Stoudts Triple

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

In the bottle at the Brickskeller. Pours a Juicy-Juice purple pink amber with no head at all. The extremely thin carbonation bubbles are long lasting to the end of the beer. This does not seem to fit the style of a Tripel, but it’s a darn good beer nonetheless. Has an oakey fruity aroma. Smells like marzipan. This has some heat to it- big alcohol burn. The sweetness is pronounced, but not dominant. In the daylight, this beer has more of an ice tea appearance. It ends with a drying finish that gets quite medicinal. When swirled with the residual yeast in the bottle, this becomes a glorious looking yellowy amber with a yellow off white head. The moral to the story is don’t let the waitress pour your beer for you or you’ll miss the yeast flavor and appearance.

Bottle (12oz). Shared with Biegaman. Murky orange with a decent white diminishing head. Sweet candy malt and somewhat herbal/bitter spicy banana and fruit aroma, some alcohol, tons of yeast - flavour’s pretty much the same, quite sweet but enough spice and yeast to balance. Body is just okay, mouthfeel is sticky, lively and it finishes with enough complexity to make this a pretty decent attempt for a NorAm triple.

Pours murky lighter brown, nice white head. I get a big banana flavor followed by other fruits, apples, pears, then some sweetness, brown sugar, caramel and a slight nutty flavor, kinda thin feeling though and almost watery, but overall a good example of this style.

gorgeuous hazy orange appearance, nice 1/2 " bubbly white froth atop... spice and citrus hit the nose right at the front...sweet and ticklish...orange and coriander, and who knows what else...enticing... Taste: sweet and tasty, orange rind, and caramel essence, ...but for a tripel it lacks complexity...exhibits a typical tripel-y flavor component, but falls short elsewhere...juicy orange and spice in every sip, but not much more. A noble attempt at the style, and a drinkable drink, but nothing to jump up and whoop about, really. Keep on trying...needs something more elevating, more ethereal, more unexpected...to really rank as a tripel.

Very good rendition. Dark carmel/orange color with no head. Tastes sweet with right mixture of spice and clove. 12oz bottle

12oz, <!-- i -->bottled on 3/22/06<!-- /i -->. Pours a cloudy orange gold with a large off-white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast, spices, pepper, fruits (pear and apple?), banana, and funk. Taste is predominantly yeasty and fruity. Quite syrupy, very sweet, some bitterness kicks in 2/3 way through and lingers in the finish. Some alcohol warmth noted. Pretty good.

Spicy and yeasty aroma. Reminds me of coriander. A bit darker and heaviers than I am used to for a triple. Big white creamy head. A bit on the sweet and malty side of the equation. Nice orange tastes. Pretty alcohol on the finish. Lasts long and smooth in your mouth.

Nice darker orange color, kind of looks like orange soda. The thin head dissipates in seconds. Smells like, guess what? Oranges. Also very slightly barnyardy, lemon, and pine. Round and heavy on the palate. Tastes like orange taffy and bubble gum. Pretty cloyingly sweet with just a hint of stale hops to balance it out. That stale hop taste I think is what people are talking about with the strange bitterness on the finish, definitely not like a nice hoppy brew. Too bad, good nose, but the flavor (sweetness) makes it pretty much a drain pour for me :(