Allagash Tripel Reserve

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

Bottle: Poured a light golden color beer with great carbonation and good head retention. Aroma is quite sweet with a nice floral background. Taste is sweeter then expected but well balance by some spices and wheat. Would have been better with a bit more kick (spices, it seems a bit light compared to Westmalle or De Dolle Tuve. Still very enjoyable but it seems a bit overrated compared to some other abbey tripel beer out there.

Batch 62. Poured a fairly pale yellow color with a small head that disappeared quickly and didn’t lace all that great. A little bit of a fingering along the edges of the glass, but not much else interesting. Pretty subpar for the style. Aroma was nice, spices and some citrus type smells. The flavor was of light citrus, some spices, some bitter orange rinds, and definitely yeast. In fact, this one was more bitter than many a triple, without the complexity of sweetness and other malty stuff going on behind the scenes, or in the early flavors. Alcohol came on strongly as it warmed, a little too warming. A nice beer, but somewhere between 50 percentile and 75 percentile examples from the style. Mouthfeel was thick and of average carbonation.

Great Pac NW Hwy 101 Family/Beer Trip 2009
Aroma: Nice Belgian yeast and malt aroma nice candy fruitiness.
Appearance: Dark Golden yellow in color, Clear with a light head.
Flavor: Nice Belgian triple lots of fruit flavors spices and wonderful yeast.
Palate: Dry Belgian Finish, with a Great Mouthfeel.
Overall: Tasty triple this was a wonderful beer.

Cloudy pale yellow color with a medium white head and lasting lace. The aroma is slightly sweet and lemony with a touch of spice and yeast. The flavor is spicy, yeasty and malty with a hint of citrus. Heavy bodied, warm in the throat, tingly on the tongue.

sampled blind at "Better Know a Style: Abbey Tripel". pours clear, pale gold with white head. nose of cloves, yeasty, citrus. flavor is citrusy, orange peel, alcoholy, toasted biscuit. lively carbonation, decent stuff.

Aroma of yeast, banana, light citrus, honey and floral. Light yellow in color. Medium frothy white head. Alcohol fairly present at the beginning, mellows with time. Taste complex, similar to aroma. Carbonated, with a nice body. Good beer.

Batch 54: Poured hazy yellowish orange with a nice fluffy white head...smell is sweet with lots of tropical scents and then strong spice with anise, pepper, and coriander coming through...the taste was very fizzy with a nice sweet malt flavor up front, giving way to a growing vegetable bitterness in the back...like an orange rind...finish is very dry...a great beer, but if it was a touch sweeter it would be rated much higher...

Batch #28. Like their own description, subtle banana & honey flavors. It has a great nose; reminds me a bit of a white beer. It’s cloudy yellow w/ a big white frothy head.