La Manufacture Urbaine La Mine

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La Manufacture Urbaine in Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪

Belgian Style - Tripel Regular
Score
6.52
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 38 Ticks: 1
Triple Blonde
Bière triple blonde non filtrée, refermentée en bouteille, de forte densité mais chaleureuse et aromatique.
 

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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tripel created for the Bois du Cazier site, an open air museum on a former coal mine and dedicated to a mining disaster that took place there in the fifties and claimed more than two hundred lives; possibly an alias or near-alias of Triple L. From a 75 cl bottle bought at the Bois du Cazier site. Thick, egg-white, fluffy and foamy, cobweb-lacing, stable head on an initially clear, warm orangey ‘old golden’ beer with lots of visible sparkling, shifting to a misty ‘dirty’-orangey peach and eventually a muddy ochre as more of the bottle is emptied into the glasses. Aroma of ‘oude jenever’, old bread crust, dried apple peel, petrichor, dried apricot, moist cellar, burnt rubber (DMTS?) and other sulfuric aspects (freshly lit matches), dried wormwood, damp hay, wet towel and even some band aid. Dryish-fruity onset, dried apricot and apple peel, some tamarillo, fizzy and stingy carbonation; smooth, lean body. Bread-crusty, rusk-like maltiness, slightly toasty-bitterish at a certain point, under this retronasally returning sulfuric aspect (burnt rubber) paired with phenolic ‘band aid’ and damp kitchen towel, in an altogether musty finish; lots of earthy, leafy hop bitterness underneath, long-lasting and paired with warming, very ‘jenever’-like alcohol. Earthy, yeasty and phenolic ‘tripel’ of sorts, dry and bitter as typifies Wallonia when it brews locally (though I may be guilty of overgeneralization now), but unfortunately not in good condition, with lots of odd and unpleasant ‘off’ effects, I suspect resulting from brewing errors combined with bad storage conditions.

Tried on 24 May 2022 at 09:18