Brooding Soldier Tripel
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Oliver Square

Brooding Soldier TripelBrooding Soldier Tripel
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From:
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Oliver Square
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
Tripel
ABV:
8.5%
Score:
86
Avg:
3.8 | pDev: 4.47%
Reviews:
4
Ratings:
10
Status:
Active
Rated:
May 23, 2016
Added:
Dec 21, 2014
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Ratings by andrenaline:
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Reviewed by andrenaline from Canada (ON)

3.99/5  rDev +5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Props to joemcgrath27 for the score. Nose is mild, dark fruit, raisins and plums. Flavors are much like the nose with the dark fruits dominating the palette, sweetness is subdued, making it quite sessionable given the high ABV. A solid triple and would be a tasty go-to at the brewpub.
Jul 26, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.9 by Corson from Canada (AB)

May 23, 2016
 
Rated: 3.94 by joemcgrath27 from Canada (AB)

May 01, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by Howlader from Canada (AB)

Apr 14, 2015
 
 
Rated: 3.87 by Sathanas from Canada (AB)

Feb 26, 2015
 
Rated: 3.9 by artemh from Canada (AB)

Feb 01, 2015
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Reviewed by CalgaryFMC from Canada (AB)

3.78/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Single bottle poured into a snifter. This name was previously used for a Belgian pale ale served at the brewpubs. Re-branded here as a winter bottled offering.

Pours a hazy orange amber with three fingers of creamy tightly packed small bubbles. Looks the part.

Aroma is medicinal, fruity, sweet, slightly doughy malts. Big banana and medium clove nose, orchard fruits, slight earthy funk. Less pungent than some but again true to style.

Palate is at once fruity, spicy, herbal, and classically Belgian. I find this on the sweet and thick side for a tripel but this is not an undesirable trait. Some donut-like malts in the background, with orange, licorice, pear, banana, and dusty cloves up front. The alcohol is well-concealed for a tripel!

Body on the thick side of moderate in my estimation, with low key carbonation. Finishes semi-dry and yeasty, with some gooseberry hop notes detectable. Not too shabby and a great introduction to the style for those who might be dissuaded by the robust booziness typically evidenced therein.
Jan 12, 2015
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Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)

3.46/5  rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
One of Brewsters new single winter offerings here in Cowtown.

Appearance - Pours a warm amber with two fingers of bubbly white head.

Smell - belgian yeast (clove, hint of banana), pear, apple, spicy hops, sweet caramel malts, and booze.

Taste - Belgian yeast (clove, hint of banana), hint of pear and apple then mostly dominated by the sweet caramel malts. The hint of spicy hops and booze round out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes a tad on the sweet side with a hint of the belgian yeast.

Overall - Good on Brewsters for brewing this type of style. I found the the sweetness took over in this one and was hoping for more of the belgian yeast and spicy hops to shine through. Some minor tweaks would make that happen.
Jan 02, 2015
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.82/5  rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
355ml bottle, a recent up-take by this brew-pub chain.

This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium golden yellow hue, with two chubby fingers of puffy, tightly foamy, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent fire lick lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of bready, crackery pale malt, cold banana peel, subtle earthy yeast, boozy red apples, and some weak Poire Williams notes. The taste is gritty, grainy pale malt, edgy muddled drupe fruit, indistinct savoury spice, a still tame yeastiness, and an equally sedate, but at times bristling, metallic alcohol measure.

The carbonation is fairly involved, and pert once in a while, but generally agreeable in its basic frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and actually smooth, the yeast and alcohol gift-wrapping it this time. It finishes off-dry, the malt graininess, understated fruitiness, and mannerly booze colliding just so.

I know Tripels are typically replete with the big ABV, but that doesn't mean that they necessarily have to flaunt it, a lesson illustrated here, for the better. Well-made, the expected flavours are all there, and the alcohol is pleasantly integrated. A wise choice to release alongside the barleywine as singles for the winter months around here, I'd have to say.
Dec 27, 2014
Brooding Soldier Tripel from Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Oliver Square
Beer rating: 86 out of 100 with 10 ratings