Dragonmead Final Absolution Belgian Style Trippel

Brewed by Dragonmead Brewery
Style: Abbey Tripel
Warren, Michigan USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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12oz bottle from The Beer Depot in Ann Arbor, MI. Pours a cloudy, golden-orange colored body with a thin, frothy, white head that dissipates quickly and leaves a moderate lacing throughout. Aroma is somewhat fruity with white grapes, orange peels, and apricots along with some esters. Clove, a touch of bubble gum, and bready yeast. Flavor is pretty yeasty and estery up front with a good amount of yeast spice. More white grapes and slightly tart orange peel along with a good amount of clove comes in during the middle. A light wheat and some more bready yeast towards the end before this finishes dry, estery, yeasty spicy, and somewhat alcoholic before leaving a lengthy aftertaste. Medium-light body with a fairly lively carbonation. Overall, a decent trippel. Fairly spicy and estery while being sweet and dry. Not bad.

Nice super hazy golden coloured body with a bright orange glow and a thin, fast-dying off-white head. Aroma of intense alcohol, coriander seed, yeast, wheat, apricots and sugars. Full-bodied; Deep carbonated taste at first with yeast, wheat and a good fruity flavour noticeable. Aftertaste shows a good complexity with alcohol, yeast, light spices and some dry hay also. Overall, a very nice trip showing a ton of good flavours, a lot of alcohol and some good sweet fruity notes. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 16-January-2011 for US$2.89 sampled at home in Washington on 15-October-2011 the day the Tigers were unfortunately eliminated from the MLB Playoffs in 2011.

Draft, aroma cough syrup, bread, b candy. . Golden hue with white head and good lace. flavor is heavy sweet. Palate is full bodied and oily soft. Overall a good one.

In short: A boring and slightly buttery strong belgian blonde ale. Meh.
How: From a bottle at Mondial de la Bière 2011
The look: Cloudy blonde body topped by a off-white ring of foam
In long: Nose is fruity and buttery. Taste has a strange bready malt backbone that I’d described as cooked pasta. Expected ripe bananas and some other light-color fruits, some lemongrass, some butter. Very limited hops presence. This Absolution was a very bland beer. A beer stand in a beer festival is very different from a confessional in a church, I didn’t have to tell my waiter about all the dirty things I do with girls to get the absolution. I told him anyway but I didn’t have to.

Sample at Dragonmead on 7/23/11. Clearish yellow pour with a thin white head. Estery aroma of banana and clove along with some candy sweetness. Candyish malt flavor with a ton of banana to follow and some spice in there as well.

Growler: Pour is murky gold with a very modest head that basically disappears - the nose is honey, clove, spices, wheat, and banana. The flavor profile is bananas, spices, noble hops, candied sugar - this brew works fairly well, but the carbonation issue was annoying.

Beast: 12oz btl from GVL West.. Pours golden color with a collared white head. unfiltered like any great beer. Belgian yeast smelling with banana and clove. hint of flower and a very smooth body.. great beer Beauty: Not available for this taste

Bottle: Pours light amber with no head. Aroma of fruit, cloves and maybe nutmeg. Sweet taste. Light body. Very,very good.

An light aroma of citrus and grape. Taste is of light citrus and a stronger grape element, with a clove-anise hint on the end. An extremely slight bitterness with a very light sweetness, nicely balanced. The mouth feel is one of my favorite parts, it feels like it fills your mouth up, not watery and not syrupy, just right, with enjoyable fizz. Probably one of my favorite Dragonmead brews.

Reddish specs of dead yeast suspended in a golden yellow package with a thin off-white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast, alcohol, honey, spice and light fruit. Taste of Belgian yeast, spice, mild fruit and toasted malt. Finishes up dry.