A triple from Kasteel
This beer starts with a citrus sour aroma like a lemon. The beer has a very thick head of foam and tons of bubbles pouring up from the glass. The color is straw and clouded by all the bubbles from inside the glass.
The taste starts sour, but mellows quickly. The beer has some Belgian clove and some candy flavors, but they are muted. There is also an alcohol warming to the taste of this beer. The mouthfeel is light. The beer finished rather mellow for having such hard tastes of sour and alcohol.
I don't care much for the sour taste to the beer. After a few sips the sour taste becomes a little less noticeable and the beer is more drinkable. This bottle of beer could be infected, it would explain the sour flavor and the high carbonation. This could also just be a sour beer.
3 comments:
Hello there fellow beer lover! I'm having one myself right now and I agree with your review on most counts. I don't think you got a bad bottle, although carbonation was very low on mine, and the head was very thin from the start. Reading other reviews, others have found that too. The Belgian yeasty sourness is there, but there is sweetness too. It is a complex and fruity combination, with some alcohol and a definite Belgian taste to it. Nice beer though. Thanks for your review.
Barbeerian - Santa Barbara, Calif.
Hi,
I am enjoying a Kasteel now, too. It really is one of my favourite beers. Mine is on the low carbonation side as well. It's nothing like a Duvel, for example, which gives a very large head. Partly, the Kasteel glass can't handle a large head; it's really more like a Trappist glass than a tulip.
Anyway, I love this beer, it really tingles on the tongue!
Just found your blog. I love the idea and I'm going to read lots more entries. Maybe one day I'll endeavour on the same odyssey.
I am also enjoying a Kasteel Triple and reading your blog!
Mine poured with a really nice and fluffy head. It was plenty carbonated. I tuned into your blog to help me find the words for the flavors in this beer.
I think there is a lemony, even lemon skin flavor to this beer. I think it's a combination of the alcohol, which is obvious and not disguised as in the smooth Triple Karmeliet. I like it. Kind of a strong Belgian yeast flavor. A definite hot alcohol flavor, and i would also say it could be a lemon peel kind of flavor.
When it warms up there is a hint of wet dog. Sounds terrible but I really like this triple. It tastes more like I am drinking a cocktail than a beer. Beware!
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