Eel River Triple Exultation

Brewed by Eel River Brewing Company
Style: Old Ale
Fortuna, California USA

Picked this up and thought it was a triple. I’m relieved it’s an Old ale. Reddish pour with thin white head. Rich, malty aroma. Some caramel, a bit of cherries and grass. Flavor is moderately hoppy and bitter, some caramel, some cereal. Finish is dry hoppy bitterness and cereal malt. Very tasty, actually. Easily one of the best Organic beers i’ve ever had.

Poured a deep amber color with an small off-white head. Strong, rich, malty aroma with lots of molasses. Hops come out a lot more in the flavor, which leaves a little bitterness. Medium bodied, nicely hidden alcohol, and a long malty finish.

Reddish amber, small head, but fell to a nice concentrated quarter inch. Hot with alcohol, orange liqueur and perfume. Very boozy, some dry cereal and meh. I can’t see past the somewhat gummy heat.

Good clarity and hue with thick foamy head. Nose is caramel, dark fruits, and booze that is underwhelming for the style. Taste is rich malts with a touch of grassy/earthy hop flavor and alcohol warming in the finish. Mouthfeel is watery with prickly carbonation. Not to style, there is little sustaining flavor here to counter the hefty booze, not recommended.

Tasting at the Keg and Barrell, nice red color with little to no head. Some malt and caramel but the tast just didn’t do it for me.

Taste 2/9 Bottle. Looks: Deep caramel body with a thin top. Aroma: Booze, dark fruits, sweet malt and some citrus. Taste: Boozy and malty with a hoppy finish. I don’t really like it that much.

This shit sucks. It is a carbon-copy of my second extract homebrew where I thought it would be a good idea to freestyle the recipe boiling 7lbs of extract in 2 gallons and throwing random amounts of palisade leafs in whenever the fuck I felt like it while I oversteeped by 3x the called for Crystal malt because I wanted to pump-up the malt mouthfeel . Recently finished the 48th bottle of the burnt caramel, soapy POS chewy grained sonnofabitch and was happy to never have to taste such a waste of time and good ingredients... then I cracked open this wunderbier at home on a sickday and proceeded to ruin my viewing of the new Eastwood Classic,Unforgiven contemplating whether to cut bait and pour it out or bite the bullet and hope it wouldn’t taste too bad puking it up later that evening. Ugh.

Somewhat darker color than expected, but lovely head (just the right amount) and a rather lovely projection of its aroma. Great balanced flavor, with a titch of hops but a rounded maltiness, spice, very moderate alcohol, a bit of fruit. Went extremely well with a bowl of moderately-spiced chili. Very well done beer.