Green's Quest Tripel Blonde Ale
Green's Gluten Free Beers

Green's Quest Tripel Blonde AleGreen's Quest Tripel Blonde Ale
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From:
Green's Gluten Free Beers
 
England, United Kingdom
Style:
Tripel
Ranked #251
ABV:
8.5%
Score:
72
Ranked #27,832
Avg:
3.07 | pDev: 23.78%
Reviews:
84
Ratings:
135
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 03, 2024
Added:
Aug 21, 2007
Wants:
  4
Gots:
  8
Brewed and bottled in Lochristi, Gent, Belgium.
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Ratings by grahamboudreaux:
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Rated by grahamboudreaux from Tennessee

4/5  rDev +30.3%

Aug 08, 2013
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Rated: 3.5 by bigred89 from Maryland

Mar 03, 2024
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Reviewed by MonDak_Joe1953 from Minnesota

3.52/5  rDev +14.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
330ml can. Date stamp on bottom is '18/04/25; 10:29 L4 18/04/25; VF436'.
Mostly clear, deep gold colored body (similar to apple juice). No real head, but there is a persistent island and thin ring. Just a few tiny spots of lacing left behind.
Aroma of apple, pear, and something akin to a caramel malt.
Taste of sweet sorghum, grain and rice, apple, pear, and cooking spices. Spicy grains in the aftertaste.
Medium mouth feel. Clean finish, but also a nectar-like feel. Low level of carbonation.
Fermented millet, sorghum, and rice brew, with vague fruit and spices for flavors. Clean and thirst quenching. Higher ABV% is well hidden.
Nov 23, 2023
 
Rated: 3.05 by blissfulNemo from Michigan

Oct 16, 2023
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Reviewed by NeoClassicist from New York

3.83/5  rDev +24.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
A complication from surgery lead me to developing a gluten intolerance, with potential to go full on Celiac. After a decade of sampling hundreds of beers this was my first beer of any kind in several months.

I will never get back the flavor I missed, but here goes:

Poured a deep amber. I was hoping for a Sam Adams New World look, and this was not it. Looked more like a quad.

Smelled - malty? Maltesque? Caramel? Something in that neighborhood.

Taste - enough like a beer to feel nostalgic and appreciative. If this is as close as I can get I can live with that.

Feel - thinner than what I remember, not watery but the body isn't there.

It's hard to compare this to the real thing, but in my much narrower reality this gets fine marks and has the dubious distinction of being my new benchmark.
Jul 19, 2023
 
Rated: 3.62 by arini10 from Oregon

May 30, 2023
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Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas

3.93/5  rDev +28%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from a bottle into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a pale golden color with a tiny head of white foam. The head fades rather fast leaving a light level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is strong of a biscuit malt smell mixed with lots of orange and spice smells of clove and coriander. Along with these smells comes a little bit banana and a touch of grain and hay.
Taste – The taste starts out with a crisp cracker and biscuit malt flavor mixed with lots of sweeter peach and apricot flavors. At the same time there is a strong showing of white grape, bringing a slightly wine like taste to the brew. Other flavors of coriander and clove, and a bit of yeast are also present upfront, with all getting a bit stronger toward the end. At the end of the taste some wheat and grain, and a strong apple cider taste come to the tongue, leaving one with a nice and crisp, almost cider like-triple taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is light with a carbonation level that is rather high. For the crisp nature and fruit flavors the feel is great and makes for a very crisp sipper.
Overall – A nice and easy drinking triple with a sweet fruit flavor. Not a gluten free kind of guy, but this was still pretty good.
May 06, 2023
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Reviewed by Brutaltruth from Ohio

3.27/5  rDev +6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
From the 1 pt 9 fl oz brew in a snifter. This decent little brew pours a clear
golden with a modest head of white foam that settles to a thick ring, thin clumping
layer, and faint lacing. Nose of apple, faint pear, and spicy alcohol phenol. Flavors follow
the nose with spicy alcohol phenol notes, apple, pear, and under ripened peach with
a touch of clove. Mouth feel; is medium, light carbonation, goes down easy enough,
and finishes lightly sweet and moderately dry with spicy notes.

Overall, needs more depth. That said it is good for those with issues.

Cheers
May 06, 2023
 
Rated: 3.38 by Viaduck from California

Feb 23, 2023
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Rated by LukeGude from Iowa

3.25/5  rDev +5.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Bottle poured into glass at The Royal Mile. Didn’t realize it was GF. Good for GF, aka mediocre. But I do love a tripel, so happy to drink it.
Jan 08, 2023
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Reviewed by MikeWard from Pennsylvania

3.46/5  rDev +12.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
500ml bottle into a tulip. Best by 2/12/24. Plenty fresh.

Looks good in the glass. Hazy honey blonde body. Fluffy white head persists in good form throughout leaving scattered lacing.

Aroma is a little musty with a side of apple.

On tasting, it's very bitter and has some harsh spice notes. Sweetness tries to rise, but fails. A little apple gives it a faint cider-like taste.

Mouth full, finish an initial thick sweetness with quickly gets swallowed up by the dry harsh bitter/spice.

Overall, just too aggressive in the bitter and spice departments. For what it's worth, the abv is well hidden.
Aug 17, 2022
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Reviewed by jkblr from Indiana

3.66/5  rDev +19.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
500mL bottle bb 13/04/26 poured into a chalice at 44° Fahrenheit 8.5% ABV. Bottle conditioned and made from buckwheat, millet, sorghum & brown rice. The beer pours mostly bright medium amber with off white head. The head recedes to a thin ring and single layer of varied sized bubbles. Sticky web-like lacing. The aroma is faint with a hint of clovey yeast and light "malt" sweetness. The taste is semisweet with orchard fruit, mild clove and earthy medium plus bitterness. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with lively, above average carbonation and a semi dry finish. No trace of the alcohol in the aroma or taste.
Mar 26, 2022
 
Rated: 3.29 by TMoney2591 from Illinois

Mar 02, 2022
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Reviewed by dacrza1 from New Jersey

2.78/5  rDev -9.4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
DATE: August 21, 2020... OCCASION: watching the awesome "G.I. Jeff" Community episode after finishing our front steps' landing and seeing the Cavs land the fifth overall pick (an actual gift)--it's indeed a good night! GLASSWARE: Affligem chalice... this pours a dark honey-colored, golden body that is mostly opaque... its head settles quickly into a creamy ring of bubbles and smears of swampiness... intense sorghum and millet greet the nostrils, with some funky yeast, apple, pear and vegetable matter, and rye bread... its palate is rather dry, save for its late-throat bubbling... puckerish at the start, but the hops are rather mellow... this warms at its finish... the flavor profile begins with pear, apple, prune, white grapes, millet, yeasty, bready and sharp, it doesn't quite gel as a tripel, creating too much bitterness for its usually palatable profile... its bite rankles the experience, though the alcohol does make this one of the stronger gluten-free beers I've come across...
Aug 22, 2020
 
Rated: 3.57 by RochefortChris from North Carolina

Jun 22, 2020
 
Rated: 3.18 by Tcsox from Massachusetts

Jun 13, 2020
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Reviewed by Lorenzo_H

1.06/5  rDev -65.5%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
I had read some positive reviews of this in my search for decent gluten free ales. However in all honesty I found that it felt thin, smelt and tasted sour and was actually virtually undrinkable. I have since found an extremely pleasant alternative, so I know that gluten free ale doesn't have to taste like this.
Jan 11, 2020
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Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois

3.62/5  rDev +17.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Anytime a brewer takes a difficult style and adds an even more difficult process (gluten free), then that beer deserves some love. Hence, my rating above the average.

The issue on this tripel is how does a Belgian yeast (designed mostly to stimulate barley and wheat) interact with other non-gluten grains. Because the yeast cannot adapt to foreign grains, the traditional fruits do not come out of this tripel.

There also is the issue of not needing as much brewers sugar because sorghum (possibly the largest grain on this bill) is used to brew syrup.

So, it all gets interesting when difficult gets piled on difficult. But Green’s is performing an important service to expand the beer market among gluten sensitive folks. And for that I rate this tripel above its average. Green’s and other brewers will learn.
Aug 18, 2019
 
Rated: 3.8 by Sarah_Bearah from California

Apr 05, 2019
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Reviewed by EMV from Pennsylvania

3.73/5  rDev +21.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a tall bottle into a Dogfish Head tulip

L: Clear golden pour with 2 fingers of foamy white head. Solid retention and great lacing.

S: Honey and sweet malts... mild spice and lemon.

T/F: Sweet and malty... follows the nose with lots of honey... mild spice and lemongrass. Not as yeasty/estery as a lot of tripel's and a bit too sweet, but very drinkable. ABV is well hidden. Light bodied... well carbonated. Sweet at the finish.

O: For a gluten free beer (a necessary caveat) this is a pretty solid tripel. Lots of honey sweetness and malts... could use more complexity but for what it is a pretty damned good beer. Celiacs rejoice!
Jul 10, 2018
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Beer rating: 72 out of 100 with 135 ratings