Franklins Tripel Bliss

Brewed by Franklins Restaurant, Brewery & General Store
Style: Abbey Tripel
Hyattsville, Maryland USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Bottle: Pours a transparent deep golden bronze with a spotty-lacing white head. Has a sweet biscuity pale malty nose with some clove spice, a touch of caramel and light fruity esters. Starts with good fullness and rich malty sweetness with a fine carbonation and good peppery clove spice before a slightly warming semi-sweet finish. Pretty true to style and enjoyable.

On tap 4 oz. sample at Maryland Craft Beer Festival 2012. Clear, sparkling golden straw color with fine white head and good lacing. Aroma of yeast, banana, cloves, spice, light fruit and caramel. Taste is sweet, malty and spicy with cloves, spice, light fruit, yeast and banana. Medium body and carbonation. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Quart bottle: Pours a slightly hazy yellow with a large rocky white head, aroma has lemon, pepper, and a touch of boozy seaweed, starts bitter and ends sweet with a lemon ending with a nice warmth. Playful carbonation, medium bodied, yum.

Cold, 32oz, swing top bottle: Pours a hazy golden color with a large, fluffy alabaster head that leaves lacing. Aroma is of light grains and spice. Taste is of light grains and lemon with sour notes. Ending is sudsy and somewhat bitter. Medium bodied and crisp with good carbonation.

on tap-pours an offwhite head with orange color. Aroma is spice-clove, light/medium malt-sweet/caramel, slight hops. Taste is spice-clove, light/medium malt-sweet/caramel, slight hops, yeast and alcohol.

Bottled. Has that light banana smell but not too much hoppines. Appears more like an IPA and less of a dark brown cloudy. Bitterness is present, but not too hoppy; finishes nicely. Nice yeasty flavor, with good, more complex alcohol features.

On draft at Franklins in a tulip. Hazy orange pour with a thin white head. Aroma is Belgian spice, fruit a little sweet malt. Flavor is spicy Belgian. Nice offering.

Draft. Served in a tulip, golden orange color with a healthy white head. Soft aroma of hops, yeast and spice. Flavors included orange, citrus hops and honey - but was much milder than I expected for a Tripel. Hard to believe this is 9% ABV.

Draft. Served in a tulip glass. Arrived at the table a hazy orange color with a very thin off-white head. Mandarin oranges, a touch of caramel, honey, some vanilla, and a very light grapefruitiness in the aroma. Goes down medium to full-bodied and smooth. Light caramel and juicy oranges upfront taste-wise. Smooth vanilla in the middle. Finishes with a bit of lemon and pepper. Some warming alcohol present throughout. Pretty tasty.

Draft. Minimal off-white head atop murky amber body. Aroma is moderately sweet, orange, some honey, cotton candy. Taste is moderately sweet, orange, some honey, citrus, candi sugar, light alcohol warming. Sticky medium-full body, low carbonation.