I've looked at my fair share of Belgian style ales on the blog but today's beer is my first true Belgian beer. A bit odd that it's taken this long. My fascination with this beer starts with that tall, stemmed, fleur de lis festooned glass sitting there on the right. I was at Dilly Cafe in Mariemont about a year ago (One of the great beer bars. You should really check it out if you have the chance) and they were pouring Tripel Karmeliet, and while a Belgian tripel isn't always wont to catch my eye, that glass sure was. A couple of months later I found A Tripel Karmeliet gift set at the party source that included three bottles of the beer and, you guessed it, that beautiful glass. That brings us to today, where if I'm being honest with all of you, I bought this bottle just so I could use the glass for a blog photo. Time to see if the beer inside is as pretty as the glass. To the beer!
