Belgium beers are known for their strong and unique flavors, encompassing farmhouse ales, saisons, and tripels. Wait -- what exactly is a tripel? Is it three times the amount of flavor and alcohol ...

if you can get beers from other places, if the expectation was up to reality,” says Noel, whose Belgian tripel was one of the top-rated beers of the style in the country last year.

The beers are generally bottled and follow a basic system of classification: they are labelled either enkel (“single”), dubbel (“double”), tripel (“triple”) or quadrupel (“quadruple ...