La Djean Triple
Microbrasserie Sainte-Hélène

La Djean TripleLa Djean Triple
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From:
Microbrasserie Sainte-Hélène
 
Belgium
Style:
Tripel
ABV:
9%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
3.78 | pDev: 9.79%
Reviews:
5
Ratings:
5
Status:
Retired
Rated:
May 28, 2011
Added:
Nov 08, 2006
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Reviewed by ThaCreep from Belgium

4.37/5  rDev +15.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
Fruity nose with a nice range of citrus but also the freshness of litchi. Mouth quite small, even sweet, tasting at first but soon caught up with a good bitter hops and a fruity citrus type (also known as the mandarin) which mingles with a mild hops. Easy drinking and full of flavor. She recalls the Seasons at the light and fruity side but the craft is that of a triple.
May 28, 2011
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Reviewed by wl0307 from England

3.85/5  rDev +1.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Coming in a 750ml green bottle, BB Feb. 2010, served lightly-chilled in Tripel Karmeliet's branded stemmed tulip-shaped goblet.

A: pours a very red amber hue, murky, with incredibly lively carbonation that helps to build up a thick off-white frothy head with o.k. retention.
S: intensely sweet fruity and syrupy malty, featuring notes of sweetened tangerine, perfumy vanilla, sour-sweet dried hawthorn-fruits and (faint) passion-fruits, leaving the typical estery edge (reminiscent of Chinese red-bean paste as well as "stinky" overripe banana-skins) hovering in the background. Pleasant, albeit slightly too sweet for the balance and not quite delicately complex (it does soften considerably as it warms, thankfully).
T: quite interestingly, the flavour is not so... "Tripel"-like to me; it's slightly quiet upfront, coming with sour-sweet prune-tea like and slightly nutty amber malts, intertwined with plentiful bready as well as musty yeastiness; then gradually the fragrant hops with a decent level of bitterness develops along with dried pink grapefruits, apple-ish notes, fig jelly and hawthorn-fruits, leaving quality malty undertones in the very end (at times even ringing a bell of German Bock, but of course added with lots of chewy yeasty bits) to complement the lingering fruity-yeasty elements.
M&D: the texture is, in my opinion, one of the most enjoyable qualities of this ale - the carbonation looks extremely hyper, for sure, but proves healthily effervescent on the palate, which is crucial, especially when the flavour profile is not so lively or complex that it actually is injected a lease of "life"; while the yeasty bits ensure a "filling" body apt to make this bottle almost a meal in itself. Plus, the alcoholic content is very well hidden, actually too well that it's never picked up by my senses. Overall, this is a very different "Triple" (as it self-acclaims), but with or without this labelling I find it a highly drinkable amber ale all the same.
Apr 21, 2009
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Reviewed by Absumaster from Netherlands

3.48/5  rDev -7.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
A 750 mL bottle just for myself. An orange, amber beer with a lacey and frothy head.

Smell of toffee, malt, fruity and some higher alcohols. A trace of oxidation is in the beer.

Taste is fruity in a Belgian way, some higher alcohols. A yeast dominated beer supported by some light malty notes, giving toffee, caramel and a bit of biscuit. Bitterness is quite high, it develops during the bottle. It is balanced by the beer's full body which is sticky and sweet. This inhibits it's drinkability.
Apr 13, 2009
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Reviewed by stcules from Italy

3.31/5  rDev -12.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
A good cherry color, quite dark. Little hazyness. Light beige head, creamy, beautiful.
Fruity smell, of red fruit. On the sweet side, but not cloying. The alcohol (9 ABV) is not perceptible.
Full taste, malty, with red fruit. Well hidden alcohol. Sweetish again.
Quite full in body.
The aftertaste starts sweet, even with some melon. But not long.
Mar 31, 2008
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Reviewed by dogfooddog from Panama

3.9/5  rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Noted on bottle as Ambree 9%.

This 750ml bottle pours slightly dark orange with a large fluffy white head. Nose is far more reminiscent of a belgian amber than a triple - the slightly bitter, almost buttery odor is the main feature, with lesser hints of normal belgian yeasty or floral odors. Do not believe I have had a triple amber beer before, though other beers from this brewery have been very decent.

Taste is slightly bready, very malty, and a decent sense of alcohol. That bitter-butter sense I get in many belgian ambers is present here (presumably an artifact of how malt is roasted/handled?), and really the only thing that tells me blind that this isn't just another amber beer is the alcohol, clearly over the normal 6%or so for ambree.

Very nice beer, and somewhat original to boot. I do recommend the products from this brewery that I have had to date (2 more I have not tried in the frig ready to go...)

bottle from belgianshop.
Nov 08, 2006
La Djean Triple from Microbrasserie Sainte-Hélène
Beer rating: 3.78 out of 5 with 5 ratings