Westmalle Tripel

Brewed by Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle
Style: Abbey Tripel
Malle, Belgium

bottle. Poured hazy, straw coloured with an extra large rocky white head. Active carbonation visable. Aroma is spicy clove and yeast. Alcohol hits you at first sip. Medium bodied, warming mouthfeel. Flavour is peppery, grapefruit peel, perfumey. Finishes lightly dry. I just can’t bring myself to like this style of beer and over rate them like so many beer drinkers do, but I did finish the bottle.

A great Trappist Tripel. Loved the dubbel too. Great balance of tart citrus, spicy clove, light candi sugar and malt sweetness, and some bready yeast.

75cl corked and wired bottle. Pours a hazy pale golden yellow with sky-high, frothy white head with great retention and generous lacing. Beautiful beer! Citrusy aroma with yeast and herbal spices on the nose. Medium-bodied triple with heavy, but earthy mouth feel. Active carbonation. Taste is dry indeed, with banana, yeast, herbal spices and a bitter alcoholic note dominating. Finish is dry, with a noticeable alcoholic after taste (at 9.5 %, this is hardly surprising). A welcome departure from the many overly sweet Belgian tripels I’ve drunk (Grimbergen, Kasteel, etc), this one is for grown-ups only! ;=) I won’t drink a great number of these, but they’re characterful, individual and imaginative. Very good Belgian beer!

Weird tasting. Minty dry bitterness with a plasticy undertone. I was really disappointed. For a little bit I thought it was lightly refreshing, but the flavor got more and more unfortunate to me.

11.2 ounce bottle from BevMo ($5.49). Pours into Chimay goblet a golden honey amber with generous white head composed of very tiny bubbles. Aroma of spice, yeast, banana. Taste is lightly sweet and very dry with flavors of yeast, spice, banana, and citrus. Finish is also very dry with noticeable alcohol. Good, but not as good as I might have thought considering the source. But then, I wasn’t very impressed with the Westmalle dubbel either.

Bottle. Pours a hazy golden color with a very large, frothy white head. The head is ridiculous. Aromas of bananas, toasted malts, wheat, and light citrus. Extremely lively palate to start with a creamy, tart finish. Flavors of bananas, wheat, and light pine. Good beer.

Pours a dark yellow color with a big white head. Fruity nose, same taste, finishes with a little spice and very strong. Very good beer overall, definitely recommending to friends.

Not a bad trappiste, but nothing special. Has a nice fruitiness to it, bananas, red berries and black licorice on the nose. Has a very delicate taste and foamy mouthfeel.