Ename Tripel

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

Somewhat hazy golden yellow color with perfect white lasting foam. Good carbonated. Drinks down nice bitter, with some fruit taste. Good long lasting bitter aftertaste.

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

This brew pours a vibrant golden orange colour. Maintains a well carbonated body. The image of this brew in the glass was like a snowglobe hourglass visual beer show. Aroma is sweet of tropical fruits- peach, apricot and pineapple. Taste is bubblicious and sweet with noticeable alcohol flavor.

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

Bottled. Golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is alcohol, some caramel malts spices and yeast. Flavour is spices, yeast, some caramelly sweet hints as well as slight notes of alcohol.

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

A 1/4 inch of white suds melts quickly leaving a small ring of lacing around the chalice. The actual liquid is clear and golden, looking like a standard American piss water beer. This left me with the impression that it had been filtered during the brewing process. Perfumy, floral odors waft to the nose. Earthy tastes of citrus, hops and spice, along with some hop bitterness are most prevalent. A carbonated yeast like quality was also detectable. An alcoholic finish polishes off this Abbey Tripel. It was kind of heavy, but drinkable none-the-less.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Well, if nothing else, this beer wins the gold medal for "Most Boring Beer Label" competition. ;^)

But seriously, I'm not so sure about this one. A best before(?) date of 13/02/2008 means this is pretty darn fresh (brewed in February of this year, I suspect), but there are some odd things going on in the background that I'm not really fully understanding.

Poured with a huge mounding layer of foam, that threatened to overfill my Piraat glass. Had to scrap off the excess foam from the top, just to keep it from making a mess on my computer desk...! *But* this is a Tripel, and it's perfectly par for the course for a beer of this ilk to have huge amounts of foam. Good retention, and tons of lacing, too.

Not nearly as agressive in the nose as it is in appearence. Rather muted sugary/sweetness in the aroma -- not much else.

The flavor profile picks up the storyline, but not without some rumblin' and fumblin', me'thinks. The initial sweet/malty sugar profile seems to flow out like the tide, with a weird dry dustiness taking it's place. The sweetness makes a comeback in the game as this beer warms up some, but it's a lingering sweetness that is not wholly welcome the second time around, since the mouthfeel takes a hit in the final analysis.

Finishes decent enough, I suppose, but I do confess to having been a bit bored with this beer by the bottom third of my glass. Not really dry enough for this to be a nice drinker -- too much sweetness lingering, and out-lasting it's welcome.

Not terrible, but several weird and distracting quirks that will keep me from going out of my way for this. Another oddity from Brouwerij Roman...

Music: Arsis' "A Celebration Of Guilt"
//TB

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

Bottle, at Den Tatoverede Enke, Copenhagen. Honey coloured. Honey and spices in the aroma, quite nice. Flavour is rather sweet, some mild spices, but lacks "bite". Alcohol is evident.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

golden-orange colour, big creamy head, spicy, yeasty with deep honey notes, very smooth, the initial sweetness is followed by a bitter spicy and honeyish aftertaste

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Nice pale gold colour with huge white head. Straw, barnyardy, yeast, citrus and a little sulphur in the nose. Taste is dry, spicey, citrus, banana and medium sweet. Medium bodied, quite highly carbonated, but smooth mouthfeel. A very good tripel.