Stoudts Triple

Name: Abbey Triple
Date: 02/24/2001
Mode: Bottle Conditioned
Source: Total Beverage, DC

amber, whispy head, candy sweet aroma, big body, lots of sweetness, spicy hop character begins to appear as it warms, starts off too sweet but turns out ok

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Score: *4
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The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

Nice spicy aroma. We can taste the spices cereals, but the Alcohol is killing most of the flavors of the beer.

Quite a nice triple. Delicate aroma, floral and spicy. color is golden yellow and pours with a nice head, that holds for a while, but does dissipate. flavor has some alcoholic warmth and is rather dry. some nice spiciness. quite a drinkable, medium palate.

Full-bodied and tasty; solid well made addition to the style; vanilla flavored and robust! Very nice.

These american abbey tripel imitations really make the Abbey Tripel style quite common. The abbey tripels come in two types; the in your face and the refined gentle. This one is the in your face. Cannot hold a candle to Grimbergen Blonde or Chimay White. From a growler that was filled at the Beer Store in Moon. Sweet strong ale aroma, big foamy head. Initial palate is flat, no carbonation. Very alcoholic. A little rude and unrefined. Color is off yellow and I think I can see some haze. If not, I’ll see some haze after this growler is gone. Finish is lingering volatile alcohol. Sometimes I think many american tripels should be reclassified as malt liquor.

bottle:pours a copper colour with a small off white head. aroma is sweet malts, sugar, spice, citrus and some breadiness. flavour is spices and sweet sugar malts, finishes dry and sticky.

rerate of 2001 bottle: this beer got a lot better to me so i m rerating it on the comments part of the page. the aroma had a lot more toffe and some fruit that was not present in thefirst bottle i had. the flavour got alot smoother with great caramel. new rate 7/3/7/3/16

Pours a hazy orange color with a small white head.The initial taste threw me.Did not like it cold.As it warmed it got better.The nose has malts, bread and spices.Flavor is doughy, cereal and spicy.The alcohol comes in on the rnd and warms the belly.The finish was alcohol induced, spicy yet dry.

Bottle. Light bread notes for the malt, perfume and citrus for the hops, with the usual musty smell for the yeast. In the background I noted banana, clove and freshly cut wood. Color is a clear orangy gold and the head is small, fizzy and fully diminishing. Flavor starts moderately sweet and lightly acidic and the long finish is moderately acidic and lightly bitter. Palate is light/medium, between dry and watery, and the carbonation is fizzy. I poured two glasses from one bottle, one with the sediment included and one without. I noted the pour without was more citrusy and tart, and the one with sediments was much more mellow and a bit more complex in the taste.