3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Hazy golden color; Medium slightly creamy body; Aroma of yeast, hops, clove, & spice; Flavor of sweet malt, yeast, fruit, hops, spice, and some citrus; Finish is slightly bitter; Nicely balanced & complex; An excellent tripel overall.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Orange, good head. Spices and almost dark fruits in the aroma and the taste.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Golden beer with a big and blond head. Aroma is nice and fresh, fruits, bananas and spicyness. Taste is fruitfull, some bananas, alcohol and peppery spicyness. Overally, taste is simple and uninspirating. Nice to drink with strong carbonation. More complexicity and alcohol should be totally hidden, now Westmalle is only medium Tripel.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle, 33 cl. Pours yellow with a nice white head. Aroma is nice and flowery yeasty, citrus, caramel, hayish malts, notes of ripe orange and pineapple. A bit of farmhouse like musty yeast notes. Taste is more robust, a very clear yeast component, flowery and sweet, taste of orange and pineapple, hayish and caramel malts. A bit peppery and spicy in the background. Very balanced, and the yeast component is very nice. Indeed a nice tripel. But I like the Dulle Teve a tad more than this one.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Wow, what a shame I never drank this one before. This is for sure the mother of all tripels. Poured out of bottle being golden coloured, forming a nice 1,5 finger head. Aroma has little raisins, some yeast and subtle spices like rosemary and lavender. It goes down incredibly well for a 9%. Full bodied and round. Taste is soft and sweet, bitter a light hoppy bitter kick to it.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
SCHIUMA:
schiuma abbondante, bianca, non finissima abbastanza persistente
COLORE:
oro chiaro con tonalità arancio, leggermente velata
INTENSITA’ / FINEZZA / AROMA
profuma di frutta matura, con un fondo classico e consistente di lievito, in cui si insinua il malto con note caramello e zucchero, il tutto condito con un profumo alcolico piuttosto evidente.
GUSTO / RETROGUSTO / PERSISTENZA
entra dolce, fruttata, con una coda leggermente acidula, per poi lasciare libero sfogo a sensazioni alcoliche che lottano con un amaro finale abbastanza evidente, che lascia a momenti ritornare il malto in primo piano per poi prendere nuovamente il sopravvento nel restrogusto, con qualche nota speziata.
CORPO / CARBONATAZIONE / CONSISTENZA
copro medio, ben carbonata, da soprattutto sul finale una sensazione alcolica e di calore in gola.
-Buona, godibile con un tasso alcolico elevato ma non fastidioso. L’amaro finale la rende più dinamica, non permettendole di cadere in un dolce noioso. Le sfumatire fruttate ed il classico belgian style sono ben calibrati dando un prodotto completo e di qualità. bevuta accompagnando dei buoni formaggi francesi a pasta molle e con sapori molto intensi. abbinamento ben riuscito, dove ben pochi vini potrebbero reggere il confronto.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Pours tanslucent orange-gold with clumpy white head. Aroma is of Belgian yeast, alcohol, sweet malts. Tastes of slight banana, slight clove but overwhelmed by alcohol taste. Very strong, fizzy carbonation mouthfeel. I think this may have been an older bottle
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: AUG 31, 2011 Bottle: pours a beautiful orange with a white head that slowly dissipates into slight lacing. Smells of citrus and a floral mild spice. Flavors consist of everything from an earthiness to the aforementioned citrus which is not as pronounced as the smell makes you think it will be. The aftertaste is the first time that you notice the alcohol as everything else fades away.
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