Stoudts Triple

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

Slightly cloudy copper pour with small frothy head. Aromas are floral and fruity with a sweet yeasty backdrop. Flavor is pretty big. Slightly astringent character is a bit distracting, but nice sweet malt mixes with clove-like spices and fruit notes in the guise of apple and orange. Fairly decent, if the flavor could do a bit more to cover the rubbing alcohol flavors that develop about midway through.

pours a light orange. medium carbonation. The aroma is pretty fruity, get apples/pears, tart lemon, and spices. Taste is estery apples, it has a full rich body across the palate with tart citrus flavors and alot of spices, especially clove and black pepper.

12oz bottle First off, these new 12oz Stoudt’s beers have more yeast in them then you can imagine. Cloudy orange-yellow, with large yeast chunks milling about biding there time before releasing their vitamin B into my gullet and hopefully keeping my head from aching tomorrow. Rocky off-white head. The aroma is sweet and yeasty. Light citrus and very earthy. Flavorwise sweetness and light spice are dominant. The citrus disappears. Lighlty bitter. Alcohol is present, though in a good way. Medium to full body. Slightly harsh carbonation. A good though not greast triple. More than any othe style, excellent triples seem to be few and far between.

Popped this open on New Years Eve. I had been sitting on this for a year, after purchasing from Hi-Time in Costa Mesa. Last Stoudt’s beer I had wasn’t bad but far from anything that I’d call "must have". This beer poured out a deep copper/gold color, clear with nice lacing and good head. Aroma was sweet, reminded me of peaches, yeast and some spices. Flavors were yeast, sea salt, dried apricots and slightly sour (very slightly) with a bit of a heavy-handed alcoholic bite to it. Good stuff.

UPDATED: FEB 4, 2006 Pours orange with a fully receding white head. Aroma of apples, banana, cotton candy, spicy clove, and alcohol. Taste is quite spicy, fruity, and alcoholic with notes of honey. Not much to be said from the hops and malt, thus the alcohol is not well hidden. The alcohol meshes well with the intense phenols.

Sampled at Stone 9th Ann. party. Maybe I like tripels more than I think. I had a few today, and they were all pretty good. Fruity nose, and spicy flavor. Dry finish. Not too bad really.

Very nice aroma of candy and banana. Typical cloudy, pale-yellow color, but poured to a surprisingly slight head. While the flavor was the expected crisp, spicy fruitiness, there was a disappointing lack of carbonation.

Pours a darker amber body - cloudy, no head. Aroma is spicy, yeasty, and sugary with hints of banana and citrus. Flavor is dominated by a yeasty sweetness. Pretty smooth for 9%. Enough complexity to keep me interested, despite a yeasty dominance.