Pisgah Solstice Tripel

Brewed by Pisgah Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Black Mountain, North Carolina USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Draft in a flight at the brewery. This was really too sweet and yeasty for my taste. Very off-putting. Great aroma, but the taste doesn’t follow it.

Pale honey pour. Clove and banana aroma. The taste had the subtle fruits, banana, apple, and was very sweet for a tripel. Good mouthfeel...light.

I’m so glad the brewery is just down the street. Stopped in on my Asheville summer brewery tour to have a glass. Pours a hazy orange-straw into the glass, with a huge pillowy head that leaves fluffy whipped lacing. The nose has tons of banana and bubblegum notes. Lots of belgian yeast provides a bready note to the fruity esters, sweet wheat and banana flavors. Some clove enters toward the end, and couples with a touch of alcohol in the finish. The mouthfeel is a bit lighter than I expected, but still full-bodied and complex. A nice tripel I’ve had not the chance to rate until now. Tasty!

Poured with a huge head. Very mild clove and banana aromas. Taste is very mild clove, banana and fruity esters. Wine like flavor in the middle, maybe due to age. Overall, I really enjoy this beer.

7/18/11 pisgah solstice sampled at pisgah. later at thirsty monk (cause it was free!). Hazy pale honey color with a small white head. A orange, yeast, spice, sweaty, apples. F too sweet for a tripel... A=F Meh...6/3/6/3/13

Draft at the brewpub. My favorite of the visit. Bright golden. Active. Fruity and light, yet delivering a decent kick. Quite good. (#4282, 10/4/2011)

on tap at pisgah, cloudy hazy yellow belgian style strong ale. banana and bubble gum overtones,. bready yeast. decent lacing on glass. strong alcohol burn that just lingers. the warmer the beer got the sweeter it got and the spices came out.

Tap at pisgah - pours a clear gold with a white head. Aroma is rosin and spicy like clove, maybe? I can’t place it. Taste is fantastic, a little sweet with a lingering bready,creamy finish. Overall, this is fantastic! I wouldn’t have known this was almost 10% apv if they hadn’t mentioned it.

750ml.corked in snifter pours golden pale, cloudy, rocky white head, nose of clove,coriander, citrusy floral herbs, banana, medium sweetness-light sweetness, lightly bitter, lightly sour earthiness great year-around beer only if they made it but still great

Pours golden from large bottle bought at Bruisin’ Ales. Aroma smells of baking bread and apple pie. Sweet to the lips but not on the tongue. Balanced taste with baking spices on the tongue and a clean finish. Like a good Tripel it hides its 9.5% very well.