Green Flash Trippel

Hazy golden color with a small head. Aroma is sweet, clove, banana, and citrus. Flavor is all of the above, great balanced flavor, a bit too much carbonation from the bottle for me.

Pours a clear apricot color with a small creamy head. Aroma is of honey, cream, bread, banana, and Circus Peanuts candy. Flavor is disappointingly lethargic. Lots of light sweet malt, a barely-perceptible fruit flavor, and that’s it. Mouthfeel is smooth, velvety, nice. Overall, good minus.

Beautiful, luminescent golden color. Cloudy but with lots of light emanating from it. Medium white head shrinks quickly. The color is top notch; lots of carbonation. The smell is a spicy aroma; orange zest. Citrus and lemon. The aroma sits effervescently above the glass. A funky yeast too. Balanced and spicy. Hint of malt grain at the end. The funky, sourish yeast and malt come out in the taste. Some bright, citrusy notes of lemon and orange peel. A hint of puckery sweetness on top; some sour apple. The citrus really puts it over the edge. Good balance. Fizzy and bubbly like water on a hot skillet. Mellows with time. A very nice, not too harsh tripel. Sweet fruits and a spicy Belgian balance.

22oz bottle from Belmont Station, pours a nice orange with a huge bubbly head that quickly dissipates. A slightly fruity bread aroma greets me then a little spice. Flavor is fruit, faint clove, a nice sweetness but balanced well by the hops. I like this as an American try at the trippel, not a classic trippel by any means but a worthy beer.

Burnt orange pour with some head that quickly disappears. Aroma of honey, candi sugar, some yeast and spice. Definitely some weird grain thing going on here with otherwise nice spicey, honey notes. Kind of a lingering juicy fruit finish. Not too sweet but almost too sweet, the hop bitterness isn’t really detectable. Alcohol isn’t either, though. Not the worst, but not the best trippel.

750 ml growler filled at Bellport Cold Beer and Soda and consumed the same day. Pours a hazy gold with an ever-so-slight tinting of olive oil green with a moderate linen white head that dissipated fairly quickly and left no lace. Aroma of yeast, spice and some husky grains. The flavor is again yeast, spice and husky grains along with just a bit of banana emerging towards the finish. The banana flavor lingers in the aftertaste. Mild-medium bitterness at the finish.

On tap at Tustin Brewing’s 13th Anniversary party, this spicy, fruity beer was pretty tasty.

Bomber. Deep gold body with a slightly off-white, fizzy head, mostly diminishing. The aroma of spicy with clove. Notes of husky grain and orange and just a hint of nail polish remover, something that shows up more in the taste. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter and avoids the tendency of many tripels to be over-the-top sweet, though it gets close and is too sweet for a tripel. There is nail polish remover taste in the finish that seems accentuated by alcohol/clove flavors. Medium body, velvety texture and lively carbonation. A fairly average tripel that fails to deliver distinct flavors.