La Trappe Tripel

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

The bottle poured an slightly cloudy amber liquid. This is a bottle conditioned beer so pour and handle carefully. The head was off-white, small and creamy but it didn’t last long and left no lacing. The aroma was of malt and a complex mixture of sweet and dried fruits. There were also notes of spice and clove. It had a medium body with a sharp bite of high carbonation and a smooth texture. The flavor begins sweet and moderately fruity with a carbonation bite on the tongue. As the flavor matures the alcohol warmth comes out and the finish is crisp, dry and long lasting.

Take the dubbel and apply the turbo chargers. Big sweet malts across the bouquet and palate. Nose is very complete and shows good penetration. Very smooth to drink and underpinned with an appropriate level of fizz that keeps the flavours moving along. This is a polished effort that shows a lot of appeal. (e3.30 @ Café Arendnest)

Pours hazy bronze golden with a thin, mostly maintained beige head. Aroma is a mix of fruity esters: pineapples, bubble gum, and phenols: apples, and candied fruits. Taste is lightly sweet with most of the flavors present in the aroma. Some of the phenols are overpowered by alcoholic esters. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with a Belgian alcoholic light stickiness and lush carbonation. Nice and probably my favorite of the La Trappe lineup.

UPDATED: FEB 18, 2005 33 cl, fairly cold in tall Maredsous stem glass. Pours a murky orangey-amber, with unavoidable transfer of sediment, into a slight and disappearing head. Cidery look. Candy and stewed-fruits aroma and taste. Taste slight clove and warm apple pie, pears dried and stewed. Interesting. After a Chimay Bleu, this beer has tons of flavor, but damn that sediment in the glass looks a mess. Candy and soft bitter-herb aftertaste. What a big aroma. Sheer pleasure in the glass, would get this by the case in spite of all the clumpy ’yeast poop’ swirling around the bottom of that beautiful glass.

Coppery and hazy in color with a small white head. Smells of hay, citrus, coriander, crabapples, and macintosh apples. Taste is bitter sweet with cherries, and citrus being most prevelant. Very smooth finish.

amber color, thin thick head, a fresh tripel!, lots of fruit, some flower boeqett, can’t fount the 8%,..maybe later

Pours a slightly hazed amber brown with a tan head. Nose is the typical Belgian yeast with a touch of sweetness, but seems to be pretty weak. Flavor is smooth with a sweet start. On the end I got a bit of a metallic edge, which I can’t say I appreciated too much. Feel is standard. Typical stuff. It’s definitely drinkable. I consider this more of the type of brew that neither tries to stand out far ahead of the crowd or is too immature to be crap. Smooth and even. It’s a balanced brew. It won’t blow your socks off, but it is even enough to keep you satisfied.

Bottle 33cl. An amber-orange beer with small head and a bit cloudy. Smell is on candy sugar and oranges. Aroma is well malty, specially with some wheat and maybe oatmeal, bit sweet nice body and specially nice round hops finish. Not dry and astringent as many Belgian triples. Some orange notes with a vanilla finish. Good beer, deep in malty dimension, very smooth and a bit creamy.