33 cl bottle. Finest Belgian Beers. Lot L2006 02369 26/10/2022 Turbid brown, murky Duddel like pour, with a decent but poorly maintained head. Nose offers a few, light fruit, and bitter notes. Something similar breaks across the plate early. This smooths out over the course of the bottle, and really becomes quite sweet. If one concentrates it is possible to pick out a touch of nutmeg, and little prickly carbonation, and some deeper plum like fruit, but this is one of the those odd times when...

Notes added 02/10/22. 13 years since I last took notes on this beer. 33 cl bottle, pictured. Quite a carbonated initial pour with some real fizziness. Surprising. As I noted in the initial notes from 2009, the beer is quite light, especially considering the 9.5%. Plenty of balanced sweetness and even a touch of banana up front. This lingers and builds down the bottle, a the subtle banana note becomes some thing that I walk away with more than anything else. The “light” nature of a beer in this...

Notes added 09/04/21 New look labels that have been a round for a few years now, pictured here. In its sixteen year evolution since the original review in 2005, it still feels ‘mild’ - I stand by that word. The BSDA style classification looks ‘wrong’ when when considers the color (mid, golden orange), and the lack of punch that the ABV should deliver. It looks like a Tripel, but lacks any white pepper spice, and there are no dark fruits here. Amber also seems wrong. To be honest, this remains...

Notes added: 08/27/21 750 mL bottle with the newer, but paradoxically old school labels (pictured), from Finest Belgian Beers. 13/04/23 as the date, L2150 17.16 as the lot. Having been really disappointed with a couple of recent bottles of newer Des Rocs, and after learning from Bob Sylvester that there had been a changing of the guard over there, I was ready for another let down today. NOT SO! This Triple Impérial is as good as the old days. Perfect appearance, rich, sumptuous dark fruits...

Notes added 08/06/21 33cl bottle, Batch/Lot L2005 03678 03/06/2022 Difficult to square this beer in 2021 when compared to 2005. For a start I've hated the label change for years, but I suppose that's a different story (picture here is that new label, please love the old ones instead!). There's a thinness about the beer that I was not a feature of this previously. Also there's a light acidity here that takes away from the depth of Belgian dark, plum character that I remember from the past....