Stoudts Triple

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 :(

The aroma has some bubble gum and yeast, lots of alcohol and malt and a little bit of spice. The appearance is cloudy orange brown with some small particles and an off white head. The flavor has bananas, alcohol, malt, clove, and pepper. The palate is pretty good but the aftertaste is an unpleasant astringent bitterness.

Cloudy orange with an off-white head. Laces the glass nicely. Smells like cloves and butter. Tastes like bananas and yeast with a finish that is reminiscent of candy circus peanuts. Good beer.

12 oz. bottle from Dilly Deli. Bottle conditioned. Drank on 5/11/06. Pours medium cloudy, deep dark copper, almost amber. Way darker than your normal golden trippel. Very thin off-white head that goes away to a ring of foam almost immidiately. No lacing. Haze went away as it warmed - must’ve been chill haze. Smells like a trippel. Banana, cloves, and that belgian spicy yeast thing going on. Catching some sweet malts in the background too. Flavor - bitter in front on the tongue. Then some belgian complexity comes into play - a little spicy. Little bit of cloves. This is mixed with and goes back and forth with some big sweet malts reminiscent of a big american IPA or IIPA. Alcohol warmth becomes more present as the beer warms. Palate is solid medium to thick mouthfeel balanced nicely by a good amt. of carb. and sharp hop bitterness. Little bit of a dry finish. Overall a very good beer, but different and like it’s having a hard time "finding" itself. It’s called a trippel, but it’s more like a wierd cross between a trippel, a dubbel and an american IIPA. It’s good though. I haven’t had too many american brewed belgians. I would definitely buy this again and would like to try some other offerings from Stoudt’s.