Eel River Triple Exultation

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

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.

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.

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.

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!!

Cherry wood dark brown-amber with a thick, creamy brownish head. Aroma starts with mild fruit, then deepens and increases in complexity for the discernment of cherry and plum with a moderate hoppiness. Nice aged-wood flavor quality, dryish but not parching. Moderate hoppiness and lovely layers of fruit, cherry and plum. A wonderful raisinette (chocolate and raisin) flavor develops. Alcohol is masterfully integrated to accentuate the flavor and mouthfeel qualities. Outstanding!

Aroma of candied fruity sugar, appearance maroon and opaque with lingering foam (and bigger head on the 2nd half-bottle pour). Bitter-sugar combo on the palate, just what one seeks in beer. Yum!