’t IJ Zatte

Brewed by Brouwerij ’t IJ
Style: Abbey Tripel
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

On tap in De Ooievaar. Creamy. Yellow, cloudy colour. Citrusy taste. Very tasty and quite enjoyable. Spicy and fruity tastes, develop into long finish.

Bottle. Creamy white excellent fully lasting head. Yellow colour. Heavy hoppy and yeasty aroma. Not great but powerfull flavor with heavy mango notes. Long finish. Creamy palate. Not my favorite.

(Draught at Monk’s Café, Stockholm, 2 Feb 2007) Orange colour with huge, but brief, white head, leaving some lacing. Fruity nose with distinct citrussy notes of orange, Seville orange and citrus peel. Fruity, spicy taste with apricots, orange, Seville orange and a fresh, spicy finish. This was quite a nice and tasty beer, actually.

Pours a hazy orangey blonde color with a thin white head. Classic tripel aroma and flavor of belgian yeast and citrus. The body is light to medium with a creamy texture and gentle carbonation. This tripel doesn’t have anything new or original to offer, it’s just well-made and enjoyable and I don’t mind at all.

This seems pretty lightweight for a tripel, but it is tasty. Hazy gold in color, it’s got a sustained white head that does only spotty lacing. The aroma is fruity, apples & pineapples & some citric tartness, with a slightly funky note. The latter builds somewhat in the flavor, but the fruit tastes remain strong and a soft soapy yeast is added. It finishes on a dry, mildly tart note. Pretty nice.

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Looked just like one’d expect from a tripel: hazy murky golden orange with a good head which lasted nicely. The aroma was typical ’t IJ & sweet with strong earthy musky notes. Good full & rounded taste pretty sweet for a tripel even. Nice.

Draught at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Hazy golden, minimal head. Yeasty grassy nose. Medium bodied with soft mouthfeel. Dryish with some citrus and the evident yeasty ’t IJ house character. Still it’s balanced and suprisingly drinkable for it’s size. An invidualtistic, very likable beer.

Draught at Monks Café, Stockholm. Hazy golden appearance with a low sticky white head. Sweet aroma of pine-apples, almond paste, cinnamon and yeast. Flavourvise, it starts quite sweet of pine-apples, red apples and white bread but is nicely balanced of of dryish grassy hops. Long aftertaste of grassy hops, yeast and sweet apricot.