Sporting a relatively consistent (with some outliers) can design and, more importantly, pretty consistently good track record, I welcome a tripel from these guys. I love me a tripel, and I suspect they made this just for me. Well, maybe not just for me, but I can imagine a day when this blog is so influential that it might just come to that.
The bronze-gold beer sports a decent head of white bubbles that boils down to a patchy and incomplete layer on top. And this time, the patches are almost entirely round. The aroma is delicious Belgian yeast above a thin wheat, and the yeast is winning everything. It's also winning... my heart.First sip is dry, sweet, yeasty, and caramel. I expected some of the wheat grains I smelled, but the sip is so much of the yeast (which I like, but this may be a lot) that everything else is relegated to background noise. Is it good? Well, it's not bad, but I'm not getting out of its own way to be great.
Tip-in is light carbonation tingle with that Belgian yeast and a caramel malt. The middle spreads into wheat graininess rising to meet the yeast as spice integrates into all of it. The finish is a wine-like smoothness with alcohol hitting the beer hard and sending it into the bleachers.
Bottom Line: Even an okay Belgian ale is pretty darn good.
3.0/5