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Abbaye De Floreffe Triple
Brasserie Lefèbvre SA
- From:
- Brasserie Lefèbvre SA
- Belgium
- Style:
- Tripel
Ranked #191 - ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- 85
Ranked #21,030 - Avg:
- 3.77 | pDev: 10.34%
- Reviews:
- 107
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 25, 2024
- Added:
- Nov 18, 2002
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 23
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Ratings by biboergosum:
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.75/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
330ml bottle, at 8% ABV, another part of the '1/2 Meter of Beer' mixed pack available here in Alberta.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber hue, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and eventually Dairy Queen creamy opal head, which leaves a proper array of sudsy webbed lace all around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.
It smells of semi-sweet bready caramel malt, buttered white bread, a warm orchard fruitiness - peach, pear, and overripe apple - mixed table pepper, mildly spicy yeast, honeyed candi sugar, and a bristling, nose-twitching alcohol astringency. The taste is bready, somewhat biscuity pale malt, more booze-tinged apple, pear, and banana generic fruit bowl sweetness, sugary, floral field honey, active yeast bitterness, and a sidling, well-knowing, and sort of metallic edginess.
The bubbles are pretty well sublimated, barely a wisp of their initial splendour to be found at this mid point in the game, the body just on the lee side of a steady medium weight, and so-so smooth, the yeast and alcohol having their way right now. It finishes still on the sweet side, as things go, the caramel malt, additional sugars - alcohol and otherwise - kind of collaborating on the death knell (to me, at least) of this particular offering.
For the style, this does well enough, I suppose, providing a sweet, yeasty, and above all, boozy sort of experience. However, I am quite on the fence about such a plainly one-sided kind of deal - where be the hops, at least in the basest interest of balance? This comes off as an example of a beer that all the platitudes and pandering in the world wouldn't be able to deter those who think that it's actually all that good of an idea in the first place.
Jun 12, 2014This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber hue, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and eventually Dairy Queen creamy opal head, which leaves a proper array of sudsy webbed lace all around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.
It smells of semi-sweet bready caramel malt, buttered white bread, a warm orchard fruitiness - peach, pear, and overripe apple - mixed table pepper, mildly spicy yeast, honeyed candi sugar, and a bristling, nose-twitching alcohol astringency. The taste is bready, somewhat biscuity pale malt, more booze-tinged apple, pear, and banana generic fruit bowl sweetness, sugary, floral field honey, active yeast bitterness, and a sidling, well-knowing, and sort of metallic edginess.
The bubbles are pretty well sublimated, barely a wisp of their initial splendour to be found at this mid point in the game, the body just on the lee side of a steady medium weight, and so-so smooth, the yeast and alcohol having their way right now. It finishes still on the sweet side, as things go, the caramel malt, additional sugars - alcohol and otherwise - kind of collaborating on the death knell (to me, at least) of this particular offering.
For the style, this does well enough, I suppose, providing a sweet, yeasty, and above all, boozy sort of experience. However, I am quite on the fence about such a plainly one-sided kind of deal - where be the hops, at least in the basest interest of balance? This comes off as an example of a beer that all the platitudes and pandering in the world wouldn't be able to deter those who think that it's actually all that good of an idea in the first place.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by BucBasil from Rwanda
3.74/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Poured from the 330ml swingtop bottle into a wine glass. Upon opening, the bottle popped like a champagne bottle. The beer is a cloudy pure orange colour, topped with an off-white head that bursts out of the bottle. Moderate retention.
Smell: slightly sweet with hints of honey, toast, and Belgian yeast. Apple and maybe pear. Some earthy spice.
Taste: a bit dull after the smell. Light fruits and honey. Balancing bready malt. Average.
Feel: a bit thin for the style.
Overall: An average Belgian tripel, but even that is better than all beers here in Rwanda.
May 27, 2022Smell: slightly sweet with hints of honey, toast, and Belgian yeast. Apple and maybe pear. Some earthy spice.
Taste: a bit dull after the smell. Light fruits and honey. Balancing bready malt. Average.
Feel: a bit thin for the style.
Overall: An average Belgian tripel, but even that is better than all beers here in Rwanda.
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.49/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
330 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 7.5%. Deep golden colour, pours very fizzy with a huge white head. Moderate but pleasant aroma with spicy and fruity (orange peel) notes. The flavour is fairly sweet with some spicy notes, acceptable hops in the finish.
May 13, 2022Reviewed by elnachooo from Spain
3.5/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
De color ámbar, con una espuma cremosa de buena retención. Ligera y de carbonatación media. Aroma floral y a levadura. En boca predomina el dulzor gracias a la presencia de miel.
Apr 23, 2021Reviewed by vernardico from Mexico
4.23/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Served from a 330 ml bottle.
Pours a dark golden color, almost orange. A bit hazy. Good look, as the head goes all the way up of the tulip glass.
Very nice head, with big bubbles, medium duration and good retention. Medium to high carbonation.
Smell is fruity. Apple like. A bit alcoholic with hints yeasty, maybe.
The flavor is, as in many belgians, rather sweet. Apple like, yeasty and a bit bready. The alcohol is there too, normal for its 8%. Nice hoppy finish, soft and dry biterness at the end.
For a tripel, i found this rather refreshing.
I think this is a very good beer. Not the best belgian, or tripel, of course. But its very enjoyable, and i can keep drinking this.
Jul 26, 2020Pours a dark golden color, almost orange. A bit hazy. Good look, as the head goes all the way up of the tulip glass.
Very nice head, with big bubbles, medium duration and good retention. Medium to high carbonation.
Smell is fruity. Apple like. A bit alcoholic with hints yeasty, maybe.
The flavor is, as in many belgians, rather sweet. Apple like, yeasty and a bit bready. The alcohol is there too, normal for its 8%. Nice hoppy finish, soft and dry biterness at the end.
For a tripel, i found this rather refreshing.
I think this is a very good beer. Not the best belgian, or tripel, of course. But its very enjoyable, and i can keep drinking this.
Reviewed by OlaB from Norway
3.67/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a murky dark-golden color with a medium top of white head that dissolves in a normal pace and leaves some decent lacings on the glass.
Aroma is of apples,pears, honey, bread, spices and floral hops.
The taste is sweet and fruity with light malty and bready tones. The finish is slightly dry with notes of spicy yeast and floral hops. The flavour is a little weak and unballanced. Mouthfeel is soft and clean with a medium carbonation and a medium body.
A good and drinkable triple by all accounts, but lacks a little to be a really good one.
Jan 06, 2019Aroma is of apples,pears, honey, bread, spices and floral hops.
The taste is sweet and fruity with light malty and bready tones. The finish is slightly dry with notes of spicy yeast and floral hops. The flavour is a little weak and unballanced. Mouthfeel is soft and clean with a medium carbonation and a medium body.
A good and drinkable triple by all accounts, but lacks a little to be a really good one.
Reviewed by The_Bujon from Ireland
3.96/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured badly into a Karmaleit tulip glass.....eeeeek the explosion of foam was complete amateur.
It settled to a reasonable head, but quickly dissipated into a dishwater film, a bit disappointing.
Getting the nose in there and a malty, boozy wave hits you, not as expected.
Taste is sharp, sweet, and full of malt. Despite it's name, there is no sign of flora with this brew. You'll be greeted with a fizzy toffee type sensation, which does leave a 'come back for more' film on the tongue.
Feel is ok, a little artificial, and after that decent taste sensation, your mouth does dry up pretty quickly.
Overall, a solid tripel, not the best, but still a pretty decent brew
Dec 16, 2017It settled to a reasonable head, but quickly dissipated into a dishwater film, a bit disappointing.
Getting the nose in there and a malty, boozy wave hits you, not as expected.
Taste is sharp, sweet, and full of malt. Despite it's name, there is no sign of flora with this brew. You'll be greeted with a fizzy toffee type sensation, which does leave a 'come back for more' film on the tongue.
Feel is ok, a little artificial, and after that decent taste sensation, your mouth does dry up pretty quickly.
Overall, a solid tripel, not the best, but still a pretty decent brew
Abbaye De Floreffe Triple from Brasserie Lefèbvre SA
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
207 ratings
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