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(HUYGHE) DUINEN TRIPEL ABBEY ALE

Unique white bottle packaging can’t make up for overbearingly unrealized peculiarities. Up-front honeyed citrus sweetness and phenol clove spicing mired by murky malt-hop manipulation to sullied barleywine finish. Weird medicinal aftertaste ensues. Dried fig-peach-cherry-apple tartness coarsens yeast-soured brettanomyces pucker. Casual novice drinkers need not apply.

RIVER HORSE TRIPEL HORSE

Abstruse puffy-headed gold-hazed Belgian-styled medium body belies sweet-tart summer ale fruiting with wintry pine hop peppering. Initial dry white grape souring supplements banana breaded lemon pie illusions. Ensued candi-sugared vanilla midst preps tropical pineapple-papaya-peach latency and gaunt apricot-orange misting. On tap, white-peppered citric fruiting secured top spot above funky Belgian candied yeast and creamy caramelized crystal malting.

WEYERBACHER PROPHESY

Abstruse oak-aged Belgian-styled tripel opens like a vinous Chardonnay, sprinkling green-skinned white-wined esters atop white-peppered bittering and tart apple sourness. Cotton-candied cherry-melon-banana flange picks up raw-honeyed whiskey-soured prominence. At finish, zesty lemon pucker, vanilla puree tease, and wispy bourbon nip fight for space.