Tripel Karmeliet

what an amazing beer. It was full in body with a good amount of head. The flavor was complex and delicious. You could taste the flavors of yeast, fruit, and some spice but they blended together so well. This beer embodies everything an abbey tripel should be.

[1158-20080301] Tap. Wheat yeast bread aroma with a bit of sweet leafy hops. Clear, golden yellow body with a medium-lasting creamy white head. Wheatie yeasty bread continues in flavour with some perfume characteristics. Medium body is smooth. Rather drinkable, good.
(ZBF 2008; Sint Niklaas, BE)

on draft @ Maproom, Chicago. Great tripel. Pours a beautiful slightly cloudy blone with nice full fluffy head. Aromas of spice, fruit & citrus. Great creamy mouthfeel full of spice, light maltiness 7 sweetness. Very good beer

Sample at Aarhus beerfestival. Nice head with good duration. Color is pale golden. Aroma and taste are yeast, fruit and notes of citrus.

Golden pour,thin head. complex flavor, citrus, fruity. Remains highly enjoyable.

[330ml bottle from Sainsbury’s, Reading] ABV seems to vary - have seen it at 8% and 8.1%, but this bottle was 8.4%! Fresh herbal/ floral small with some malt. Very warming in the mouth - the alcohol certainly comes through. Taste is orange and coriander (both the herbal leaves and the spicey seeds come through seeds come through). There’s definitely something sweet and tropical in the background that I couldn’t quite pin down - maybe mango? Some pepper in there too, but the over-riding feeling is freshness, like an easily quaffable golden ale for the summer (a dangerous taste indeed given the strength!). Some slight bitterness in the aftertaste, along with more pepper and an odd syrupy mouthfeel that doesn’t quite work with the rest of the beer. Overall though this is top-notch stuff.

Bottle 33 cl. Pours a pale golden with a small foamy white head and fresh aroma of ripe citrus fruits. The flavor is sweet with a sticky mouthfeel, bt very pleasant. A long sweet and spicey finish to round it off. I usually don’t like tripels, but this one rules!

0.33l bottle. Pours clear amber colour, with a good thick off white head which dissapears very quickly to leave it looking like cider! Very drinkable fruity pale ale, spicy taste and a pleasant sour aftertaste with a mild hint of alcohol. Very good beer.