Stoudts Triple

Brewed by Stoudts Brewing Co.
Style: Abbey Tripel
Adamstown, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

Pours a fairly cloudy orange with a small white head. Smells of some musty citrus fruit, a little candy sugar and spice. Nothing too inviting. Flavor is pretty rich and syrupy, with a pretty heavy and noticeable dose of alcohol attacking right up front and not letting up. Get some sharp bitter orange citrus fruit and syrupy sugars. A little too bitter for a tripel for me, and seemingly a bit overdone. Not a style I usually get excited about in the first place, but this beer was disappointing.

Pours a clearish golden with a white head. Very sweet with bitterness kicking in half-way through. Hint of citrus. Bready. High carbonation.

NIce banana aroma, not strong. Cloudy amber, floaties, no head. Orange, lemon, and clove flavor. Great cilantro finish. Medium body, slightly phenolic, well balanced.

12 ounce bottle- pours a golden orange color with a moderate and long lasting head. Aroma was citrus and fruit. Taste was a suprisingly sweet fruit blend with apples and cherries in the fore. A touch thin bodied, but all-in-all a good solid brew.

Hazy orange color. Full body and lingering head. Lots of fruit and spice flavors.

12 oz, bottled 11/08/2007. Hazy peachy-bronze with a three-finger meringue on top. Juicy Fruit chewing gum aroma. Initial flavor is the same: apricot-mango-banana-clove bubblegum. Some alcohol, apples, and minty herb show up at the finish. Soft, medium body is a little alcohol-tingly, and a little sticky.

Not as good as the Tripels I’ve had from Belgium but a pretty good attempt at one. Pours an orange color topped with a thin head. Some lacing ends up on the glass but appearance wise it just doesn’t look as good as some of the Belgian Tripels. The aroma is quite strong with banana, citrus and vanilla and all of it appearing to be quite sweet. Not really lacking in the flavor department either. It starts with a spicy citrus flavor with a yeasty wheaty taste mixed in then turns slightly sour and alcoholic. It does seem a little like a stronger Hefeweizen but it’s a tad too sweet. The alcohol is hidden pretty well though and there isn’t much of an aftertaste at all. The texture is rich and syrupy but I’d like a fuller better balanced mouthfeel. Overall it’s a good beer but it’s hard to rate it any higher when there are so many better options in the style.

Tap at Stoudts. Cloudy amber gold with white head. This triple was rich, creamy, and silky smooth with plenty of spiciness and flavor. Moderate sweetness balanced nicely with the hops. Well into medium bodied. Alcohol perfectly integrated. Was the best thing we had that day at Stoudts.