Wrecking Bar Chardonnay Barrel Aged Spring Break TRIPel

Brewed by Wrecking Bar Brewpub
Style: Abbey Tripel
Atlanta, Georgia USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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(Draught) Pours a hazy golden body with a small off-white head. Aroma of pine, chardonnay, oak, and grass. Flavor of yeast, chardonnay grapes, florals, pine, and light citrus.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a hazy burnt orange witha peach hue and a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces. Aroma has sweet grains and light fruit up front with a rich backing dry chardonnay note. Flavor begins with some dry Chardonnay that lasts throughout with a bit of light fruit and flora that come out in the finish.

Name: Spring Break TRIPel, Chardonnay
Date: June 16, 2012
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: opaque orange, fine off white head
Aroma: sweet malt aroma, lots of phenols that are accentuated by the barrel fruity spicyness
Flavor: sweet fruity flavor, lots of spicyness from the yeast and the barrel, winey sweetness enhances fruity esters of the base beer, spicy bitter finish
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4