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Tripel Reserve
Night Shift Brewing
- From:
- Night Shift Brewing
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Tripel
- ABV:
- 8.7%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 9.8%
- Reviews:
- 9
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 18, 2016
- Added:
- May 29, 2013
- Wants:
- 6
- Gots:
- 6
Tripel brewed with pinot gris grape juice, aged in chardonnay barrels
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Reviewed by UCLABrewN84 from California
3.84/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Thanks to queens1130 for sharing this one at mrbubbler's tasting.
Bottled: 11/10/14.
Pours a murky orange-brown with a foamy bone head that settles to wisps of film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace form drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell is sour with grain, white grape, acidic, white wine, and wood aromas. Taste is much the same with slightly sour white grape, white wine, and acidic flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of acidity on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer that is tasty, but the sour characteristics come through much better in the smell.
Serving type: bottle.
Jun 02, 2015Bottled: 11/10/14.
Pours a murky orange-brown with a foamy bone head that settles to wisps of film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace form drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell is sour with grain, white grape, acidic, white wine, and wood aromas. Taste is much the same with slightly sour white grape, white wine, and acidic flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of acidity on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer that is tasty, but the sour characteristics come through much better in the smell.
Serving type: bottle.
Reviewed by jbertsch from Massachusetts
3.33/5 rDev -16.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
3.33/5 rDev -16.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Doesn't taste, look, or feel like a proper tripel. Although I don't expect Night Shift beers to really follow textbook guidelines...i expect creativity and that's what I got. Smells and tastes tart with notes of oak, general woodsiness, white grape and even a little tangerine. A touch musty. Not a bad beer, enjoyable enough, just know going into it it will not taste like a true tripel.
May 24, 2015Reviewed by SpeedwayJim from New York
3.66/5 rDev -8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.66/5 rDev -8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
750ml capped bottle into Tired Hands stemware. Shared with schen9303.
Pours 2 layers of course white bubbles with poor retention. Beer is a clear golden copper. Lacing is spotty and sparse with little stick. Not really much to look at.
Nose is Brett, pineapple, starfruit, citrus, and cane sugar. Mildly aromatic but pretty enticing.
Opens sweet and funky. Notes of grape must, Brett, wood, Belgian yeast florals and cane sugar sweetness. A light bit of grape tartness in the middle complemented by more Brett and yeast. Ends sweet and dry with hints of wood, plastic, and grape skin. Lightly tart aftertaste. The flavors are nice but they don't complement each other well here.
Medium bodied with ample carbonation. Prickly and lively in the mouth and goes down dry and puckering. Finishes dry with a filmy, sticky aftertaste. Really good.
Not every offering from a brewery can be a winner and this one is kind of a dud. Brett + wine makes for a wonderful combination but the body and flavor profile of the tripel just doesn't go with what else is going on.
Dec 30, 2014Pours 2 layers of course white bubbles with poor retention. Beer is a clear golden copper. Lacing is spotty and sparse with little stick. Not really much to look at.
Nose is Brett, pineapple, starfruit, citrus, and cane sugar. Mildly aromatic but pretty enticing.
Opens sweet and funky. Notes of grape must, Brett, wood, Belgian yeast florals and cane sugar sweetness. A light bit of grape tartness in the middle complemented by more Brett and yeast. Ends sweet and dry with hints of wood, plastic, and grape skin. Lightly tart aftertaste. The flavors are nice but they don't complement each other well here.
Medium bodied with ample carbonation. Prickly and lively in the mouth and goes down dry and puckering. Finishes dry with a filmy, sticky aftertaste. Really good.
Not every offering from a brewery can be a winner and this one is kind of a dud. Brett + wine makes for a wonderful combination but the body and flavor profile of the tripel just doesn't go with what else is going on.
Tripel Reserve from Night Shift Brewing
Beer rating:
89 out of
100 with
66 ratings
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