Defiant Belgian Style Tripel Ale

Brewed by Defiant Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Pearl River, New York USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Very nice beer. Yellowy-gold in color...soft palate and honeyish start, with a typical tripel finish. Great effort by the brewer, and would recommend this beer to try if you get the chance.

Bottle pours clear yellow with the typical tripel big frothy white head. Aroma light fruits, citrus and acidity. Taste light fruits with Sweet Tarts, Belgian yeast and a little funkiness creeping in. Palate a little syrupy but very pleasant, nice mouth tingle and carbonation. Finish clean, very slight hops. Alcohol disguised.

Looks like a wide range of opinions on this one but I liked it, a very tasty tripel.

Bottle #2 for sunday night poker game. This pours pretty ugly dirty yellow. nose of lemon bread. its pretty sweet. tastes of banana, vanilla, yeast, malt, hay, and bubblegum. i’ve seen this on shelves for awhile but finally Whole Foods dropped the price and suckered me in.

750 ml corked and caged bottle poured a clear yellow with a small lingering white head. Aromas of straw, yeast, pineapple, pear and l;ight earthiness. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of straw, citrus, light yeast and a hint of earthiness with a crisp citrus finish.

Date: July 30, 2010
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: clear gold, wispy off white head, streaks of lace
Aroma: sweet malt candy aroma, light fruityness, touch of spicyness
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, touch of fruity sweetness, light phenolic spicyness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+ /4

750 ml bottle shared by bsuedekum- thanks, Blake! Pours a semi-cloudy yellow gold with a finger of foamy white head that settles quickly. Aroma of lemon, pear, pepper, coriander, grapes, oak, bready malts, and a little bit of funk. The funk shows up in the flavor, too, along with sweet malts, wood chips, pears, grapes, lemon, and peppery spice. Medium-bodied, with medium carbonation and a crisp, bready, funky mouthfeel. I thought this might have had a slight brett addition, though subtle. 9% ABV is totally masked in what is an easy sipper. Excellent tripel.

Bottle purchased at Whole Foods Bowery. Hazy yellow with a big pillowey head. Nose is bretty lemon, banana, a little fruity urinal cake (this isn’t offensive - it just is), floral & sweet candi sugar. Flavor is sweet malt, banana, belgian yeast/floral character. There is some tartness that combines with the alcohol in the finish to almost balance the sweetness but doesn’t quite get there. If it was a little less sweet I would enjoy it a lot more, but its still very nice. Kind of a hybrid Tripel/Belgian Golden Strong/Saison.

750 thanks to Secret Santa Summer 11. Even if no brett, aroma gives off enough of a yeasty smell to make you think there’s brett. Banana. Spice. Definite sugar sweetness. Very dry. Very nice.

Clear yellow with an active and large head. Fruity, yeast, light earth, and a bit of funk in the nose. Bright fruit, sugary sweet, light yeast, a bit of earth, too. Medium dryness in the finish. Real nice beer.

Hazy straw orange with thin white head, and lots of bubbles, Aroma is a bit of orange , wheat, and some sulfur. Taste is the same, with a sharp acidity and residual sugar into the finish. Not as carbonated as expected. $10/750

Bottle from hopdog. Thanks! Nose is somewhat yeasty, dusty, hints of pears and apples with some lemony notes as well as some earthy. Pours golden, hazy, nice lasting rocky head. The flavor is quenching with notes of bread, lemon, green apple, pear, dry yeasty spice. Somewhat lemony acidic finish. Nicely carbonated, dry lasting almost quenching finish at 9%. Nice stuff.