Petrus Gouden Tripel
De Brabandere

Bottled and purchased from the Epicurean in West Didsbury
Pours a clear golden body with good white head
Aroma is golden syrup and candied peel
Flavour is dry bark, petuli and orange oil

Bottle from John’s. Pours fizzy like a can of pop. Fairly dark. Smells like…mead? Odd. Unfortunately not my favorite tripel by any stretch. Skunked?

Shared 330 ml bottle as Petrus Gouden Tripel, at local tasting. Golden colour, white head. Pleasant aroma of spicy Belgian ale yeast, hints of kandij sugar and hops. Fizzy mouthfeel. Medium dry flavour, some spicy notes, decent hops, but not particularly complex.

L- Pale amber, clear, poured into a chalice glass and it's formed a 7Cm high pillowy head. ps a layer of sediment is stuck fast to the bottom of the bottle, I'm surprised despite my care zero came through in the pour, ie handle like a typical bottle-conditioned beer.
S- Hard to smell it through the present 5Cm foam cap.
T- Bright hops and some spice on the front, meaty and exotic/spicy in the middle, and punchy (ABV%) rich and rewarding into the finish.
F- Rich, but pungent ABV% and spice/bitter notes bring a great balance. Goes down beautifully.
O- This is a dangerously pleasant beer. It might be too easy to wish to try and session it. This would be an excellent 'dessert beer' in place of a 'dessert wine', to go with pudding/dessert especially in colder winter months. Zero out of place here to note, I'd happily enjoy and buy this one again.
330ml bottle. Different lable than pictured^ . Now mostly blue lables, no cartoon/s, more trad looking.
Bought from BeersOfEurope (UK). BB: 16/04/2022.

From Lidl. 75 cl. In Grimbergen cup. Playing Avadon 3. Fine tripel, smooth feel and with maybe with the charasteristc notes of the style a bit too soft, but drinks easily and doesnt affect head

 

 

 

 

 

this one is 8%

Pours hazy golden, head that lasts, lots of carb.

sweet, standard belgiany yeast-peppery nose. Uninspiring.


Carbonic dryness hits you in taste, it's quite novel to get that first. oily, bitterness on the end. Not particularly moreish. little malt or hop flavours.

Fairly light in body, high carb.

there are many better tripels out there.

Once again I'm left a bit confused, why have so much alcohol in a beer that has so little going on in aroma and flavour. It's clearly technically well brewed, the head lasts like it would into next week but this gives me no reason to want to drink it other than get smashed on it. And if I'm wanting that, then some vodka+coke would be cheaper, quicker and have more flavour.

 

 

 

Delayed gusher. Seems like the kind of thing the drunk monk-ish figure on the label might pull, while he stands there looking like a dummy who doesn't understand metaphor, holding both a chalice of tripel AND a literal key (to heaven, one supposes).

Hazy (sediment) dull orange with one finger of fizzy white foam. A few rings of lace stick. Smell: bready and sweet with pear and white peach and notes of pepper and butterscotch. Taste: cooked red apple, caramelized pear upfront; grainy middle with peach skin gets overrun by spiciness on top a plummy backdrop; finishing peppery with the paradoxical sticky-dry finish. Pretty solid tripel, nothing more.

 

 

 

Pale gold with a light haze and effervescent bubbles accompanying. There's tons of yeast in this bottle as it gushed a bit when it opened and is pouring a head that's too tall to measure. After a few minutes it subsides for the rest of the sampling.

Lots of old, oaky, hardware store aromas with stale butterscotch, zucchini squash, and ginger. Some old ass aromas also. Just not very pleasant.

Flavor is really old butterscotch disc with some stale belgian spices, caramel, and stale malt. All of this staleness is telling me that perhaps this is a really old bottle.

Light bodied, into medium bodied, and nicely carbonated.

I hate to rate this so low as I may have gotten an ancient bottle. But this was literally a drain pour from the get. Just going to nonchalantly dump this while looking the other direction.