Yes, trippel is actually what I'm thinking.
There are most certainly bitter Belgium beers. Not Belgium style beers, but they make like 400 different beers over there. I must've tried about 25 in several days, not full pints, mind you. I had an 16.5% abv beer, it was nasty. Then I had a 14% abv that was truly fantastic. They say it's fermented three times, with the third happening in your brain. I would try Chimay if I ever strike it rich in science, like you, sir.
I wish I had the names of all the beers I tried in Belgium.
Perhaps my diction was off saying fermented three times as it was explained to me by a Belgian whose third language was english. though, I assumed beer language was universal. I meant to say the high ABV beers. Rogue put out a line, Dead Guy was at 8%, about what a trippel style beer is.
Belgian whites are about the most divine thing you can imagine with their french fries. When they told me that for lunch they'd get two pints and french fries i was amazed at how skinny they were. Thick cuts too. I'm hungry.