Le Plan Beer Tripel 0.75
Le Plan Beer Tripel 0.75
Belgian Triple 8.4%
A top-fermented beer that is refermented in the bottle. A beautiful bright golden color with a large white head, strong carbonation. The complex sweet malt and yeast give the beer spicy and grassy notes. A full and complex malty beer with fruity esters, spicy (cloves) and a long and warming aftertaste.
Inspired by: Westmalle Tripel, Chimay Tripel, Karmeliet Tripel.
A new wind is blowing through the rich Belgian beer landscape, loosely inspired by the American and international craft beer revolution. The latest crop of Belgian brewers reconciles tradition with experimentation in a varied, seemingly inexhaustible stream of new beers.
Beer was already produced in Belgium in Roman times, as evidenced by the excavation of a brewery and malthouse from the 3rd and 4th centuries AD in Ronchinne. During the early and high Middle Ages, beer was produced with gruit, a mix of herbs and spices first mentioned in 974 when the Bishop of Liège was given the right to sell it in Fosses-la-Ville. From the 14th century onwards, gruit was replaced by hops, following the example of imported beers from Northern Germany. Subsequently, several Belgian cities developed their own types of beer for export to other regions, most notably the wheat beer of Leuven and Hoegaarden, the caves of Lier and the trousseau of Ghent. Monasteries played only a minor role in beer production and brewed mostly for their own consumption and that of their guests.
Monastery brewing would only gain some fame from the end of the 19th century, when the Trappists of Chimay produced a brown beer that was commercially available. In 1885, a change in the law made the brewing of bottom-fermented German beers viable in Belgium, and it was only from then on that brewing on a large industrial scale took off in Belgium. In the 20th century, the number of breweries in Belgium decreased from 3,223 breweries in 1900 to just 106 breweries in 1993. However, a number of traditional beer styles, such as wheat beer, lambic and Flemish old brown, were retained, while new local, top-developed fermented styles, such as spéciale belge, abbey beer and Belgian strong beer or Triple. In 2018, there were approximately 304 breweries active in Belgium, including international companies such as AB InBev, traditional breweries including Trappist monasteries and hundreds of small local family breweries. In 2016, UNESCO included Belgian beer culture on their list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.