Moinette Blonde

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

Hazy golden with a big and looong lasting white head. Fruity yeast aroma with bubblegum and pineapple. Dry and fruity with some bitterness, leading to a peppery finish and a hop aftertaste. Excellent.

Pours a hazy pale yellow with a chunky white head that lasts. Sweet aroma of yeast and ripe fruits. Flavor is similar, and very good. Some alcohol on the finish. Another good Belgian.

Someone was kind enough to share a 75 cl corked bottle and I had a glass. Looked golden with a small head when poured carefully and a really sweet and fruity aroma. The flavor is really fruity for a triple. Heavy on ripe fruits, punes, grapes, mango, apple and berries but most of all ripe and heavily sweet. I liked it, but wouldn’t have called this a triple.

750 corked brown bottle bought at the SAQ A: nice golden wheat colour almost no head, some carbonation S: complex nose, spices, some yeast, T: intense flavour, some tartness, coriander, spices, complex, M: good boby, round, long D: this is a nice complex ale.

2008-03-04. Hazy pastel yellow, nice foamy white head and excellent lacing (4+). Aroma is muted at first, mild yeast, muted bready pale malt. (6+) Dry flavour, light alcohol throughout, light bitterness, mild pale malt. Alcohol and more bitterness lingers. (6+) Average palate. Nice, but I expected a bit more from it.
On Tap at Bier Circus, Brussels

Bouteille 750 ml. Mousse très abondante qui reste et qui reste très longtemps. Bière de couleur jaune paille dorée voilée. Au nez des arômes de pommes, citron, d’agrumes, poires, miel, d’alcool et d’épices viennent percuter nos voies nasales. En bouche la bière est ronde et nous donnes un point de rencontre avec des flaveurs de pommes rouges, de pommes vertes, de poires, d’agrumes, de miel et d’ananas. Le tout se termine par une petite amerturme plaisante qui s’étale comme un nuage à perte de vue. Bonne bière assez complexe.

(bottle): Pours an amber color body, cloudy, sediment in bottom. Big white head, creamy, somewhat lasting. Belgian flowery aroma, some grapes, musky, dusty. Old world smelling. Flowery, sweet taste. Sour aftertaste. Not as belgian ale, but more like a gueze. Interesting taste, some alcohol.

Straw gold. Huge head that lasts longer than the glass...citrus, wet grass, musty belgian farmhouse yeast, bit of peppery spice in there too. Delicious in Summer. Alcohol not a massive stand-out. Hides its strength. A must try for belgian farmhouse fans.