Keyte Ostêns Belegeringsbier

Brewed by Brouwerij Strubbe
Style: Abbey Tripel
Ichtegem, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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33 cl. bottle @ home as Keyte Osténdse Triple. Procured from Willems. BBF 04/11/2014 @ apparently 09:37 :) Pours a marketable big brewery, rising bubbles golden with a creamy white head. Nose is typical bigger brewery sized fare of grass, floral bitter notes with some white bread sweetness, almost hint of butter, white sugar, sweet grains with alcohol coming through. Bitter taste with overt notes of medicinal alcohol, cheap hooch style with plenty of grains, grass, bitter Belgian floral notes, white bread and white sugar sweetness. The alcohol comes through to much in a cheap white spirit type of way reminding me a bit too much of cheap hobo swill. Mouth feel is all bubbly like champagne. Typical fare with a nice factory drunkenness assistant flourish to it. I agree.

Superbe triple d’Ostende. (Et tout à fait entre nous, jusqu’à présent, Ostende n’est pas une abbaye …) Donc ce n’est pas une abbaye triple comme indiqué sur le site, mais une triple tout ce qu’il y a de plus civil … Mais une merveilleuse triple. Couleur doré fin brillant. Clarté nette, pure. Bulles très fines en fontaine au centre. Mousse blanche qui tombe vite, mais nappe bien avec une texture un peu crémeuse. Arômes de jolies fleurs d’été, houblon fin, avoine avec un zeste de citron et du thym. 1ère bouche à la texture soyeuse, très fleurie, avec un joli houblon, grains fins et une pointe de thym. Arrière-bouche fine et un rien épicée, avec des herbes aromatiques. Superbes nuances, parfois un peu sur la triple Karmeliet. 2ème bouche bien équilibrée avec une pointe d’épices. 3ème bouche soyeuse, fine et profonde à la fois. Très beau malt sur l’arrière-bouche. Longueur très belle et de grand style. Levure fine, précise, magnifique. Alcool progressif, très bien, malgré le niveau un peu juste pour une triple (7,7 % abv). Finale magnifique, finale de classe. Une très grande bière qui compense sa sœur foncée.... Une blonde ostendaise qui fait honneur à la ville d’Arno.

From bottle at the restaurant by the Atlantikwall in Oostende Belgium. Poured golden color with a white head. Aromas of banana, caramel, yeast, spice and finishes with a dry hoppy finish.

Drank as keyte tripel ( bottle in the picture) best before 4 days from now , yes ! Nailed it ! Still at its best ! Pours guzze blonde , rather small foam , regular stability Smell is kinda aged ... Malts , a strange twist of intresting sweetness Again , to much carbo ! Damned ! Intresting sweet malty taste . Kinda common , no real diffrence than so many other belgian blonds . But i do enjoy this slightly more .. ( the moment ? The palate ? ) anyway worthy of drinking , not searching

29th November 2011
Noted as Oostende Tripel - which is what it says on the label and this RB picture!! Hazy pale gold beer with a little white head. Softish palate with a little carbonated nip. Semi dry. Typical sweet and spicy malts. Semi dry finish. Standard tripel but done well.

330ml bottle [Oosténdse Tripel, 7.7% abv]. Clear dark golden colour with average, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Unspecific fruity and minimally spicy aroma, roughly grapes, gooseberry. Taste is minimally sweet, slightly tart fruity, minimally spicy, a touch of straw.

33cl bottle. Lovely golden/orange color. A bit cloudy with medium snowy white head. Good looking one. Nose : fruity nose with peach, pineapple and some citron zest bite. Soap and straw. Sip : Smooth and drinkable with creamy texture and fine carbonation. It’s a sweet beer with tart and citrus acid flavor. The esters aren’t overwhelming and well balanced. It’s also well hopped and even it isn’t very bitter it is peppery and citrusy like. It’s a very nice brew and I was expecting nothing less since I tried the quadrupel with the same label.

UPDATED: SEP 24, 2012 Update 24 Sept ’12: Rating from bottle

Rating from tap
Golden colour, white head. Aroma of sewer, overpowering anything nice. Quite sweet flavour, light sour, lots of butter. Finish sewerage, standing water, butter.
Appalling, especially when compared with the bottled version. Has the Keyte-tap been cleaned this century @ Botteltje?
(Draught @ Botteltje, Oostende)
3-3-4-2-8. Total score: 2

Rating from bottle
Clear golden colour, white head. Aroma of citrus, malts, sweet fruity, light banana, quite spicy. Quite sweet, light bitter flavour. Fruity. Light bitter finish, citrus and herbs.
Much, much better than the draught version I had before.
(From 75cL bottle @ Café ’t Pomptje, Stene, Oostende)

On tap at Brussels Beer Festival. Nice blondy beer with large head. Nose of sweet, fruits, bananas, herbs. Quite carbonated. Taste is also hops and pine with some malts and fruit flavours. Nice and complex. Quite spicy too. Interesting combinations.

this beer doesn’t look that special and for the most part it isn’t. The finish is quite subtle with some banana and cloves and other spices. This is the very nice part of the beer. Not a winner, but definitenly a nice beer. Bottle from De Schans.