Brouwerij Slaapmutske "Triple Nightcap" Triple, Beligum 750ml

Slaapmutske literally means ‘Sleeping Cap,’ (and, as an extension, 'nightcap') in Flemish. The name came about a few years ago when brewer Dany de Smet and his lovely wife, Marleen, were trying to soothe their crying baby, Jonas. When all else failed, Dany hit on the idea of giving the lad a short lick of a finger dipped into a glass of one of Dany's beers. And with that, young Jonas was out like a light. Marleen declared the beer to be a real 'slaapmutske,' and thus, a brewery was born. Intended to re-create the benchmark Belgian tripel, but with an extra flourish of finishing hops to give the beer an appealing fresh, flowery note, for this beer Dany uses whole hops, which give the beer an advantage over the prototype, which is made using only hop extract now. The result is a strong, pale beer with a considerable alcoholic kick and a nice bitter aftertaste of hops, overlaid with entrancing aromas that only come from fresh hops added at the very end of the boil. This is clearly an improvement on the classic, we think. 8.1% abv