Triumph Vienna Lager

Brewed by Triumph Brewing Company
Style: Amber Lager/Vienna
Princeton, New Jersey USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Brown color with a slightly sweet and grainy aroma. Flavor is a bit fruity with cereal and medium colored wheat bread throughout. Not bad.

Tap at Philly location. Aroma quite fruity with peaches, berries, lemon yogurt. Flavor starts with these fruits and moves to a grapey, malty, toasty, caramel-y feel. Finish is at first a touch astringent, but then becomes quite sweet, too sweet in my opinion. An interesting effort at a Vienna with all the unusual fruity notes, but at the end of the day, the sweetness pulled it down for me. Looks like this was much better a couple years ago.

Heavy malt flavor. Moderately hoppy, and purfumed with a lime scent. Sweat scented yeat flavors, barnyard, dust, cheese and mold - not attractive aromas really. Smoke flavor throughout. Solvent tinge, sour milk, and skunk. This may be by design, but not entirely enjoyable. medium orange red body with a small fully diminishing off white head. Fair lacing, and clear, flat body Lightly acidic, bitter, and sweet and sour. Finish is average. Not the best from Triumph - off, sour, and interesting, but not very delicious.

Poured dark golden with a thin white head. The head was short lasting. Aroma was bready and fruity. A little weak. Solid malty taste. Certainly a descent session beer.

Draft. Pours a copper body with a white head. Stinky grain y apples tones, malty body thin and sweet with a lightly bitter finish. I remember at the time thinking this was a better version of yuengling despite their difference in styles. Okay.

Man, me and Gene do it again back to back. I thought the taste was lacking something. Maybe not sweet enough. A little bland, a normal lager that was a little harsh.

Draft at the Princeton Location. Clear deep golden beer, no head, no lace. Nice example of the style: clean full malt flavor and body - lager style; easy on the hops, great carbonation. Well-made, however, this style just doesn’t have enough character for my taste.

Looks like water from a rusty bucket. Slightly toasty, slightly sweet aroma - all malt. Medium sweet, medium bittering. A little too bocky for my taste. Burnt toast aftertaste hangs around a little too long. Not bad, but not my style.

Draft at New Hope location. No Sir I didn’t really care for this one. Poured a clear orange/amber with a small white head. Aroma is very grainy with some sweetness from amber malts. Thinner body with overly aggressive carbonation. Flavor reminds me of stale bread. Oh well I guess they all can’t be Oatmeal Cookie Stouts.

12.22.04 Princeton. Dark gold pour, slight ring of foam lingers. Bready aromas, other sweetness, pepper. Lagery flavors that I don’t like and plenty of malts like malted white flour. Seems like a missed opportunity to fill a tap with this during the winter beer season.