’t IJ Zatte

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

sweet citrus aroma. cloudy yellow with a medium sized white head. woody, olive flavors mixed with a tripel. not diggin’ this one.

33 cL. Bottle. It pours a medium pale color with a white head and slick lacing. The nose has fresh fruit and malt aromas. The flavor is spicy, and full of malt but also with a tart acidy finish. It has a nice dry and crisp mouthfeel. Very well done beer.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours hazy gold with a white head. Aroma of fruit, citrus, and spices. The flavor is fruit, alcohol, citrus, and spice. Great beer.

Pours golden colored with lasting effervescence. Sediment begins flowing out of the bottle after pouring about six ounces. The chunks just hang out in the glass like bubble tea. Smells pretty light and sugary. Tastes malty sweet with the slightest tang and a decent hop finish. I would only drink this again if someone bought it for me.

Errr, ugh, what happened. I only got to try three of the ’t Ij brews and they started good but then plummeted with each succession. This I couldn’t stomach. I suspected yeast infection but the taste was distinct and not related to top fermenting yeast’s by-products. Yes, well, poured a cloudy, even muddy gold with, what was noticeable, very very fine streams of slow to release carbonation. Head rose, a rocky thick pad of beige foam that laced well. Nutty (peanut butter, Nutella™ maybe) aroma with some dank, stale white wine, dank wood, sweaty sock and a little ’too late to be picked’ fruit (I tasted this two months ago, my notes ramble the aroma and flavour, with much profanity, so I’ll keep it simple). Tart, puckering and astringent as the first mouthful enters and exits. A little sweetness dwells upfront. Dry in back, harsh, solventy. Heavily yeasty, soggy carpet here, dank, unclean, with a severe irreversible nutty edge. Higher alcohols play, as they will, this leaked raw alcohol especially at the swallow where it abetted notes of hazelnut praline, used band-aids and plasticine. What happened here. My notes were very long for this one yet I may be barred from using such comments on the site. Bad sample? my point of view? Or just a laxed Tripel? Not my thing!! (33cL, No.20, Int’l Beer Shop, W. Leederville)

Hazy golden color,nice off white head that had a good hang time then faded leaving a slight lace behind.The aroma was fruity with some good hints of citrus and light malt with maybe a slight sweet side voming through.The flavor was sweet and malty with a good citrusy side coming through to go along with a sort of heavy feeling on the pallate,i also detect a sort of metallic side in the finish but it’s not something that detracts from the over all flavor or experience of the brew.Very nice and well worth trying again.

UPDATED: OCT 4, 2006 Bottle. Medium white head upon a hazy golden/orange body. Fresh acidic fruit aromas; oranges, green apples and dried fruits. Flavor is sweet and fruity with yeast and spices. Nice long acidic/bitter finish. Alcohol is well hidden. Smooth mothfeel. Very nice.

Bottle sampled with Beerded_one. Pours hazy golden with a 2 finger thick white head with good retention. Aroma of fruit (almost lambic -like), citrus, belgian yeast and spices. The flavor is fruit, spices, yeast, some bitterness, and a small alcohol kick. Good body, good brew.