La Trappe Tripel

Brewed by De Koningshoeven (Bavaria - Netherlands)
Style: Abbey Tripel
Berkel-Enschot, Netherlands

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

On tap in Ciampino, Italy at Seigradi. Pretty much same as the Double. Pours a cloudy dark amber light brown with a nice off white head. Aroma of fruits, caramel, sweetness, and malt. Taste of fruits, sugar, and yeast. Palate is bland cardboard. I could have done without this one.

Had this beer on 5/5/2007. Aroma is light with a faint hop nose. Carbonation is very good with a nice tight head. Color is a deep golden Taste is rich and creamy. Starting with a full body it goes down easy with a smooth/fizzy feel that makes it come across creamy. Finish comes in easy with a nice yet rich malty flavor that is backed with a yeast flavor that has mellow fruit tones and mild hop spice and even bitterness. This is a well balanced all the way around and is one of the best Trappist brews I have had.

Copper pour with large, off--white head that quickly recedes leaving a thin head to swim on top. Malty nose with spice and ripened fruits. Flavor is more robust — corander, ripe plum, sweet caramel, sugar, banana and a peppery finish with a bit of tang on top. The body leans toward thin, but has a slightly sticky finish. The alcohol reveals itself at the end with a comfortable warmth. Enjoyable.

Vegassssss....
Poured out a hazy amber brew with super fine sediment and a below average sized white cap that hasn’t the power to remain for long. Cool aroma! toffee, candy, wet bark, dark dried fruits, sweet and very interesting spices, dried bananas (faint), pink bubble gum of lower quality. The taste is pretty good but quite sweet, plums, sweet malts which hold up the body of flavour, yummy soft candies, something resembling lemon meringue - no crust, soft, acceptable spice with hints of weak pepper, sour apple on the finish. There is a shit load of carbonation here that is perfect, medium bodied, leaves a bit of a pasty coating - I finally noticed the alcohol on the taste and in my head. Finishes with a nice spice and fading bitterness which never totally disappears. I’ve noticed vanilla on one of my last sniffs before I drained the bottom into my gut and a touch of banana in the taste. Normally I don’t enjoy triples too much but I’ll have to say that I rather enjoyed this in under 5 minutes.

750 ml. bottle. Pours an exhuberant head which rapidly diminishes, color is a lovely reddish tinged golden, nose of spice, yeast, with floral overtones, tastes of spice, malts, many different esters flow through, some better than others, mouth feel is good, late finish includes bitterness and a very late iodine overtone.

Bottle: Hazy yelow colour, with a nice white head. Aroma of yeast,flowers,citrus. Flavor is almost the same,medium body,and a nice dry yeasty medium finish.

Bottle. Slightly hazy dark golden with a creamy head. Fruit, yeast, malt, some alcohol and toffee. Descent stuff!

Pours hazy golden brown with a nice thick head, bittersweet aroma with lots op hops. Subtle yeast and hops taste with some bitter fruits. Nice long aftertaste of fruits, hops and yeast.