Southern Tier Tripel

Pours to a glowing golden body with a thin white head. The aoma is fruity, apples, grassy, yeasty Turkish apricots. The flavor is yeasty, fruity, bananas, buttered pastry, quite hoppy with the noble style... The palate has a grassy characteristic to it. Quite carbonated, smooth body.

Thanks to Blake. light copper orangish color w/ a whispy white head. Spiced nose good amount of yeast notes light peppers. Palate is well coated and full nicely carbonated. Flavor is almsot overly sweet lots of candied sugars and carmels some light fruit notes a bit of a perfume like hop and a light pepper. Pretty Good.

Clear bright orange pour, with no real head to speak of - semi-herbal, fruity aroma of apple, apricot, with some background, grassy hops - quite hoppy and herbal up front, especially for the style - follows with a nearly over-sweet flavor of pear and apple - some slight buttery/oily qualities near the end, but mostly medium-bodied - some alcohol astringency in the finish - not as horrible as some of the more recent ratings suggest, but still not worth a second shot.

I was SO pleased to see some of the other reviews. After having had two of their other brews this month I was really looking forward to this one. I was surprised at how good the other two were; I was surprised at how uninteresting this one was. Appearance was, well, apple juice. Crystal clear golden amber, no head, no lacing; what kind of Belgian tripel is this? Mouoth was dead flat, no carbonation. A little thicker than pasteurized apple juice, but so far Mott would be pleased. At least the aroma is Belgian yeasty tripel. Taste is bready yeasty ... ok ... with a nasty metallic finish ... not ok at all. And yet some of the reviews are so positive and so different from mine. Is this a quality control problem at the brewer?

After having a few of their brews I was looking forward to this. A total letdown. There was a bit of fruity aroma and a touch of some exotic spices but as a Abbey Tripel this was very lacking in any definition. I strained to try to taste anything. Pity.

Light Belgian yeasty aroma. Sweet butterscotch, light toffee. Mild fruity hops but very mild. Dark golden amber with a bit of haze. Light off-white lacing head. Medium watery body with medium mild carbonation. Smooth drinking. Starts with medium malty sweetness, biscuit and neutral fruitiness. Dull dusty yeastiness and some light fruity farmhouse funk. Mild alcohol warming with very little bitterness. Finish is watery with dusty graina dn saccharin sweetness. Dry nutty after.

Murky bronze orange in color with a foamy white head. Sweet metallic citrus aroma. Sour citrus flavor finished a tangy malt.

Bomber. Clear and freshly polished bronze in color with fizz rising to feed a whipped, frothy white head. Easy sweet aroma of coriander and musty basements gets things going, complimented by lemon tainted buttermilk pancake mix, some steel reserves and dry orange peel backed over baguettes. Big flavorful quest brings out chewy vanilla graham pudding, like flavor, like substance. Dry, hot tongue flair from the get-go. Baguettes with rose hips and a lavender, freesia sense. Buttery lemon grass with dynamic, doughy croissants. Great carbonation levels and built to hold up over time, but perhaps the pilsener malt comes out a little too strongly in its present state. Thick canola oil infused with aged coriander seed lends to a harsh buttery bite in the end. Quite clean and quite bitter, elevating this one to the more massive end of the tripel spectrum. Finish digresses only slightly with cackled white pepper and a touch of ethanol.