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Southern Tier Tripel

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2933.19/5.03.18/5.09%33.1Trappist glass, Tulip
Commercial Description:
Don't let Tripel's light color and delicate aroma fool you, this is one serious beer brewed with maximum effort. First, we introduce freshest barley to crystal filtered water. Second, we add the best hops shipped directly for Europe. Third, our special yeast is the catalyst for fermentation, gobbling sugar and creating alcohol as it works. Some say that the Belgian monks who first brewed this style called it triple to denoted its high alcohol content. Still others believe triple's origins lay in its triple fermentation; twice in the brewery and once in the bottle. Whatever the answer, ours is the Tripel threat.
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 fiulijn (7150), Como; Lausanne (CH); Malmö (SWE), Italy
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/516/20
Aug 8, 2009  
Bottle 2007, 2 years old
Beautiful copper-amber color; small head. Sweet malt and delicate fruity aroma; maybe spices, but very light. Good body structure, it has a round malt flavor, caramel, light toffee and light nutty touch; a pleasant residual sweetness and correct bitterness; it provides a light fruity impression, with bitter oranges and something more mellow; in the end the combination of elements reminds me some sweet liquorice.
Even if not close to a Belgian Tripel, it’s surely a pleasant, balanced, interesting and well brewed Belgian Strong Ale, the sweetness and fruity touch being the best of it.


 Rciesla (3600), Exit 15W, New Jersey, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/56/104/512/20
Aug 4, 2009  
Bottle. Pours an orange hazy golden body with a white head. Citrus, lemon grass, wheat and a bread y character. Pear and some light fruity esters with a moderate warming. Not so good.


ruskiimperial (64), Richmond, Virginia, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Jul 6, 2009  
Bottled. Definitely not true to style for a an Abbey Tripel but an interesting beer nonetheless. Body is quite full, and the aroma gives off lots of hops. The slight hoppy bitterness balances out the sweetness from a typical belgian tripel. Alcohol is masked pretty well. There is a slight spiciness on the aftertaste, but it doesn’t linger too long. An interesting american spin, though not a substitute for any Trippiste Ale.


 BeerandBlues2 (3203), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/56/103/514/20
Jun 19, 2009  
Bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small, fizzy, white head, diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is average malt (straw, bread), light hop (grass, flowers), average yeast (dough) with notes of alcohol, sugar, coriander, and orange peel. Full bodied, alcoholic texture, average carbonation, and a spicy finish. Long duration, moderate sweetness and acidity, light bitterness.


 fonefan (11080), VestJylland, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jun 8, 2009  
Bottle 1pt. 6fl.oz. @ home.
Clear medium orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, light to moderate hoppy, orange, spicy, moderate yeasty, coriander notes, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, and a peppery finish. Body is medium to light full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20090126]


 riversideAK (2684), Shoreline, Washington, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
May 27, 2009  
This was a bizarre and miscategorized IMO. Gold pour with a nice fluffy head. Very non tripel or even Belgian aroma for that matter. The nose is soft and sweet, a little bland with some pilsner malts, perhaps bready with some sweet grassy notes. Bready flavor, grassy sweetness, woody bitterness. Maybe some yeasty esters, but this is way more imperial pilsner than tripel. My rating is for an imperial pilsner instead of a tripel.


 daknole (2895), Plantation, Florida, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/103/510/20
May 25, 2009  
Bottle. Pours a light amberish color. What is this? A tripel or what? Aroma has caramel malt, some fruit and hops. Flavor is dry as a bone. No normal tripel notes in this one. I don’t know what I am drinking. I don’t like it...that I do know. Vegetal and herbal notes. Weird.


 BeerBiker (1392), Kathmandu, Nepal
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/56/102/512/20
Apr 25, 2009  
[Bottle @ Odense Tasting, 14th February 2009, remembered for Carsten BeerMouths fantastic 3 meals highend gastronomy.] Although it’s long time I’ve tasted these brewdrops I remember it as one we had high expects to, but it was not especially good. Need some else than all this dryness!



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