Tripel Karmeliet is a brand of beer brewed by Brewery Brosteels in Belgium. Originating from the Carmelite monastery in Dendermonde, the beer is made with brewing three kinds of grain: wheat, oats and barley. Therefore its name originated from its recipe and in-bottle refermentation.
Look: Color is light golden brown with moderate head. Head stays for a while but eventually subsided after a few minutes. It has small, bubbly, tightly-compacted and cloudy-looking head. The beer pours smoothly has a clear flow but also some hazy qualities.
Smell: It has a nice dominating, fruity smell but has a mixture of some spice, vanilla and the smell of alcohol although just a faint smell, you can tell there is alcohol. I cannot tell whether the fruity smell is of orange or some berry but it has a faint mix of both making the drink quite exciting to taste.
Look: Color is light golden brown with moderate head. Head stays for a while but eventually subsided after a few minutes. It has small, bubbly, tightly-compacted and cloudy-looking head. The beer pours smoothly has a clear flow but also some hazy qualities.
Smell: It has a nice dominating, fruity smell but has a mixture of some spice, vanilla and the smell of alcohol although just a faint smell, you can tell there is alcohol. I cannot tell whether the fruity smell is of orange or some berry but it has a faint mix of both making the drink quite exciting to taste.
Taste: Initially, the taste is similar to that of our local beers but when you linger on it, the moment it touches the mouth you get the hint of the fruity smell translating to a slightly-fruity taste but with a hint of alcohol. It finishes with a flat taste- quite in the middle of a dry finish and not-so dry one. Also afterwards, that’s when you really taste the malt and the alcohol.
Overall, Tripel Karmeliet has a bittersweet taste, and I must say perfect for beer-drinking ladies who wants a kick of beer with a taste of their ladies’ cocktail drinks. Like I said, I would recommend the Tripel Karmeliet for ladies and gentlemen who’d like to experience the mixture of cocktails, coz of its fruity component, and beer brought about by its bitter aftertaste. I would also recommend that one bottle is not enough and the drinker should try out a couple to be able to fully grasp the beer’s kick because one bottle wouldn’t do it.
I find it amusing that a monastery started to brew this beer. Actually, it's funny to think about ANY monastery brewing ANY beer! When people think of monastery, they quickly equate it to meditating on God's word and perhaps prayer, not fermenting and mixing drinks. Actually, the more I think about it, the more the irony comes out. Assuming that this wasn't made recently, like this was made a long time ago, like say, the middle ages when monasteries were mushrooming from the ground, I wonder why they started to make this beer? Did they run out of water to drink? Weren't they too busy doing handmade books? And another peculiar aspect, aren't the Carmelites a group of nuns? It was okay for a bunch of girls to make beer? Hmm, the plot thickens.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the review stirs interest. I never knew beer could be made from 3 types of grain! Good job!