Alesmith Mikkeller Stone Belgian Style Tripel Ale

Formerly brewed at Stone Brewing Co.
Style: Abbey Tripel
Escondido, California USA

Bottle thanks to funkybrewster! Pours a clear yellow golden with a medium sudsy white foam. Spicy sweet fruity aroma, some citrus, yeast, orange peel, coriander, herbal, I can’t remember the spices in here... but I’m pretty sure that I’m way off. First taste is weirdly bitter, fruity sweet, and oddly spiced. Very yeasty, herbal, bitter hops, some citrus, candi sugar, some kind of roots or something, rubber, vegetables. Finishes malty and spicy with some noticeable alcohol. Long yeasty aftertaste. Medium bodied with a lighter mouthful, creamy, lively fine carbonation. Just odd, but this bottle is less odd than the first one I had.

Bottle. Light golden colour with a white head. Spices, herbs, citrus, fruit, lightly malty, light alcohol. Strong carbonation.

Bottle. Pours gold with a fluffy head. Aroma of citrus and floral hops, light spices, and yeast. Flavor is surprisingly mellow and hoppy, perhaps this is a “hoppy” triple. Good mouthfeel, medium-bodied with crisp carbonation. Finish is clean, slightly bitter, and fruity. Great tasting, though simple.

Pours a golden orange color with a thin off white head. Light aroma of spice, hop, and Belgian yeast. Nice flavor, hop bite at the end. Nice triple.

330ml bottle. Gee there’s alot of writing on this bottle! Pours quite a clear bright orange body. Small bit of a white head hangs around atop. Spicy nose with clove and pepper outstanding, plenty of cereally malt, some ripe stonefruit and citrus flavours make their way into the mix. Quite a smooth body alround, carbonation seems on the low side for the style. Drying texture. Light malt body, bit of grainy cereal, bread and sweet honey, leading onto notes of ripe peach, banana and melon, some citrus and floral hops. Plenty of spicey clove and pepper on the finish, bit of alcohol with a drying wheaty cereal flavour. Bit disappointing. Quite well made and enjoyable but somewhat lacking in the little things that seem to make or break this style.

Bottle. Pours to a light amber with a quickly dissipating one-finger white head. Yeast still swimming after the pour. Nose is light but can still pick away fruits (berry and banana) and some spice. Classic Belgian flavor, very sweet.

Bottle. Pours golden and slightly hazy, no head. Very belgian aroma of yeast and fruits. Tastes of fruits true to the style but with lots of citrusy hops in the finish.

Bottle at Plan B, Copenhagen. Golden color, small white head. Aroma from perfume, hops, fruit, citrus and some yeasty notes. Smooth hoppy flavor, citrus and hay, grass and some dough.