Allagash Tripel Reserve

Brewed by Allagash Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Pours honey colored with a good head. Nice belgian smell with honey, crackers, citrus and hops. Medium bodied with a good taste to go with the aroma.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy golden color with a half finger head. Smells of herbs and a little bread. Taste is smooth, somewhat dry, with some minor sweetness. This has a delightful finish.. no alcohol on the tongue. A great Tripel.

29-12-11 Bouteille 330ml: Très belle couleur jaune-blonde légèrement trouble avec reflets dorée. Mousse blanche abondante qui disparait tranquillement laissant une petite couche et collet. Effervescence moyennement vive. Délicieux arômes de fruits tropicaux, de bananes, avec une touche de craquelin et de miel. Légèrement sucrée, avec une moyenne amertume et une petite note surette en finale. Saveurs de fruits tropicaux, de craquelins sytle premium plus et d’une toute petite touche de miel. Corps moyen avec une texture ronde et enveloppante, mais légèrement croutillante. Bonne carbonisation et finale moyennement astringente, fruitée avec une touche d’alcool. Très bonne tripel.

Pours golden with a thick white head. Smells of fruit and herbs. Taste is mildly sweet with some sourness and bitterness. Hints of honey and sour fruit.

750ml bottle batch 168. Had this a few times but thanks to David have a bottle to rate. Golden, hazy yellow with a billowy and creamy white head, at least one finger, that gradually settles leaving layers of lace stuck on the glass. Belgian yeast, sugar, grains, alcohol, coriander, banana. Fairly smooth but the alcohol lends a bit of a bite, slightly sweet throughout, some malt, banana and coriander at the end, becomes fairly dry. Quite nice but I think this is something that would benefit from sitting for a few months, maybe longer, for the alcohol to fade a bit.

Bottle, pours a nice bright yellow, aroma is nice and a bit of spice, this one is really quite nice, it doesn;t have alot of flavour but it works for the beer, its really nice, good offering

Bomber. Pours hazy yellow with a large, dense white head. Aroma is malty, floral, some citrus. Flavor is malty, wheat/banana, some other fruit (maybe passion fruit, but I think I’m just impressionable), honey, some mild yeastiness. Thick mouthfeel. Lots of carbonation. Alcohol is warming but well hidden. Drinkable and delicious.

Slightly cloudy yellow. Faint banana aroma. Very light flavor as well, a little tart raisin I guess.

Pours a dense golden orange with a lingering white head and some lacing. Has a very fruity nose. Apricots, banana, pineapple. Lots of herbal and spicey notes and belgian yeast. Very enticing. Taste has quite a bit of belgian yeast and spice. Coriander & clove. Some fruitiness as described in the aroma and honey for a welcome sweetness and an underlying hop presence all makes for a well balanced and exceptional tasting beer. Medium to full body with a long dry finish with just a bit of both the sweetness and hop bitterness carrying through. Smooth with the perfect carbonation and plenty of warming alcohol. Really enjoying sipping on this one.

Fresh, grassy, yeasty aroma. Big, foam-producing head. Sweet and hoppy like a good tripel should be, with a drying hop finish. It is lacking a bit in the orange and raisin flavors that I hope for in a good abbey brew. Some dry, bready flavor and a little lemon peel too. It is doing very well on the RB charts - the #3 tripel as of this writing - I think that is a little too high, but I am still a fan.