Kasteelbier Tripel Blonde 11%

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

Bottle. Poured a orange hue with a moderate frothy white head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Full aroma of sweet fruit and alcohol. Medium body with smooth texture. Full flavor of fruit and spice with a solid alcohol bite at the finish.

0.33l bottle at home. Yellow with almost no head. Some lacing though. Aroma is very light fruity and some spicy hint. Aroma is more intense as beer warmes up-gets more spicy. Quite spicy taste in the beginning and malty at the end. Alcohol is quite present. It is a nice triple.

Wildly fizzing golden trumpet swirling with chunks. Rocky pillows of aromatic foam. A flowery snout, with hints of vanilla, honey and coriander lulling you into a dangerous sense of security. And then the electrodes are attached. A sledgehammer of booze-sodden fruit and cough-medicine strangeness knocks you out of your chair. Your ears catch fire. You cough and struggle at first, but slowly succumb to the narcotic herbal woodiness and odd vinous dryness. A dizzying fog of sweet spiritous fumes encloaks you. You are dead. You have mastered 11% of this adventure. You have been drinking Kasteel blonde 2004.

Best before 10/2006. Cork says 2003. Pours a hazy gold into a tulip. Very little head from an aggressive pour quickly dissipates. Bread, hay and alcohol aromas. Sweet with a slight tart lemon fizz. Lasting sweet raisin finish.

Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma is yeast and fruit. Taste is fruit and malt. A bit sour.

Pours a light pale clear yellow with fizzy white head. Aroma is kinda champagney, sour, alcohol, and peach. Flavor is pretty strong and alcoholish, warming sensation as it goes down, slight caramel, and some sour tartness. Overall, not impressive.

In a chilled mug...Deep gold with a white, quickly disappearing head. Moderate aroma of sweet corn, alcohol, and a fruit difficult to pin down. Grape perhaps? Taste is ever so slightlyl spiced, very sweet and full of alcohol. Too sweet. Not enough character to balance the sweet or the alcohol. Wait...the 11% just kicked in, telling me this beer is not so disappointing after all! But I’ll stay with my sober assessment.

Poured a golden color with nice head good lacing. Aroma was of bananas and yeast coriander and other spices. Flavor was much the same but alcohol jumped out very warm.