Blue Mountain Mandolin Tripel

Formerly brewed at Blue Mountain Brewery
Style: Abbey Tripel
Afton, Virginia USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Pours a hazy orange bronze with a spotty white head. Aroma of toasty caramel malts with an authentic biscuity Belgian yeastiness. Body starts with a nice light Belgian malty sweetness and some honey flavors with a touch of orange peel and floral bitterness before a drier, finish. A pretty good Belgian tripel.

Bottle, purchased at the brewery in summer 2011 and settled for several months. Very attractive pour of dark orange, piled with an inch of frothy, white foam. The initial whiff is laden with robust spiciness, laced with a bit of orange rind and airy yeast. It drinks with a certain meatiness, the whipped character leading to a fulfilling depth. The aroma rings true in the flavors, earthy and herbal, sweet and bready, and eventually a bit fruity. Wonderfully done. (#4568, 4/13/2012)

dark golden with large whtie head. nose of apricots and other fruits. low carbonation for the style. flavor is composed of a lot of the above fruity esters, really producing an impressive yeast component. the residual sweetness is moderate for the style, as is the alcohol presence. overall it tastes more of a fruity blonde than a triple, but it’s quite nice

BCTC. Thanks argo0. Yellow orange with head and lace. Spice and candy sugar aroma. Sweet candy sugar and spicy cinnamon (?). Nice soft palate. Pretty good.

750 ml bottle shared by argo0 at bctc 2010. Pours a hazed light golden copper with a thinning head. Aroma is oxidation and tons of cardboard, diacetyl, sherry and stale paper with some spicy phenols and pepper. Flavor is more old ox cardboardy malts, acetaldehyde, crackers, dms, musty and phenolic with a peppery finish. Meh.

75cl bottle. Hazy apple juice body with medium white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, caramel, some butterscotch, alcohol. Taste is moderately sweet, caramel/butterscotch, some alcohol. Medium body, light acidity.

Serving: 750 ml. bottle from the brewery. It pours a deep gold color with a merangue like white head. The nose is subtle with notes of light honey, spice, dust, and yeast. The flavor is light and slightly dry. Very little hop prescence. Slightly sweet with notes of honey, florals, spice, and yeast. Light body with medium to high, soft carbonation and a short, slightly sweet and dry finish. This bottle had about a year of age on it and I think it’s done it some good. Rather tasty overall and worth a try.

Old rating that I forgot to put in. Bottle from Kinz from FFB last year. Aroma of yeasty bread and sweet fruits. Appearance is gold body with off-white dirty head. Flavor is dried fruits and sweetness along with a spicy bittering agent. Billter on the palate. Thanks for the beer!

25 oz bottle. Pours a dark copper body, very clear on first pour with a two finger frothy off-white head that had good retention. The nose is thick and heavy pale maltiness with some nice perfumy flowery hops. Lighter tropical fruits and yeast. The flavor is very perfumy, it’s almost chemical tasting at times. Very simple malt profile, not much complexity here from the yeast. Moderate alcoholic finish. Fairly thick and viscous with a very weighty finish. Light pinpoint fizzy carbonation. Not a whole lot of depth here, coupled with the weird chemical taste, it adds up to not too much to get excited for here.

Poured at the Cigar City Bolita release party. Gold pour. Small whte head. Yeasty as hell on the nose wtih some faint spices. Flavor is ok. Yeast, spices, light fruits and lots of bubbles.

750mL cork and caged bottle courtesy of CrellMoset. The cork slid out very easily with nary a sound and poured completely still into the glass. There was maybe a stray bubble along the top but almost no carbonation evident at all. The aroma smell like red apple rinds with some fruity esters evident as well. There are hints of spiciness as well. The taste follows the aroma and has an apple juice character. There is definitely a spicy yeast presence in the taste, and there is a faint hop bitterness that comes though a bit. The mouthfeel is the real problem with this one and I fear I just got a bad bottle. It was completely flat with no hint of carbonation. The aroma and flavors in this beer seem to suggest a very solid Belgian tripel, but the mouthfeel really holds the whole thing back and makes it tough for me to judge.