, claire, légère effervescence, mousse blanche abondante formée de bulles plutôt grosses et qui se transforme en une petite couverture, bonne dentelle; nez : levure, pain frais, houblon amérisant, épices, citrique; bouche : levure, houblon, pain frais, alcool, longue mais sèche finale en levure avec une bonne présence de poivre, légèrement sucrée, moyennement amère, corsée, texture mousseuse, plutôt carbonatée; en résumé : bien aimé

Bottle. Pours a clear gold with a large white head. Aroma is heavy yeast with detectable vanilla, citrus, and banana. Taste is the same, with a nice full body and a barely-there alcohol burn. It’s a very solid tripel, though not the best of the style.