Tripel Karmeliet

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Price: £4.60

Description Delicious fruity abbey beer with lovely glass, 8%abv. This style of beer was brewed by an abbey at Dendermonde in 1679 by monks of the Carmelite order. The beer is a strong blond ale as one expects on recognising its tripel name. It is different to others due to its six grain recipe. Karmeliet contains Oats, Barley and Wheat in malted and unmalted form, making a complex and heavier beer. The Bosteel's brewery, famous for Kwak have added a regal glass to serve their product in. The glass is coated in frosted glass fleur de lees. DueS, Kwak and Tripel Karmelit, three completely different styles of beer, all different ingredients, all different fermentations and all from Bosteels Brewery.  Located in the small village of Buggenhout, the Bosteels family has run the brewery for over 200 years, seven generations.  With this history, styles are created.  Look at DueS, a true champagne style beer.  Brewed in Belgium with barley were it is fermented the first time. Then the brew travels to France where it is bottled into champagne style bottles and riddled for up to a year in the classic champenoise technique.  After the daily quarter turn, the neck of the bottle were all the yeast has been turned to, is frozen and dégorgement of the yeast bung  is removed, followed by a cork and cage.  Then it makes its voyage back to Belgium to be sold and distributed.  By know means the easiest of beers to be made. Nose is sherbety and spicy, with hints of vanilla, cloves, cinnamon and coriander, plus a bubblegum note often associated with wheat beer, and even a touch of soap. In the mouth it is quite sweet, with honey flavours tempered by sour-ish citrus-fruit notes - lemon and lime, with a touch of pineapple. It is very tripel-like in some ways, but there are a few anomalies - its sweetness, to begin with. Also, there are red berry flavours, which you wouldn't normally expect to find in a tripel. Finish is citrusy, sweet and cloying. While a pleasant enough beer, it is not a great example of a tripel, mainly due to its sweetness. Definitely worth a shot, though. Also, for you homebrewers out there, we understand that the conditioning yeast is pretty good for brewing with. 33cl bottle. Bosteels Brewery