Clean, polite, moderate-bodied triple with unassumingly lusty 9% alcohol volume and hazy flaxen hue sustains candied Scotch sweetness, fetching barleywine suavity, spiced citrus charm, and medicinal upsurge, receiving herbaceous peppery clove minting to fill out honeyed peach creaminess.
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(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.
DE KONINCK (1833) TRIPEL
ACHEL TRAPPIST TRIPLE
Interesting pale-bodied hybrid unintentionally closer to phenol German weissbier than moderate-bodied Belgian Trappist Ale. Floral yeast nose suits honeyed wheat sweetness. Candied orange-tangerine tang spruces up spicy clove backdrop. Beige sediment dots thick viscosity for impairing relaxant aimed at light-heavyweights and up.
DICK’S BELGIAN TRIPEL ALE
(BOSTEELS) KARMELIET TRIPEL
Rather soft for daintily gold-hazed dessert-like tripel, but its alcohol sneaks up on you. Short-lived white-peppered citric effervescence gives way to protruding candi-sugared yeast sweetness contrasting mildly bitter herbal hop spread to creamy vanilla-spiced finish. Coriander, lemon peel, and banana illusions crystallize alongside light green grape tartness.
ST. BERNARDUS TRIPEL ABBEY ALE
WEYERBACHER PROPHESY
Abstruse oak-aged Belgian-styled tripel opens like a vinous Chardonnay, sprinkling green-skinned white-wined esters atop white-peppered bittering and tart apple sourness. Cotton-candied cherry-melon-banana flange picks up raw-honeyed whiskey-soured prominence. At finish, zesty lemon pucker, vanilla puree tease, and wispy bourbon nip fight for space.
(DE RANKE) GULDENBERG ABBEY TRIPEL
$10 for 1-pint 9-oz. bottle of fluffy ivory-headed alcohol-soaked blonde wrapped in white bag w/ blue stripes. Pour slowly thick resinous pale yellow fluid or explosive carbonation will overwhelm immediate lemon-peeled apple blast to sour grape finish. Peppery floral-hopped mandarin orange sidles vinous white grape tannins and red grapefruit rind subtlety. On tap at Growler & Gill, sweet honeyed malts and herbal citric spicing picked up pleasing cellar-like fungi yeast mossing.



