Keyte Oosténdse Dobbel-Tripel

ZBF2008: From tap. Pours hazy brown with a dense and collapsing white head. Light spiced aroma, coriander. Flavour is mild yeasty, light metallic note, mild coriander spice and a smooth caramel malt. Ends with a lingering spice finish.6-3-7-4-14=3.4

Name: Keyte Oostendse Dobbel-Tripel
Date: 06/20/2008
Mode: Draft
Source: Brick Store Pub

Appearance: clear dark ruby red, fine tan head, streaks of drippy lace,
Aroma: sweet malt aroma with a nice dark fruit character,
Body: creamy body,
Flavor: sweet fruity malt flavor, lots of dark plum character, a touch of cherry pit tartness, peachy sweetness, light balancing earthyness,
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Name: Keyte Oostendse Dobbel-Tripel
Date: 09/19/2008
Mode: draft
Source: brick store
Score: 3.6 to 3.5

picking up some spicyness in the flavor to complement the fruityness, the woody fruity tartness is still there but more in the background, peachy sweetness shows up at the bottom of the glass,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

Draught @ Zythos Bier Festival 2008, Sint Niklaas, Belgium. Clear sparkling medium amber red brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, moderate to heavy gum, earth, dust. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is lively (Co2). (010308)

Tasted under the name of Strandjuttersbier Mong de Vos from den Haene beers Stupendous huge dark-reddish beige head, dense & creamy; beautiful deep-garnet coloured beer. Alcohol, dark sweet malts and peperkoek(+/- gingerbread). Later more wood, dry wood, lactic acid. Sweet, very much so, near syruplike, but covering again a spike of sourish lactic. In the finish it gets drier, but with more marked liquorice, medlar jam flavours and faint chocolate. Dry ending and some alcohol, but still pretty discreet for its ABV; slick, near buttery, medium to well-bodied. Honestly, I’m not overawed. There have been unfortunate attempts at covering the typical Oud Bruin characteristics from Strubbe, fortunately not quite succeeded.
It has been brought under my attention that the Strandjuttersbier might not be the same as the Keyte D.T. So here’s a retry of the original Keyte Dobbel-Tripel.
Good, but fast receding cream-beige head over deep garnet-redbrown beer. Bready & leafy nose, yeast notes and Vietnamese Sambaosauce. Sweet, with a light sourness, covered by this slightly artificial sweet flavour, Traubenzucker , discreet cookies, liquorice, leafy again. Not bad, but not really great. MF very slick, creamy texture, smooth, acidburn completely covered.
7/4/7/4/14
As to eventual difference with the Strandjuttersbier, it is not decisive. Strubbe are able to do an near-inifinite tweaking and blending, so it might be that those are different batches. Still, they resemble each other closely, the Strandjuttersbier being maybe slightly more sourish, the acids less covered (aspartamed??) than the Keyte.

Tap at Ginger Man. Deep brown beer with light garnet highlights. Aroma is fairly fruity with a light plumminess. Soft candied sweetness with lots of cotton candy and very light brown sugar. A hint of date/plum sweetness, but nothing overpowering at all. Lightly peppery with a light alcoholic bite. Noble hops seems to play a pretty strong role in both the aroma and the flavour of this one but they integrate pretty well with the light fruit and soft malts. Vaguely licoricey. A bit of orange-peel and berryish fruits. Quite light-bodied really. It’s okay, but not great.