’t Hofbrouwerijke Bosprotter

Brewed by ’t Hofbrouwerijke
Style: Abbey Tripel
Beerzel, Belgium

Bottle @ TFODRBSG, Ulfborg, 2008.
[thank you, plovmand]
Pours muddy yellow with a small, creamy, white hazy film head. Aroma has lots of yeast with some vinious spiciness. Fine mouthfeel, though it is a bit grainy. Flavour is equally grainy, lots of yeasty notes. Feels a bit out of balance with harsh spiciness.
Earlier Rating: 11/18/2007 Total Score: 3.4
Bottle, bought @ Willems, Grobbendonk. Pours a rather dark oranges with a small, slightly fizzy but still creamy white head. Aroma is very fruity, orange peel, clemtines, peach, apples, pineapple. Lively mouthfeel with small bubbles. Flavour is relatively sweet with a rather present yeastiness. Apart from that, there is plenty of fruitiness and a slightly tartness at the end. Some hops drop in as well. Quite nice Tripel.

Bottled at home. Beer gushed out after opening. Extremely cloudy appearence, dark orange/honey coloured, small head. Yeasty nose, citrus, spices and alcohol. Bitter and sour flavour, some malts, yeasty. Alcoholic finish. Thin mouthfeel. Nice name, poor beer.

750mL bottle, courtesy of argo0. Thanks, Aaron! Pours a murky, dull orange-amber color; textured off-white head with good retention and fine-bubbled lacing. Nice amounts of honey, lime and mineral hop bitterness, and a decently complex yeast character in the aroma; dry and toasty, with some honeyed sweetness. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: chewy honey, tea-like malts, and solid yeastiness upfront; a touch sweet, but generally well integrated and generous in its (albeit straightforward) flavor notes: honey, toasted malts, and crackers, with a touch of yellow fruits; reasonably drinkable and tasty tripel, but nothing exceptional here. Lengthy finish: sweet honeyed maltiness, toasty malts, crackers, and some tea-like malts.

(750ml bottle) Medium off-white head atop cloudy amber body with some yeast flecks. Aroma is medium sweet, yeast, light bubblegum, earthy. Taste is medium sweet, yeast, some fruit (orange/peach), spicy/earthy. Medium body, alcohol well hidden.

33cl, exclusive brewery, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex, balanced, cloudy, good head, good brew

Bottled. Hazy amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is fruits, peas and some hops along with some mild spicing. Flavour is fruits, some yeast, a bit perfumeishlike as well as quite earthy. Beware of "fireworks" when opening.

Bottled (BB 10/2009)
Very lively beer, 20 of 33cl survived to glass. Spicey, leafy and grainy aroma. Grainy, peppery, alcoholic, fruity (peach) notes. Aftertaste is mainly fruity and a bit soapy. Some aromatic hops stops by in the finish. Not very tripel-like, could be almost a brew from Fantome. Propably quality varies in these bottles as well.

Hazy dark gold amber with a light yellowish khaki head. The aroma is spicy with lotsw of cinnamon and pears. There is also some funky leather and dandelions. The taste is initially very spicy with cinnamon and black pepper. The finish is woody and a little dry, evne after the sweet pear like fruit middle. A decent, and possibly the spiciest tripel I have ever tried.