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Tripel Karmeliet

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Tripel Karmeliet

Brouwerij Bosteels, Buggenhout

Style
Tripel
Alcohol
8.4%
Price
129 kr / 0.3 l

Three-grain tripel from a 1679 recipe, vanilla, citrus and elegance.

Taste profile

Legend has it

Bosteels says Tripel Karmeliet is brewed to a recipe from the Carmelite monastery in Dendermonde, dated 1679. As the story goes, Antoine Bosteels came across it by chance in a book about the region's breweries. Anyone who tracks down the manuscript in the Carmelite archive in Ghent finds an instruction to brew sixteen barrels of good beer, written some time between 1679 and 1689. The beer itself arrived in 1996, more than three hundred years later.

Beer stories travel from brewery to bar to guest, and rarely shrink on the way.

Interesting facts

Three grains
Wheat, oats and barley. The hops, Styrian, are used sparingly.
Awards
Gold in 1998 and silver in 2002 for Belgian-style tripel at the World Beer Cup, and Best Pale Ale at the World Beer Awards in 2008.
The brewery
Bosteels in Buggenhout was founded in 1791 and also makes Kwak, which we pour too.
Especially good with

Mussels in cream & lobster stock, salmon.

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Frequently asked questions

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Can I taste several beers at once?

Yes, with the beer box you pick six beers from our 24 taps, served in smaller tasting glasses. The staff are happy to help you put your flight together.

Do you serve every beer in its proper glass?

Yes, just like in Belgium. Each brewery designs glassware to lift precisely their beer, and almost every beer here is served in its proper glass.

Does the beer selection change, or is it always the same?

Both: taps 1-16 are our permanent draughts, always on, while taps 17-24 are rotating guest taps, each beer stays on until the keg runs dry, then a new one takes its place. New bottles also arrive in the bottle cellar all the time. See what's pouring right now →