Westmalle Tripel

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Absurd complexity, a must-have for the belgian beer lovers. Nice cottonish and puffy head with really nice sparkles that tickles fantastically. The colour is glowy as a fresh pale orange around Chernobyl. I definitely suggest to try without the bottom yeast first. The aroma is a long trip between a sweet italian candy cherry first, then a bitter -anesthetized by big alcohol percentage- hops pops out leaving space for a dry vanilla ice cream ending.

11.2 ounce bottle. Pours a hazy golden yellow with a four inch white head. Taste is of yeast, wheat, spice and alcohol. Similar aroma. Has a decent body. Overall, it’s not bad, but not as good as what I had hoped.

Nice aroma of slight spice, banana, and fruit. Huge fluffy white head that lasts forever. Pale yellow in color with lively carbonation. Nice bold taste of spice, fruity essence, slight alcohol, some yeasty notes, with a dry slighlty bitter finish.

Bottle into a fluted glass. Pours dark amber with a big pillow of cream head. Aroma of candi sugar, plums, raisins, spice, a bit vegetal. Taste is big on the dark fruits and sugar. Definitely a sipper. Nice and warming.

Pours slightly hazy golden with a massive fluffy head that has superb retention. Smell of sweet caramel and malts, yeasty banana, spices, citrus and honey. Taste starts sweet and earthy, bitter builds up into an extremely long aftertaste. In the meantime, the fruits, citrus, spices and yeast make an appearance. Strong carbonation. Aftertaste is dry, bitter and long. Well balanced. Brilliant trappist beer.

UPDATED: MAY 20, 2013 Thank you Bert! Pours cloudy lemon yellow with a perfect white head of soft foam. Excellent retention and handsome lace. This beer glowed in the glass and was perfect to look at. Nose is banana, apricot, bubblegum, pale malt, lightly yeasty, complex and layered. Slightly medicinal. Some floral and hay. Perfumey with honey and light biscuit. There’s a quick breath of orange peel and a just enough spice. Taste follows the nose all the way. Buoyant on the palate, vivacious, balanced, supple and creamy. There’s a little clove on the palate that wasn’t on the nose as much. Finishes dry and slightly sticky.

This beer is outstanding, cultivated and refined. It’s not assuming but it is assured and significant in it’s exceptional character. A well done tripel like this is a sweet delight.

It is slightly different bitter, its Iceland Moss bitter that goes in boiling water to make tea against symptoms for cough. Alcohol doesn’t bite, slighty sweet plum or white grapes taste as is the smell but the bitterness really hangs on to every tastebud, it is ok at the beginning, nicer at the end if moss-tea is Your thing.

Blonde claire, pétillance aussi fine que sa mousse. Epicée, florale, un rien fruitée, pétillance persistante, légère astringence sur la fin. Un peu trop de goût d’alcool...

33 cl bottle. Hazy yellow with a huge white head. Spiced, slight acidic and yeasty aroma. Taste has caramel, malts and yeast. One of the better tripels out there.

venivo da due settimane troppo devastanti per poter esprimere un giudizio pieno..rimando il tutto ad un secondo assaggio