Eel River Triple Exultation

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

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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This as good as it get when it comes to delicious high quality complex beer. There is a lot going on here. It just tastes great. Smells great and looks great. It has a background coconut flavor that is incredible. This should have a 100 rating. Has a tinge of sour that is beautiful. Friggin tasty. This beer has changed my mind about organic beers. Deep cherry amber color. Malt madness. Yeah Baby! Will buy this again and keep for special occasion.

This is an excelent representation of an english old ale. Has a great flavor profile, almost tastes like it has been aged in bourbon barrels. But then our of nowhere you get this great hops profile. A the best part this beer only gets better with age, it has won four gold medals in the aged category at the Great american beer festival. Cheers,

UPDATED: APR 15, 2007 Hot damn! This beer captivated me at the Portland Holiday Ale Fest, and is now one of my favorite all-time winter warmers. Thick, complex flavors portray chocolate, cherries, and a dash of sweet liquorish. Abysmally brown-amber with a hardiness that is masked by thoughtful ingredients. A bustling frothy head above a not-quite syrup-like body. At almost 10% ABW, you’d never know it until its too late. Take your time and share with a friend.

UPDATED: AUG 24, 2007 650 ml. Dark brown with copper-red highlights and a small, lasting head. Earthy-spiced caramel, metallic molasses, raisins, dried cereal grain and slight alcohol in the aroma. Initial flavors of molasses and spicy chocolate slowly evolve through many other tastes and finish strong with bitter, grassy, lemon herb hops. Slight alcohol on the finish is nice; not too strong. Palate is smooth, large, sticky, and slightly dry on the finish. Basically seems like a big-hopped American Barleywine (akin to Bigfoot, which I also love) but this one might use some European flavor hops, so it’s an Old Ale?

Shared with the crystal coast crew, DrBayern, and doboy. Poured from 22oz bomber a nice mahogany brown, forming off white foamy head. This beer looks sexy in my chimay goblet, aroma of fruity malts, brown sugar gunk, and roasted malted hops. Flavour is of a smooth, malted goodness. Caramel, hops, toffee, rock candy, along with a slight dark fruitiness, gives this beer a special taste. A really lovely experience of beer, tremendous.

A thick dark brown color with a tan head. It looks thick but is suprisingly smooth. It tastes a little bitter but not overly so.

It smelled strongly of bourbon/liquor, but was very sweet and pruney, slightly like raisins. It was very smooth, and very tasty. Quite drinkable, but a little high in the ABV to have too much.

From a twenty four ounce bottle purchased at "Keller’s IGA" in Cincinnati, Ohio - Alright, this one poured a dark amber, hazey brew with a rapidly fading head of foam and, yes, the malty-prune aroma others have remarked upin. Tastewise, this is a strong beer with plenty of palate and bosy, but it’s lacking in it’s stand-offishness for a dtrong brew.

Bottle. Head is initially average sized, frothy, light brown, mostly lasting. Body is dark amber to medium brown. Aroma is moderately malty (caramel, toasted bread, cookie), moderately hoppy (apricot, grapefruit, resin), with notes of vanilla, dried mango, dried blueberry, toffee, marmalade, alcohol. Flavor is heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Finish is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, moderately to heavily bitter. Medium to full body, watery/velvety/syrupy texture, lively carbonation, moderately alcoholic. A truly beautiful barleywine. Green Flash’s rendition this year blew my socks off, and this one is right up in the same ballpark. Extremely complex and enticing nose that offers equal interplay of malt, hops, and esters...an absolute joy to nose. Tropical fruit galore, rich cookie-caramel malts, vanilla-toffee, it’s really hard to imagine someone not enjoying this. And remarkably balanced in the mouth with pretty much zero abrasiveness. Dare I call it elegant? It is, though...and that’s pretty rare with a beer of this kind. Two thumbs up.

White foamy head. Not the heaviest of heads, but still there. Cloudy brown in color. Light hops in the aroma. Wonderful flavor with lots of hops mixed with malt. Heavy mouth feel. Slight warming on the back of the throat in the aftertaste. Not something I’d consume glass after glass of, but it’d be a great beer on a cold Winter’s night!!