Adelardus Tripel
Brouwerij Kerkom

 

L- Orange brown, moderately cloudy, pours with thin white head that dissipates quite soon to surface lacing.
S- Mild, but some beery grains for me, plus a hint of the 9%ABV.
T- Boof! I take a sip and rattle it around my mouth for a couple of seconds - for max impact - before opening my mouth, lip-smacking and swallowing. The 'Boof!' was the alcohol tang, as clear as a bell to me! That's followed by a solid Tripel-style flavour palate with perhaps a fraction greater sweetness than I'm used to.
F- It's rich and yet the Taste is piquant/bright enough that balance is reached.
O- Surprisingly low Smell for a beer as impactful as this, for both me and my wife, but that might just be down to peak pollen season nasal congestion. To me this is a slow-sipping winter warmer style of beer and very drinkable. It seems a touch to the sweeter side for a Tripel, but I'm still enjoying it.
330ml bottle BB: 06/2021. Bought from BelgiumInABox Antwerp/BE for home delivery to me in London/UK.

ps. The brewery website says this is a gruit beer [herb beer, in English] 'What makes Adelardus Tripel so special, is the use of so-called ‘gruut’. This is a mixture of about 10 different indigenous herbs.' Yet I didn't register that at all, and gruits are usually pretty simple to spot.

Pours a deep orange color that leaves a small top of white head that dissolves in a very rapid pace and leaves no lacings.The aroma is of banana,plums,apples,pears,honey,malts,caramel,spices and flowers. The taste is sweet with overripe fruits at the start and then gets more spicy in the flavour with some sour and malt notes in the back as well. The finish has a slight bitterness with herbs and spices. The aftertaste has a decent lenght. Mouthfeel is smooth and creamy with the alcohol fairly good masked.
All in all this was a quite good triple, and has all the characteristics. Would drink this again.

Ok
Pours a lovely hazy blonde, topped with not much in the way of a head, which is a minor negative.

Aroma is sublime, wonderful array of over ripened fruit, namely banana and plumb, mixed with a sour mash.

Taste follows suit, lovely first hit of slight sour, but then backed up with a rich mixture of that ripened fruit, dates, figs, plumbs and bananas.

Feel is spot on too, no drama. No unwanted fizz, not too heavy or too wishy washy, just right.

Overall this beer will differ from bottle to bottle I guess, seems like the conditioning is everything... I served very slightly chilled 5-6 degrees into a chaliced glass, also the batch was fairly new with 2 years of its shelf life left.

A belter....well mine was, and I hope yours will be.

330 ml bottle into chalice, no bottle dating. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy golden amber/light orange color with a 1 finger dense off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of lemon, orange, peach, apricot, pear, apple, mango, melon, light white pepper, honey, cracker, bread dough, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/earthy/spicy yeast, pale malt, and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big lemon, orange, peach, apricot, pear, apple, mango, melon, light white pepper, honey, cracker, bread dough, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate yeast spiciness, and light herbal/grassy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, orange, peach, apricot, pear, apple, mango, melon, white pepper, honey, cracker, bread dough, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/earthy/spicy yeast, pale malt, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from bitter/spiciness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/creamy, and fairly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol for 9%. Overall this is a very nice Tripel. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/earthy/spicy yeast, pale malt, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV. Really well balanced between yeast and malts, with a nice complex yeast flavor profile. Probably a couple years old judging by the protein haze and slightly darkened malt/appearance; but it held up really well. A very enjoyable offering.

 

A sweet tripel? No thank you.
Tripel must be spicy, not overly sweet.

Poured from a bottle into a tulip glass. Cloudy golden brown with a thick but short loved head and decent lacing. Smell of sweet apple. Sweet fruit taste with some caramel and licorice flavor so. Overall, not bad.

 

 

Stopped into Cafe Frape in Maastricht on 28SEP15 and started off with two 0.33l bottles of this, at €3.75 per. Bottles said best by JUL18 and that "sugar and spices" were added.

It was medium to dark golden, and a bit hazy. Had a wispy, rim-clinging ring of white foam, and very light lacework. Aroma was a bit crackery along with some tropical fruit. Was medium for body, and fairly smooth on the tongue, with just a light prickle to stir things up.

Led off with bready, crackery malt sweetness. Lots of fruity action then came onto the stage: pear, green apple, green grapes - nice! Was a touch peppery in the dry finish. Quite the solid, tasty bier! Prosit!!

4.15/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

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A 330ml bottle with a BB of Dec 2014, so it's a little out of date. Think I must have picked this up on my last trip to Belgium; it's been stored in a cupboard ever since.

A: Poured into a Chimay chalice. Bottle conditioned. A rich golden-amber hue with faint haze and good carbonation. Yields a smallish head of white foam that lasts for a moment or so before collapsing and disappearing.

S: Aroma of fruity yeast esters with hints of banana, mild bubblegum, subtle coriander, spice, a touch of honey, sugar and faint stewed leaves. A twinge of oxidation is apparent. Quite nice.

T: Tastes of fruity yeast esters with a lingering dry finish. Notes of banana, bubblegum, coriander, dry spice, mild honey, earthy yeast, subtle sugar and stewed leaves. Slightly sweet, with a touch of oxidation that adds a sherry-like quality. Little bitterness to speak of; a prolonged yeasty character upon swallowing.

M: Mouthfeel is smooth, tingly and dry with pleasant carbonation and good body. Slightly astringent, accompanied by an aftertaste of fruitiness, yeast esters, earthiness and faint stewed leaves.

O: Pretty good, though the bottle is probably a tad old. Looks alright, while the aroma and flavour are dominated by Belgian yeast notes and subtle spice. Satisfying body. A decent tripel that is worth sampling if you stumble across it.