Stoudts Triple

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

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.

Hazy light orange color with small white head. Strong sweet brown sugar, molasses and malt aroma. Tastes just as it smells with strong sweet flavor, high carbonation, that Belguim yeast/spice and malt. I don’t detect much in the way of hop flavor or bitterness.

Decent triple, Nice aroma, a bit fruity, a cloudy base, smooth aftertaste, with a hint of bitterness

Light brown with a lingering white head. Taste is pleasant, strong but not overpowering. Banana, some spice, and yeast are dominate flavors. Alcohol is noticeable but not overpowering. Pretty decent, but still not among the best triples I’ve had.

Pours light brown, off white head. Aroma is banana sweet and smooth, easy to smell and pleasent to the nose. Flavor is sweet, more power, banana, pepper, smooth.

Bottled 3/22/06. Might benefit from a little more aging. Pour is bright orange with a short lived white head. Aroma is bubblegum and alcohol, even a whiff of model airplane glue. Flavor is candy sweetness, melon, a little yeastiness, spice, and some hop bitterness. The alcohol really shines through. Tastes like more than 9% which is odd because the Stoudt’s Fat Dog Imperial stout is also 9% and the Double IPA is 10.6% and I don’t taste the alcohol in them at all. I’m a fan of good Belgian triples and while this is fairly good, it slightly misses the mark. If this were $8 a sixer like in Boca Raton, it would be fine, but at $13.99 at Broudy’s, Orange Park FL it’s not worth the admission.