Flying Dog Kerberos Tripel

Pours a very hazy, coppery-gold color with a fairly small, white, creamy head which is mostly diminishing but does leave some lace. Nose is decent for the style with lots of wheat and bubblegum (strange notes but nice), some floral and black pepper, a bit of banana bready yeast notes, and some clove in there too. Flavor is not bad as well; light candi sugar, the same banana bread yeast, floral hops with a light to moderate bitterness, faint spicy warmth, honey, and faint fruit notes into the finish. Palate is lively, medium, lightly drying, and thick. Finishes a bit dry, lightly bitter, yeasty, and some fruity notes. It was not one of the better examples of the style but from a brewery who does not brew Belgian beer, it was not a bad effort. Nothing about the beer was bad or offputting but not quite to the caliber of the better examples.

(12oz bottle) Small off-white head atop hazy apple juice body. Aroma is moderately sweet, apple juice, some candi sugar, light spice. Taste is moderately sweet, Belgian yeast, candi sugar, some alcohol, orange, apple. Medium body, some stickiness. Eh.

Nice golden color,small white head that faded quickly leaving nothing behind again.Malty floaral aroma with some hints of citrus and hops.The flavor was quite good with a mild malty sweet side in the beginning then a change to a hoppy taste in the middle and then here comes the alcohol.The alcohol comes in kind of strong in the end with a nice burn but hardly disguised in anyway.It then finishes up with some mild hop bitterness.Overall it starts out quite smooth and finishes up kind of harsh with the way the alcohol and hops come on so clummsily.Not a brew i care to engage with again but it does have a good start.

Bottle. Alcohol and big pils malt nose with some light vanilla and yeast. Golden pour with a quick-scattering beige head, relatively noisy going. Crisp, sharp attack, big alcohol which is surprisingly well--integrated (warms the cheeks and throat tenderly but doesn’t burn or sting). Some light fruit but otherwise this is all malt and alcohol, with only a light hop/yeast prick in the finish. Dryish with a medium-full body. I liked drinking this more than the rating implies, but I’m not going after it again.

Bottle@Home. Sweet citrus aroma. Light hazy, yellow, small off-white head, fair lace. Sweet, bitter, hint of fruity sourness, quite malty, citrus. Pretty alcoholic, flat. Bit nasty bitter in the finish. Quite plain.

Soapy, with bananas and cloves. Light carbination, color of a pils, very thin mouthfeel

So so. Not much aroma, cold or warm. Pour is amber with little head. Flavor is OK. Warming alcohol on the throat gives it a bit of a bite. Lots of other better examples.

from Drinks of the World, Bern - cloudy golden-orange colour with a poor head retention; esters and yeast with a touch of candi sugar and pear in the nose; lively palate with chewy malts; solid sweet maltiness with a moderate late bitterness; moderately dry finish with fruity and spicy notes