Petrus Triple

Brewed by Bavik-De Brabandere
Style: Abbey Tripel
Harelbeke, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

Pours a slightly cloudy yellow-orange with a small egg-white head with decent retention. Aroma is apple cider and green grapes. Taste is dry and peppery with alcohol and light hopping in the finish. Some fruitiness - again, apples - but mostly dry and slightly musty. Really overcarbonated - I had to work out the carbonation on this one before I could really taste it. Unremarkable taste, more fruity than spicy, which is not what I’m looking for in a tripel. Doesn’t improve as it warms. I don’t think I like anything by Petrus, maybe I just don’t like their yeast?

33cl bottle. Pours a cloudy, pale yellow/straw with a medium-sized, long-lasting, white head. The aroma is strong - grassy and lightly peppery with malts, lots of fruit (muscat grapes, bananas and apples) and alcohol. The flavor starts very dry and musty. A light, floral, estery sweetness follows. The middle of the tongue has nice, sweet malts (caramel and pilsner malt), some fruity esters (golden delicious apples), some grassy and earthy hops, and a very subtle acidity (mostly from the high carbonation I think). The finish is dry and refreshing with touches of sweet, gold malt.The mouthfeel is light, slightly chalky, very dry, and very highly carbonated. It adds to the refreshing character of this brew. Overall, I liked this a lot and think that the RateBeer community seems to have under-valued this gem (its current average is only 3.32).

11.2oz bottle-pours a big foamy white head and yellow color. Aroma is yeasty, musty, vinegar/tart fruit with some sweetness. Taste is yeasty, medium malt-sweet apple, some tartness/vinegar, some spicy hops. Mild effervescence.

Bottled(330ml). -Pours a yellow colour with medium to big airy white head that went away very slowely and skunky yeast nose. Sweet malty, yeasty and fruity taste with notes of spices and hops. Mild alcoholic spicy finish.

Appearance: golden color. Great color, white, good adherence to glass and lasting. Aroma: pale malts. Intensive herbal, citric and some menthol hoppy smells. Some liquory, citric and mineralized aromatic’s touch. Flavor: ephemeral pale malts start. Progress of medium hop’s dryness with slight citric and mentholated touches, this remember the fresh-mint and eucalyptus. Peel-lemon and grapefruits fruit’s notes. Warming final with yeasty, light metal and mineralized aftertaste. Palate: medium body, silky texture and high carbonation. Persistent and nice dryness and excessive carbonated. Without greats qualities.

11.2 oz bottle. hazy golden pour with lingering head. very clean, dry swallow. very belgian.

Big funky spicey sour aroma from a cloudy golden body with a huge creamy white head. Sour and spice dominate iwth malt in teh back ground. Orange peel adn lemon flavors are present also. Medium mouth feel with heavy carbonation.

11.2 oz. glass bottle- color of pale yellow, with a thick frothy white head - nose of yeast, crisp, light spice, light colored fruit, and semi floral – taste of yeast, crisp, light spice, light sour fruit, and semi floral - body is medium, semi acidic, and with high carbonation – aftertaste of yeast, crisp, light spice, acidic