Bavik Pilaarbijter Blonde

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Clear yellow with small White foam film. Aroma and taste are decent ale. However nothing special in my opinion, may be better next time. (Velp 201402)

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

2 * 330 ml capped bottles, as a 8.5 % ABV. Poured in the original Pilaarbijter stemmed tulip glass a clear and golden-orange coloured Abbey Tripel wit a two fingers light beige and soapy foamy head that had a very long retention and tons of micro bubbles. Sustained carbonation. Some lacing. The aroma is yeast, spicy, orange peels, sweety malts, earthy tones and a touch of sourness. The flavour is yeasty, sweety malts, candy sugar and spicy, orange peels. The mouthfeel is crispy, fulled, sticky and overall, too, sweety. This full bodied A T has a dry sweety-sticky malty finish. If the high alcoholic level, 8.5% ABV, is well hidden, the powerful sweety feeling leads to a no funny brew. Overall I don't recognize " the " classical Belgian Abbey Tripel.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

C: light amber, hazed, off-white head
A: yeast, spices, citrus, grains
P: medium
F: alcohol is evident, grains
O: A pretty awful beer, one of the worst tripels I’ve tried

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Draft, Flying Saucer, Houston .. . poured a medium gold, light sticky foam .. . come on lads! .. . honey, yeast, spicy toffee, and tart honey .. . not a bad beer, but nothing great either, probably the weakest of the night .. . . I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

330 ml bottle, thanks to Beer2000. ABV is 7.5%. BB 07/12/09. The glass is first filled by a huge foamy white head, then a cloudy brownish golden beer slowly emerges. Strong sweetish aroma of Belgian ale yeast, over-ripe and rotting berries, artificial candy and fermenting fruits, verging on "sickly". The flavour is sweet (maybe too sweet), yeasty and spicy, some notes of decaying fruits again. A moderate spicy bitterness in the finish.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Bottled. Nice yellowish golden colour with big fluffy white mediumsized head. Aroma is fruits, some sourness, earthyness and parfume. Also some mild toffee lurking in the background. Flavour is toffeeish, fruity, nectary and some mild spicyness. Finish turns a bit sour and more spicy, but still is wellbalanced. Aftertaste is fruity nectar along with some spices and yeasty notes. biting carbonation.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

i dont know what a hypocrite has to do with biting pillars but ill agree, this is moreso just belgian ale than tripel.....pours gold with a stiff white head. Aroma like green tea and grassy meadows. A frothy mouthfeel....Fruity hayish tones, not as sweet as the aroma might suggest. Some interesting yeasty notes, a hint spicy, a subtle earthiness...Its on the light side in the finish, and i wish there were more flavor

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Blond colour with fizzy white head. yeasty and sweet aroma of oranges, apple-peels and anise. Yeasty and quite thin flavour of oranges, honey and pear. Short papery finish.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottle. Dark brown colour with a huge light brown , rocky head. Aroma is sweet and sour with roasted malts. Taste has brown sugar, caramel, toasted malts, dark fruits. Quite light, medium carbonation. Tasty stuff. No way this is a triple; it's a Belgian Ale.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

One of two 33cL Pilaarbijter beers that I picked up a few days ago, from the recently expanded selection at Keg&Bottle. I was a bit nervous about sampling this particular beer (after reading the rather indifferent reviews). And then I noticed that both of the beers that I purchased said they were "Tripels". After some research, turns out that this is more of quasi-Belgian Strong Pale Ale/Abbey Tripel, and the other 7%ABV "Tripel" is actually a mislabled Flemish Bruin. But first things first -- onto the beer in-hand.

I for one didn't have nearly the excessively carbonation issues that other folks seem to have noticed with this beer. Lively in the foam production and head retention, but not distracting or gushing....

A bit nuetral in the aroma, with only basic earthy-spicy notes showing up in the nose.

Where this beer picks up speed though, is where it most counts IMO. That is to say, the actual flavor profile is rather appealing, IMO. Like the aroma profile, this seems to split itself length-wise, with an appealing farmhouse "earthiness" co-mingling with the more traditional spicy Abbey Ale-like textures.

Nice "full but not heavy" mouthfeel here, which tends to help the overall drinkability, IMHO.

A little out-of-step, as far as more mainstream Abbey beers go, but overall, not terrible at all. And at $4.99 a 33cL, a little too pricey for day-today purchasing. But still, interesting enough to be worth investigating once and a while, me'thinks.
//TB