Stoudts Triple

Bottle. Poured dark hazy amber with an average creamy off-white head. Aroma and flavor was moderate sweet yeast and fruity complex average finish. Medium to full body with a light alcohol bite.

Plenty of fruity/spicy esters, a lot of yeast, but surprisingly low carbonation. Nice head and lacing--crisp, lasting white on top of a murky body. Didn’t drink like 9%. Flavors are a bit muddled with all the yeast in the mouth. Plenty of fruit and sweetness, dryish finish and aftertaste.

Really nice aroma, ripe apples and plums, allspice and cloves. Dark for a triple, orange-amber, hazy, quickly diminishing white head. Sweet flavor of honey, plums, pears, spicy cloves, and a hint of citrus. Dry in the finish, a bit of alcohol is noticeable. Medium body, lower carbonation than is typical for a Belgian style. Very nice overall; fruity, spicy, and interesting.

03.24.05 12oz bottle. Honey-gold-amber-orange pour with swirling white head that lingers. Bold fruity aromas of unripe pear, pineapple, sweat, melon. Did I say sweat? Nice soft palate without too much sweetness but plenty of coating thickness, citrus skin oiliness; clean tingle of fine eff to finish. Tastes nice and it’s probably much better now than fresh. Fruit salad and clove; strong alcohol presence is boozy as well as a touch spicey. The more I sip, the more I like...ahhh, 9% brews have a way of doing that, don’t they? Sweet aftertaste doesn’t let me forget the serious fruit salad flavors.

Strong fruity apricot and pineapple aroma with some candy-like sweetness. Golden amber orange with plenty of yeast in suspension. Shy white head recedes to ring. Apricots, pears, apples, pineapples and mangoes in a veritable fruit salad that is mostly sweet but has a slightly sour twang. Other than the extreme fruit fest, there’s not much else in flavour aside from plenty of residual sweetness. It seems almost unattenuated and worty to me. Fair to moderate carbonation is prickly on the tongue. Medium-full body. Bottle (trades Feb. & Mar. 2005) sampled with Lubiere and Rastacouere. Thanks DocLock and hopscotch for the trades! Resampled from a different batch with MartinT, Olivier MTL and Rastacouere and could not finish a glass. Not re-rated.

Totally opaque caramel appearance containing muddy yeast clouds. A decent white cover tops it all. Very yeasty nose where the mango clearly dominates. Not very dry for a tripel, mostly cantaloupe, orange and honey sweetness. Fairly limited complexity, and frankly a bit bland yeastiness. Strong fruitiness matches a crusty yeastiness into a condensed fruit peel finish. Overall mellow yet with biting small bubbles. Medium bodied. Atypical..

This beer pours a hazy full copper color, it is fairly well carbonated but does not hold more than a wisp of a head upon careful pouring. When roused the head is a full tan color, though still on the thin side. The aroma is fresh and ripe, with notes of sharp apple, pear, an earthy herbal note, and hints of ginger, pepper, clove, and vanilla.

The taste is sweet up front with a fairly full mouth-coating body to it. The finish is earthy and makes me think of coriander. There are some fruit notes here as well; I get notes of apple, green grapes, and raisins. This beer has a nice sharpness to it that seems to be a combination of prickly carbonation and spicy yeast character.

As this beer both, loses its initial carbonation and warms up a bit it begins to soften up on the palate. The earthy coriander character in the finish seems to become a bit more noticeably, though in truth it was always an evident feature of this beer, This is a pretty good version of a Triple, if I had to guess I would say that it was brewed with a yeast that was derived from the Chimay strain, as it has that characteristic, almost earthy quality to the yeast spiciness.

Yellowish dense head over hazy amber-orange beer. End of bottle is solid opaque yeast. Perfumed, dry-spicey (cloves) nose, quite citrussy. Fiery burning caramel and leafy taste, touch of butterscotch, orangezest, fruity & spicey flavours. Dry bitterish finish. Burning MF, alcohol, slick, well-bodied. Good tripel, well in the established style requirements. "Glowing orange" is not a bad description, and I’m not talking about appearance alone.