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Dark Horse Sapient Trip Ale 3.41 314

Dark Horse Sapient Trip Ale

Percentile
83
overall

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
3143.43/5.03.41/5.08.5%70.8Trappist glass, Tulip
Commercial Description:
Why is the Grim Reaper holding a mailbox? Well, that mailbox is from a dead Dark Horse beer. The Grim Reaper better know as "Death" was quite fond of our classic Sapient Summer Wheat Ale. When we changed it into a Belgian Style Triple, Death thought it would only be appropriate to bring something from that beer into this beer. So he picked the mailbox, and we weren’t about to argue with him. You can say what you want about him, but that Death sure has a big heart. So anyway...we brewed this beer with a Trappist yeast strain so it is very traditional. The flavors are incredibly complex with notes of mild fruit and finishes with a bit of clove. Although this beer is higher in alcohol it is very smooth and finishes dry on the palate.
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 bubslang (438), Kentwood, Michigan, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/514/20
Aug 3, 2004  
Cloudy golden is color with a medium sized white head. Nice yeasty aroma with hints of spice. Taste is very sweet, perhaps a bit too much so with hints of pineapple,banana,and coriander. Still overall a pretty solid beer.


 hopscotch (5681), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/513/20
Dec 27, 2006  
Bottle... Lightly hazy golden ale with a small, creamy, white head. Breadsy, fruity aroma with esters of pear, apple and orange peel and clove phenols. Sweet, fruity flavor that’s light on the spice. Yeasty and lightly bitter. Full-bodied with a milky mouthfeel and medium carbonation. Lengthy, lightly sweet, mildly bitter, fruity finish.


 heemer77 (4343), Savannah, Missouri, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
May 14, 2005  
Dark gold with no head. The aroma is honey with some peanuts. There is also some bananas and nutmeg. The taste is bananas with some nutmeg and slight biscuit. This is fairly nice, but not a great triple.


 Silphium (2225), Haslett, Michigan, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/514/20
Jun 9, 2004  
Pours cloudy peach, with plenty of yeast "floaties" and a thin off-white head. Strange potently yeasty aroma- I believe nail-polish remover comes to mind. Yeast also dominated the flavor, with bubblegum, circus peanuts (artificial banana), clove, and nail-polish remover. The base has candy-like sweetness (light fruit) and is crackery. Kind of a "dirty" example but unique nonetheless.


 Walt (2300), Austin, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/516/20
Apr 11, 2008  
Pour is opaque golden with a thin white head...smell is yeasty and spicy with a sweet yeasty banana thing going on...lots of sweet banana flavors...faint peppery and perfumey thing toward the fnish...nice chewy mouthfeel with delicate carbonation...


 jtw (950), farmington, Michigan, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/513/20
Jun 5, 2004  
a reasonably good impression of a tripel. yeasty bready fruity aroma, and a hazy light cold color. a little too much bite, and too much alcohol presence to counteract the soft spices and esters of the beer’s backbone. not bad overall.


 jerc (4062), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/514/20
Jul 30, 2006  
Draft @ Cole’s in Buffalo, didn’t see the tap handle so I assume this is the DH Tripel I ordered. Golden yellow, with a small whi e head. Muted sweet alcoholic aroma, bit of pale malt. Sweet, moderately alcoholic flavour with plenty of pale malt. Medium palate (3+). Touch simplistic at times but quite servicable tripel, and one you could drink a fair bit of. Pleasant.


 walleye (895), Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/514/20
Jun 6, 2004  
#99 thought I would finish with 2 mich. beers. pourd cloudy yellow gold with a med size head. aroma citrus, yeast some sweetness, fruity.flavor fruity sweet like pineapple and hints of orange.I would buy again



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