Tripel Karmeliet

Brewed by Brouwerij Bosteels
Style: Abbey Tripel
Buggenhout, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

Pours a brown color with a fairly large white foamy head. At first smell, I get plums and cherries. It also smells of sugar and some wheat. Taste is fairly sweet, sweeter than I initially expected. I taste plums and pear mixed in with the sugar. Some figs and spice round out the taste of this one. A pretty solid beer much to my delight!

330 ml bottle at The Royale on their Tripels night. Pours a cloudy gold color with a two-finger thick, foamy bone white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast, honey, floral hops, lemon citrus, white grapes, candi sugar, apricot, and grainy malts. Flavor of Belgian yeast, candi sugar, white grapes, wheat, honey, and floral notes. Medium-bodied, with a yeasty mouthfeel and frothy carbonation. Just a little tartness kicks in late. To me, this is one of the best examples of a tripel out there.

330 ml bottle @ home.
Pours a slightly hazy golden colour with a big and foamy white head. Leaves a decent lacing. Aroma of citrus, malts and flowers. Sweet taste with notes of honey, fruits, wheat, spices and mild hops. Medium bodied, oily texture with low carbonation. Decent.

Draught at the Broad Street Tavern, Wokingham during their Belgian Beer Festival. Pale gold with scummy looking thin cream head; coriander aroma; rich, buttery texture in the mouth with apricot fruit flavours, served rather too cold to get the full depth of flavour; the finish is dry with more coriander. Excellent.

Bottle: Nice white foamy head. Clear orange color. Smell lots of fruit, malts, sweets, sugars, hint of hops and spices. Taste is a pefectly mix of fruits (pear, peach), malts, sugars. Also hints of spices, herbs, honey and yeast. Bit creamy, perfect carbonation (lively enough), not really bitter, more sweet and a great glass this beer comes in.

Just got curious and decided to try some new stuff and was told this was pretty good. Definitely on my "top beer list".

Bottle. Pours an elegant, clear golden body with foamy, rich white head into my newly-purchased (and equally elegant) Karmeliet tulip glass. Nose is complex and beautiful: sweet blossomy honey notes with hints of Belgian yeast, citric aromas and candy sugar. Taste is mellow candy sugar, yeast, grapes and wheat. Smooth flavor, albeit with a slightly tart finish. Warming alcohol. Body is medium and well-balanced. Nevertheless, it somehow lacks something of that undefined "extra" that would make me go down on my knees. Very, very solid tripel, though, and definitely among the top of my list.

Clear orange colour. Initially a lively frothy white head. High carbonation. Bitter aroma of citrus with a hint of spice. Lively texture. Spice and herb in the flavour. Potent alcoholic hints with a bitter finish.