Pater Lieven Tripel

Brewed by Van Den Bossche
Style: Abbey Tripel
St. Lievens-Esse/Herzele, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

Bottle 33 cl, ØlKonsortiet. Pours clear amber with a big fluffy white head leaving nice lacing. Aroma is malty, yeasty, sweet, hoppy, hay and spicy. Flavor is acidy, sweet, malty, fruity, candy, caramel, apples and lightly bitter. Finishes sweet malty and a bit bitter.

Golden fizzy body with a white head. Yeasty aroma with banana and cereal. Harsh palate. Ok flavour with banana and some spices.

20/11/2011 33cl bottle @ home - BB: impossible to tell, smudged ink (2011-658)

Clear bright orange beer, big off-white head, unstable, adhesive. Aroma: oranges, herbal, bit flowery, spicy peppery, candi sugar, some alcohol. MF: too much carbon, light to medium body, bit alcoholic. Taste: oranges, bit sweet, mainly citric sour and lemony, some spices. Aftertaste: orange peel, tangerines, sour and some candi sugar. Bad example of a tripel if you ask me.

UPDATED: NOV 30, 2011 Bottle. Grainy aroma with some orange, spice, rather retrained. Deep gold, clear, with a high,foamy, fine head. Sweet flavor of honey and biscuit, orange, cereals. Somewhat light, very bubbly but soft, decent hop bitterness at the finish. Actually a very nice hoppiness when it’s fresh.

Bottle. Bright golden color, medium white head, decent lacing. Aroma of caramel and spice. Taste is white pepper and hay. Nice enough.

head: bubbly, white
colour: hazy, blond
smell: honey, hops, sweet, malts, sweetcorn, yeasty
taste: sweetcorn, yeasty, hopy, spicey, malts, sweet, citric, end is dry with grassy aftertaste

UPDATED: JUL 9, 2011 Bottle. Poured a hazy pale with a creamy white head that settled to a ring and left light lace. Aroma of green grapes and a light farmhouse backing. The flavor found green grapes, yeast, and hints of dark fruits. Light to medium body. Light tart up front but with a sweet ending.

Bottle. Color amber with medium head. Aroma orange, apricot, spicy. Taste apricot, spicy, dry, hop, sweet.