Triple XXX
Bierbrouwerij Vermeersen

Golden, slightly hazy colour. High white head, made up of fine bubbles, persistent. Leaves a lot of foamy islands on the glass.Medium intensity aroma. There are notes of malt, earthiness, cellar, spices (pepper, coriander), herbs and a hint of fruit.The flavour is definitely dry. The hop bitterness seems to be high and long, which makes this Tripel very drinkable.
The alcohol is hidden. High carbonation gives the beer fullness. However, the body is only medium. The texture is smooth and round. The aftertaste is long, dry and herbal.

I think the 2024-2025 bane of this beer is Tripel XXX
Maybe they changed a bit in the mean time. Coriander and curacoa (bitter oranges) added,
Looks: pours really great, Beautiful dense foam, Very alive, lot of microbubbles, swirling yeast around, beautiful lacing, Colour, fat yellow with hints orange, hazey.
Smell: ripe fruit, heavy flowers, pleasant sweetness
Taste: not as sweet and parfumed as it smells, Starts with an elegant white belgian beer taste, but the bitterness takes over in the aftertaste. Very fresh, but a bit a rough edge to it.
mouthfeel: full, creamy, pleasant, small sips, explode on your tongue.

Very interesting beer. Would love to get hints on good food pairing.

Tasted at the Quinn's, Camden Town, N. London, alongside De Proef's "De Lepelaer Beemster Blond". Bottle-conditioned, 300ml brown bottle presentation, with an old-style-ish beer label. BB 01/2008, served lightly-chilled in a tulip-shaped sniffer (a Lipton Ice Tea glass, to be exact~~).

A: pours a hazy, very dark orangey golden hue, coming with a beautifully-formed tight, frothy, and THICK white head sustaining almost forever~~ Lively carbonation underneath.
S: a sour-sweet grainy note of Chinese pearl-barley porridge comes hand in hand with a Yakult or Yogurt like yeasty sour-sweetness... on top of perfumy fruits (un-ripe pineapples+apricots), a profound sugary maltiness like freshly squeezed sugar-cane juice, and touches of fig-jam in the back. Quite sweet overall, but shows an interesting profile.
T: slightly warm-ish (due to alc.-impact) upfront, tasting lots of pilsner-malt like grainy maltiness backed by grassy hoppy flavour; proceeding towards more settled malty undertone with a honeyish edge and caramely malty taste (Munich malts?), and backed by a stream of sour-sweet fruity (like dried figs) elements of esters behind; the aftertaste takes over quietly and slowly, soothing, herbal dry and slightly hoppy (in mouthfeel) with a residual bitter-sweet sugary flavour in the end, marking a welcomed contrast to the rather rich and malty fore-taste.
M&D: very softly-carbonated and smooth on the texture, the beer is just medium-bodied with a nice, evolving flavour profile and not too rich or alcoholic at all. A quite delicious, malty Triple. Worth a try.

Tried at 't Arendsnest in west amsterdam.

The pour is quite transparent as compared to your average dense tripel, with a thick yeasty white head and a rather golden orange translucid body, with a bit of carbonation.

The smell was not brilliant but it was good, sort of reminding me of the smell Westmalle tripel would generally have....fruity yet bitter and yeasty, a scent of the alcohol that stays there....well, you know.

The taste was good. it seemed like a balanced version between a Leffe Tripel and a Karmeliet- the latter being a sweeter one, thus Java being a bit of a sweet-sour combination with a strong fruity mouthfeel well worth a taste, in my opinion.

A third one of the brewery and for the first time a pale one... Nice head, yeasty and wheat but sour nose and a sweet and spicy taste followed by some bitterness. Less then a triple should have but with the sweetness and bodyless taste at least in balance. Nothing to make any advertising for but in my opinio the best of three is sampled.