{"id":1355,"date":"2009-02-15T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:15:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:15:56","slug":"brugge-tripel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2009\/02\/15\/brugge-tripel\/","title":{"rendered":"Brugge Tripel"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Brugge<\/a>
Brugge Tripel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’d wandered into work on a day off mostly taken up by mooching around town running various errands. Just as I plonked myself in my usual spot at the bar, Scotty opened one of these by mistake, the customer apparently actually wanting its ‘Blonde’ sibling but not managing to properly articulate their decision — so I had this as a freebie to try, in the spirit of not letting something pointlessly go to waste.<\/p>\n

It’s a Belgian strong golden ale, but not one I can really recommend. For the price tag, it just seemed a bit… naff — so I’m extra-glad the price tag didn’t apply, in my case. Have a Tuatara Ardennes<\/a>, or a Moa St. Joseph if you’d like something local and similar, or hell, just have a Duvel<\/a> if you’d like the real deal. It’s just better, somehow. The Brugge Tripel just seems a bit, thin — like they’ve candy-sugared it up too much. It does — at 8.2% — pack a sly boozy punch, though, I can tell you that.<\/p>\n

Afterthoughts, February 2011:<\/strong> Just about the only thing I can give this beer credit for, now, is inspiring me to rewatch In Bruges<\/em><\/a>. Pretty limp praise-by-assocation is the best I can manage; this beer was a real let-down from what I was hoping for, and against what I’ve liked in other examples of its style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d wandered into work on a day off mostly taken up by mooching around town running various errands. Just as I plonked myself in my usual spot at the bar, Scotty opened one of these by mistake, the customer apparently actually wanting its ‘Blonde’ sibling but not managing to properly articulate their decision — so … Continue reading Brugge Tripel<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,16,29],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-belgian","tag-belgium","tag-facebookers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":285,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2007\/09\/12\/het-kapittel-watou-abt-tripel\/","url_meta":{"origin":1355,"position":0},"title":"Het Kapittel Watou Abt \/ Tripel","author":"Phil","date":"September 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Verbatim: Kapittel Watou Tripel. 330ml, $6 or so, 10%, 12\/9\/07. 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