Bristol Lab XXX (Triple Laughing Lab)

Formerly brewed at Bristol Brewing Company
Style: Scotch Ale
Colorado Springs, Colorado USA

Serve in Thistle

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Pours brown with a red hue and a small tan head. Smells of nuts, sweet malt, dark fruit, some chocolate. Tastes of tarte cherries, roses, sweet malt, some hints of peat on the finish.

750 ml bottle poured a hazy reddish amber with a minimal quickly dissapatig amber head. Aromas of prunes, carmel, light cocoa and sourness. Palate was light bodied crisp and sour. Flavors of sour apple, carmel, light cocoa and a hint of spice with a crisp lingering sour finish.
This bottle is obviously past it’s prime. Oh well!

3rd Rating from 3rd Annual Woodshop tasting in Temple City, CA. 3/1/08. One hell of a day put on by Cquiroga, thanks for a killer day Chris. Also spent the day there with bikesanbeer, my girlfriend Cyn, wetherel, JohnC, DenverLogan, dirty_martini, jasparg, DrBil, IPAFiend, awaisanen and many others, this was one crazy day. 2004 bottle. Porus brown with an off head. Nose is sweet and sweet and sweet. Taste is sweet and sour awesome. Nothing on the style, but a beer on its own it was great.

2004 btl. Brown, small head. Sour malt aroma and taste...big funky fruit, tart, persimmon, some bitterness...sweetness is about gone by now but years ago it was significant. Very rich and tart with some bitter notes at the finish...minimum hops, big brett. It’s a triple no mo.

Had this beer on 1/2/2005. Aroma is very rich and sweet. Color is a deep clear orange/brown. Crabonation is very low with almost no head. Taste is sweet, rich and solid. Starting off with a full heavy body it goes down strong and flat. Finish comes on sweet with a rich malt flavor and mild fruit tones. It reminds me of a Barley Wine. I think it was too flat, but it is tasty.

Orange candy slices and powdered sugar in the aroma. Pale copper coloured body with low, white, fully diminishing head. Soured fruit in the musty yet sweet flavour with a simple sugary aftertaste. Medium light body with pointy carbonation. Bottle (#1346/2000) sampled at DenverLogan’s GABF wrap-up.

750ml bottle, 2004 bottling, signed and numbered 1869/2000. Strongly vinous, tart aroma, fruity and dark with abundant red grape and cherry notes amid the sweet, sour malts and with some light floral undertones. Deep garnet color with a fine, uneven head and small wisps of lace dotting the snifter. Immediately tart and fruity flavor profile, some dark brown sugar and cidery notes succumbing to the seemingly immense sour, bittersweet red wine-like presence ultimately, finishing strongly alcoholic, peppery and warming. Sticky, syrupy texture with low effervescence and a hugely full body and somewhat bracing feel. Quite challenging but interesting and certainly very unique in its way... A full bottle is not something one would want to take on alone, however.

dark red pour and a thin grey head. buttered pancake aroma. taste is tart caramel. not good. i don’t know what they put into the laughing lab to make it triple, but it wasn’t good and the lab is not evening smiling.

(Bottle, #1635) Pours a cloudy amber with a moderate off-white head. Aroma of banana bread dough and sour fruit. Flavor of malt, cider, and lactic.

Lumpy has it right on this, not only from our bottle from other peoples’ ratings: I suspect either a quality control problem emerge that is unfortunately hitting this beer or there was some kind of a problem in the conceptualization of the recipe. Either way, it’s too bad because you’d like to see a good brewery have a good anniversary brew. In my case, I found an aroma like a banana pancake batter, sourdough bread, and a bit like cider, almost sour. Almost fruity, too, like a Flemish sour--which I liked. Bronze color. Becomes a bit better with warming and familiarity, giving raspberry, strawberry, and the warming finish of grape.