Stoudts Triple

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

Good triple, if a little different than most. Almost an abt. Beautiful amber color, dark for a triple. Great sweet flavors of sugar cookies. Very filling, almost as full bodied as barley wine. Good stuff, especially for an American brewer.

This is a very enjoyable belgian. It doesn’t jump out in any area, it’s sweet, but not too sweet. Fruity, but not too fruity. The 9 percent alcohol is nice.

Bottle, pours silty beige amber, aroma of yeast, fruit, spice and alcohol. Sweet fruity malt character is somewhat peachy with peppery notes, medium bodied mouthfeel, finish is somewhat bitter but quite yeasty with alcohol not well hidden. A decent beer but lacking some overall distinction that would elevate higher amongst it’s peers for the style.

Copper color with a small white head floating on top. Strong aroma of sweet bananas, peach, pineapple, alcohol, and bubblegum along with elements of nutmeg, spice, and yeast. Good balance of flavors wth sweet flavors of fruit, molasses and alcohol most prevelant. Additional flavors of yeast, spice, and nutmeg contribute. The finish is a sticky sweet molasses type flavoring. Interesting beer.

I like everything else in the Stoudt’s beer family, except this one. The Stoudt’s Abbey Tripel has a slightly soured malty aftertaste that I’m not fond of. When I taste a bottle-conditioned beer like this I think it probably just needed to "condition" a little longer.

UPDATED: DEC 3, 2005 caramel milky way chocolate bar in a scotch on the aroma. Almost no head, deep rusty reddy brown beer. strong alcohol taste and a hint of figs, honey, and earth. Very nicely heartwarming for the end of october. Only complaint is that it doesn’t mask the alcohol too well and it gets bothersome after you’ve drank about a third of your brew. Thank the Good Lord Almighty for Pennsylvania brews.

Jax Package Store, Sandy Springs, Ga. - 12 oz bottle. Pours a thick, very dark orange with a tight white ring for a head. Sweet aroma, essences of red licorice, alcohol, and bubble gum. Sweet flavor with some candied sugar, sweet cake mix - orange perhaps - whichh was my favorite as a kid, and a touch of yeast. Mouhfeel is pleasantly thick and not too spritzy. VEry goo American take on a Tripel.

Pours a hazy copper colour with big but rapidly diminishing frothy head. Aroma is a little sweet with yeast, fig, banana, clove and some alcohol. Taste is fruity and spicy and good. Nice mouthfeel.