Moinette Blonde

Brewed by Brasserie Dupont
Style: Abbey Tripel
Tourpes-Leuze, Belgium

0.33l bottle into trappist glass. Very nice pale pour, good white head. Aroma is hoppy, wheat and sharp. Taste is similar, plenty hops and straw/wheat, excellent tripel.

750 ml bottle shared by Tmoney99. Pours a hazy golden color with a small/medium white head with good retention. The aroma was an interesting mix of yeast, sour citrus, spice, and apples. The flavor showed moderate sweetness, crisp lite citrus, more apples, lite yeast and a touch of alcohol. Medium bodied, easy drinking. This one had good flavor. 2006 vintage.

Vintage 2006. The old label. A cork that slid right out. Crystal clear bronze pour and a webbing of white froth. Dusty aroma of candied apples, honey, champagne vinegar, and cinnamon. Pears. Golden malts calmly settled. Subtle spicing and ever so lightly herbal, though the thyme and musty leaf notes consistently grind themselves into the earth of the malts. There’s some perfume heat that leads it into the lofty sophisticated atmosphere of a trappist tripel. Really lovely, if a bit vinegary and sweet sometimes.

A soaring herbal tranquility surrounds a lilac perfume and golden honey malt in the flavor, refined and realized. This is like stargazing. Yeasty dusts from the other worlds lend a strange fruitiness hidden in a saffron glaze. Firm and sweet underneath in a streamlined balance of cloying powdered sugar pastries and oak barrel finesse. Rosiness and lemon grass dry it up with a seedy, smooth bittersweetness. This is brilliantly balanced, sultry and soft, and just wild enough.

Yeast poured yields a creamy candy sweetness all the way through, and a smashing apple tartness amidst a seriously erudite floral arrangement of alcoholic perfumes. This is really damn pretentious and it carries itself with grace. An undertone of cured shavings of ginger.

Smooth and rich palate. Velvet texture of soft carbonation. Alcohol effects in the finish with a soft dryness, again of floral perfume, and an afterthought of orange rind. Final finish on herbs and thick dough. This is the definitive example of what a little age can do to take the edge off a tripel. The complexities have congealed, the yeasts have arrived, and the impression is more mysterious than confronting. Let it sit for a couple years, and possibly more, and be romanced. Brilliance.

75cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex brew, cloudy, good head, balanced, good brew

Glad I finally got around to drinking this one. Pours a nice slightly hazy golden with a thick creamy white head. The nose is sweet, candi sugar, Belgian earthy undertones, spicy yeast phenols. The flavor is similar, has a very nice sweetness to it without being cloying, nice spicy feel from the yeast, gets warmer in the mouth and throat as the temp rises, yeasty Belgian flavors are very nice. I was quite impressed with this.

Sort of representative of a standard Belgian Tripel. Moderate head on a cloudy light gold pour. Aroma of spice and barley. Flavor of citrus, spice, and a touch of malt. A bit heavy on the spice for my taste. It’s an average Tripel to me, as there are others I enjoy more.

750 ml bottle. An unclear deep blonde ber with a huge, persistent and lacing white head. Excellent aroma, honeyish, hoppy and yeasty with notes of grass, flowers, fruits (lemon), spices (pepper). There is also a light touch of alcohol. the flavour is very well balanced, not overly sweet, instead with a good hopping and again spicy. Lightly acidic. Medium to full body, lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic, dry and quite long finish with medium bitterness. More refreshing and drinkable than expected and complex as expected. Very nice.

Bottle. Blonde body hazy with a white head. Orange peal, light brown sugar, hops citrus, cloves spices, and vanilla. Solid.