Triple
Brasserie Moulin D'Ascq

33 cl bottle poured into a snifter. It’s a beautiful copper color with fine foam, rich aromas, notes of fruit.
Taste is soft and quite sweet with well hidden alcohol, toasted grain, light floral notes. Spicy and fruit dominant.
Mouth is medium-full, medium carbonation.
Overall, organic ingredients and a brewmaster’s skill make this a good quality French triple.

Brasserie Moulin D'Ascq "Triple"
33cl brown glass bottle, "À consommer de préférence avant: AOU19 13117" and sampled on 24 June 2018
2.50€ @ Franprix, 82 rue Mouffetard, Paris, FR

Look: Hazy golden body beneath a full head of fluffy white foam. Very good head retention and lacing.
Smell: Floral, malty, fruity with orchard fruits and banana and orange, spicy with pepper, herbal.
Taste: As the aroma suggests with some additional wheat, tartness, spritz of lemon, and alcoholic strength. It's fairly complex, and it's alcohol adds an additional layer of character without standing out on its own or being negative or distracting in anyway - it's just the amount that you expect of a Belgian-style tripel.
Feel: Medium bodied and spritzy with a seemingly natural, fine-bubbled effervescent carbonation that bristles.
Overall: Quite nicely done. Well worth trying.
Review# 6,099

 

L - pours a golden colour with a beautiful white head that lasts

S - lots of esters

T - lots of estery taste too, banana and peach mostly, a bit of apricot and mango a bit of spices too. Tart followed by a big (maybe too big sweetness) and wheat

F - really nice carbonation, present but not too high. It doesn't get over the taste. The booze is not overwhelming even with the 8% abv

O - a pretty nice tripel. It'swhat you can expect from a tripel with a lot of fruits and pale malts flavours. Maybe too sweet though (you got to enjoy it not too warm!)

Enjoyed from the 750 ml bottle, this fine triple poured into a snifter is a lightly cloudy straw orange with a beautiful head of froth that dissipates to a moderate layer and fantastic lacing. Nose of Belgian candy sugar, a dash of coriander, sweet fresh baked bread, fruity esters from the yeast of bananas and apples, and some orange zest. Flavors exceed the nose with Belgian candy sugar on all sides-sweet and delicious, followed by a sweet and full fresh bread flavor that has all the aforementioned fruit flavors, as well as some lemon zest in there as well, followed by some light coriander notes. Exceptional quality with a full and rich mouth feel that finishes moderately sweet. This is exemplary of what good brewing techniques give you in a country as overlooked as France for their quality brews.

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11 ounce bottle into chalice, best before 12/2014. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy golden orange color with a 1 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of apricot, pear, apple, white grape, pepper, clove, honey, candi sugar, bread, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice aromas with good complexity and solid balance of fruity/spicy yeast and pale malt sweetness; with good strength. Very sweet smelling nose. Taste of apricot, pear, apple, white grape, pepper, clove, honey, candi sugar, bread, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Minimal bitterness and yeast spice on the finish; with lingering notes of apricot, pear, apple, white grape, honey, candi sugar, bread, and herbal/yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Good complexity and robustness of fruity/spicy yeast and pale malt sweetness; with a solid malt/yeast balance and minimal cloying sweetness after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a fairly slick/syrupy mouthfeel that is okay. The level of sweetness limits the drinkability. Alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a solid tripel style. All around good complexity and solid balance of fruity/spicy yeast and pale malt sweetness; and fairly smooth to drink. The high amount of sweetness does almost get cloying, but this was still fairly enjoyable.

From a bottle, pours a hazy golden color with a full creamy white head.

The smell is wheat, apples, sugar, yeast, a little banana and crystal malt. The flavor is sweet, lots of crystal malt, pineapple, a little chalk, sweet and sticky. The alcohol is really present and the beer coats your mouth like syrup.

This is really sweet and really sticky.

 

 

 

 

 

With incredible power, smoothness and varying taste, the northern French beer culture is no doubt, alive and well! Relative newcomers beer, their Tripel stands out with its certified organic designation, showing that quality and care is of utmost importance.

It starts out with a dark golden pour and a hazy hue that's somewhat honey-like. Bottle conditioned, a few specks of yeast sneaks into the glass and quickly settles to the bottom. Capped with a creamy white head that seems like whipped cream, its retention is long-lasting and its lace is intricate and consistent. Perhaps a bit dark, but the ale really represents the Tripel Ale really well.

Honey-like to the nose as well, its sweeter impressions carry an inherent floral component. Its bouquet links up to the esters seamlessly with notes of apples, peaches, pears and apricots. Somewhat "Fruit Roll-Up" like, its scent is further exacerbated with white pepper, clove and an earthen hop spice. Somewhat leafy, even the acidity of tomatoes play into the beers overall scent.

And just as sweet to taste as the nose suggests, a blend of honey, confectioner's sugar and a bready-biscuity taste latches onto the mouth. Its strong fruit flavors are of the slightly over-ripened varieties of peaches and apricots predominantly, but also apples, white grapes, figs and pear. Its spicy balance is of freshly grated white pepper and vinous white wine. Its hop counterpart is slightly bitter and playfully spicy and earthy- seemingly of lemongrass spice.

Mid-full in its mouthfeel, even the beer's racy carbonation does little to give much lift to the sweeter and heavier ale from the tongue. Its full saturation allows for a high level of appreciation of taste, but detracts from the dry effervesence that's delivered by Trappist Tripel makers. It lingers longer and heavier on the finish even with its spicy wine-like warmth.

Quite charming, rustic and with a plethora of authentic Belgian flavor, Moulin D'ascq Tripel drinks more like the Stronger Golden Ales like Piraat and Kasteel's Tripel.

Pours a hazy dark gold, with a dense head, and lots of carbonation. Smells spicey, slightly fruity, floral, exactly what it should be. Mouthfeel is much lighter in body than its Belgian counterpart, it's like a more drinkable version of a Tripel, not as rich, but all the usual Tripel style flavors are all there, spice, fruit, flowers, candy sugar... The alcohol content is concealed extremely well. Slightly hop presence for balance . Also certified organic- this is a wonderful effort from France. Definitely will buy again.

I bought this beer when I was on holiday in France.

A - An Amber colored, white headed beer. The head dissolves quickly and the fluid is hazy, without visible carbonation.

S - A good fresh smell of floral hops, sweetness and pine. Overall an inviting smell.

T - Exactly as the smell gave away, a fresh tasting beer with many fruit and pine tones.

M - A little to much carbonation and a heavy bitter aftertaste.

O - A very nice triple, worth buying.