Stoudts Triple

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

We gave this a try due to liking Fat Dog. This is not bad just not as good as many other triples available.

Thought this was just sort of OK. Tripel is one of my favorite styles, but this one struck me as pretty average for the style. It’s appearance was fine; it was a hazy straw color with some, but not a ton of head. Aroma was a bit of canned corn, which dissipated after it sat in the glass a bit. It was replaced by the more traditional tripel aromas of clove and sugar. Flavor was a touch thin, but really not bad. Mouthfeel was not as effervescent as a lot of other triples I’ve had; seems like most other tripels I’ve had with this very fine mouthfeel are secondary fermented; not sure if this one is or not but it’s flavor and mouthfeel didn’t strike me as such. Not an unpleasant beer by any stretch, but I’d much rather have a victory Golden Monkey. I bought this bottle at Jungle Jim’s in Fairfield, OH.

Tripel trèes piquante. Dorée, aux arômes de fruits (citrons-oranges). et légèrement vanillée. Saveurs de citrus et d’épices et un peu trop aigre.

bottle pours a orange passion fruit color. very sweet with some toffee and candied sugar. ok. no smooth hoperator.

Pours a beautiful yellow-golden with a fairly thick white head. Aroma is not strong but malty and rather fruity, mainly apple or pear. Malty flavor has a firm undertone of fruit, almost like a ribbon of cider through the beer. Texture is pleasingly smooth and quite tingly and jazzy.

Bottle. Opaque orange beer, fleeting white head. Aroma is tripley, yeast/spice. Feels good on the mouth, nice fruity,spicy, yeasty flavor. Finish is smooth, nice representation of the style.

Bottle. Pours hazy orange similar to a hefe, no head at all. Nose is alcohol, yeast and melon.. proportionally in that order. Taste possesses the same banana and ester characteristics of a hefe too. Yeast, sugar, slight clove and sharp spices flourish in the near finish. A significant amount of alcohol silents the softness. I think I found an overrated Triple.

12 oz bottle, from brewery. Pours a clear dark gold body with a small fizzy white head that faded quickly. Very heavy pale malt nose with some light yeast derived fruitiness and lots of alcohol. Light tropical fruits. Heavily malt driven flavor with lots and lots of spiciness. So much in fact that it prickles the tongue. Way too much alcohol flavor and no malt/yeast complexity or softness. This is like their Mai-bock with some triple spicing. The yeast character is all but missing. Heavy and thick with fizzy prickly carbonation. Cloying sticky finish. This just wasn’t what I look for in a Triple.