Consistent fluffy-headed pale ale maintains up-front champagne essence, aromatic yeast sweetness, and lively hop penetration – softening centralized creamy froth with mineral-watered crisping.
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(DE DOLLE) MAD BITCH DULLE TEVE ALE
Pour slowly billowy white-headed amber-hazed Belgian froth or risk overt foaming. Durable intangibles such as burnt sugar malts, sweet herbaceous yeast, and floral-spiced hops usurp bitterly astringent finish as attractive thickets of Brussels lace coat the glass. Strong, elegant, and complex, but latent buttery creaminess precludes subdued fruited tartness.
(HUYGHE) DUINEN TRIPEL ABBEY ALE
Unique white bottle packaging can’t make up for overbearingly unrealized peculiarities. Up-front honeyed citrus sweetness and phenol clove spicing mired by murky malt-hop manipulation to sullied barleywine finish. Weird medicinal aftertaste ensues. Dried fig-peach-cherry-apple tartness coarsens yeast-soured brettanomyces pucker. Casual novice drinkers need not apply.
(RIDGEWAY) SERIOUSLY BAD ELF ALE
WESTMALLE TRAPPIST TRIPLE BIER
ST. FEUILLIEN TRIPEL
ABBAYE DU VAL-DIEU TRIPLE
(DE PROEF) SLAAPMUTSKE TRIPLE NIGHTCAP ALE
Loads of sugary yeast sediment sinks into viscous amber setting of intoxicating nickel-hued full body. Initial coriander-spiced apple sequence settles to honeyed almond-butterscotch midst before peppery hops awaken tart lemon rind wisp descending upon mildewed cellar-like finish. Musty floral herbs conceal banana, golden raisin, and green grape nuances.
(HUYGHE) MATEEN TRIPLE ALE
RIVER HORSE TRIPEL HORSE
Abstruse puffy-headed gold-hazed Belgian-styled medium body belies sweet-tart summer ale fruiting with wintry pine hop peppering. Initial dry white grape souring supplements banana breaded lemon pie illusions. Ensued candi-sugared vanilla midst preps tropical pineapple-papaya-peach latency and gaunt apricot-orange misting. On tap, white-peppered citric fruiting secured top spot above funky Belgian candied yeast and creamy caramelized crystal malting.
WEYERBACHER BELGIAN STYLE TRIPPEL
Precursor to Weyerbacher’s Merry Monks Ale. Ripe cherry-grape tang attracts nifty barleywine surge and a dash of herbal mint or clove spicing to creamy caramel center. Candi-sugared sweet ‘n sour honey malting enhances tertiary raisin-plum tartness, providing further full-bodied luster. An undeniably wonderful Belgian knockoff.