Fish Tale Monkfish Belgian Style Tripel Ale

Brewed by Fish Brewing Company/Leavenworth Beers
Style: Abbey Tripel
Olympia, Washington USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Pours deep gold into a snifter. White head recedes to hug rim. Sweet tropical fruit and yeast aromas. Soft with sweet candi and yeast front to back. Dry lasting finish.

Bomber from Hayduke. This beer pours clear golden. A small white head. Light lacing. Wheat, fruit, and yeast in the aroma but it is not big. This is a bit hot. Alcohol is definitely noticed. Some grass and lemon flavors, honey, Belgian yeast, and wheat. Fruity esters. Just a hint of pepper spices and some faint barnyard effects and nice malt for a backbone. I wish this beer had more going on but it is not bad.

Had this one on tap at BeerRevolution in Calgary. The pour is a bright amber body with a finger of off white head. Lacing rings stick all along the glass. The nose is typical for a Tripel with nice lemony notes, hints of banana, clove and coriander. A mild malt in the middle with a nice spiced note of coriander, clove and honey. Quite sweet in the middle with nice light malts and a surprisngly hoppy finish. Nice and dry on the finish with nice spice in the aftertaste and an alcohol warmth.

22 oz. bottle, pours a clear golden with a tiny white head. Aroma of floral hops, yeast, and sweet malts similar to honey. Flavour of semi-sweet apples / apple juice, floral notes, honeyed malt and subtle Belgian yeast - quite unpronounced yeastiness for the style. Sub-par for the style but quite decent.

22 ounce bottle into chalice, bottled Sept 2011. Pours hazy golden straw color with a nice 1-2 finger dense light cream colored head with great retention that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Some nice lacing clings around the glass as well. Aromas of huge black pepper, clove, lemon, orange peel, biscuit, candi sugar, and spicy yeast. Great aromas here with good balance and strength. Taste of lemon, clove, biscuit, pepper, citrus peel, light candi sugar, and spicy yeast. No bitterness noticed; with lingering notes of pepper, lemon, clove, citrus peel, bread, and spices on the finish for a bit. Great balance of flavor in this, with pretty much no alcohol presence at 9%; but is still quite a sipper. Medium carbonation and body; with a fairly creamy and smooth mouthfeel. Overall this is definitely one of the better Tripels I have ever had. Great balance and drinkability for the level of alcohol.

suppose to be a triple but not much on the alcohol side and did not have aroma or taste of traditional belgian yeast

Thanks to purplehops for bringing this one along to or regular tasting. The bottle had about three years of age on it. The first thing that amazed about this brew was it’s color which was a nice shade of amber. We poured the brew into snifters and receive a nice finger worth of white head that fizzled out rather quickly to a slight ring around the glass. The aroma was what expected from a triple your typical Belgian yeast but the good thing was it was not that huge banana note but rather subdued which is a plus in my book. You also got a few notes of vanilla and spice to balance it out. The flavor was almost the same sweet and spicy with some nice fruit flavors as well. The feel in my mouth was medium and it was a bit syrupy. I liked the brew not what I pictured appearance wise from a triple but the flavor was great. Serving type: bottle

Tap @ Barleywine & Big Beer Fest... [2009 Vintage] Poured golden/amber with an off-white head. Estery, spiced nose. Mild skunk, some citrus, and other light fruits. Candied sweet malts and what tones, vanilla, yeast and a light, clean finish. This was great. I nice mix up to the heavy, viscous BW beers.

The smell and flavour remind me of that peach stuff that appears everywhere but I’ve never actually tried. It seems artificial and mine was totally flat, though there was slight mold on the bottle so maybe it’s old...? whatever, this was totally un-impressive except for the colour and the way the apricot seems to be there, but not in a real nice way.

Bottle from Healthy Spirits. Pours amber with a thin off-white head and a fruity aroma. There is a sweet caramel malt flavor with a lot of yeast and a dry bitter finish.