Tiger Tripel
Nøgne Ø

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From:
Nøgne Ø
 
Norway
Style:
Tripel
Ranked #173
ABV:
9%
Score:
86
Ranked #19,435
Avg:
3.81 | pDev: 10.5%
Reviews:
75
Ratings:
178
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jan 29, 2024
Added:
Oct 15, 2009
Wants:
  5
Gots:
  9
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Ratings by biboergosum:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.63/5  rDev -4.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
500ml bottle. How do we make our mark on this venerable style? Why, take something fully foreign, and just toss it right in there. Sigh.

This beer pours a hazy, murky medium golden straw hue, with two fingers of loosely foamy, bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a low-lying, seemingly undulating vista of wavecrest lace around the glass as it duly evaporates. Kind of weird not to have to clean up overflow on the counter from an overly aggressive head.

It smells of mildly peaty smoke, brine, semi-sweet pale malt, acrid yeast, a middling pome fruitiness, some suppressed candi sugar, and a bit of witbier spiciness. The taste is more thankfully restrained phenolic, forlorn Scottish isle medicinal peatiness, tacked on, rather than deftly blended, to a yeasty, sugary pale Belgian maltiness, with a white pepper and blotted coriander spiciness standing by in the wings.

The bubbles are pretty laid back, like a lolling Lowlands brae (keeping with the theme here), the body an indistinct medium weight, and actually rather smooth, the Island effect choosing to fully cease operations here and now, as a slight creaminess burgeons.

Thankful am I to Nøgne Ø's acquiescence in keeping this particular Scottish malt mostly on the down-low, as eventually the standard Tripel offerings come bleeding through. I know they lie just across the North Sea from Scotland proper, but this just feels like they had a bit of Islay malt left over from that mindfuck of a brew called Sunturnbrew, and had to find a use for it. Unnecessary, when the underlying Tripel may be (we shall never know now, with this one) well worthy all on its own.
Apr 30, 2013
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.45 by Supper1

Jan 29, 2024
 
Rated: 3.94 by steverx8 from England

Nov 28, 2021
 
Rated: 4.22 by Abstractspirit from Rhode Island

May 29, 2019
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Rated by sunsjammer from Arizona

4.04/5  rDev +6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
1 pint 9 oz bottle from Craft Beer Quik Stop. Undated.
Jan 12, 2019
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Reviewed by mntlover from Tennessee

3.51/5  rDev -7.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
Pours a nice cloudy bright golden color with a finger sized white head that laces well enough.

Aroma is bready malts lightly sweet with spicy yeast notes dominating. Light fruit notes not as fruity as most Tripels at least as far as I remember, Some alcohol and spices mingling through out also.

Taste is like the nose big malty can taste the sweetness from candi sugars along with spicy yeast notes mingled around. Some lighter fruity esters but they are over shadowed by the malt, sugars and spicy yeasts along with alcohol hints. Eh not your typical Belgian Style Tripel.

Mouthfeel is medium with lightly peppy carbonation.

Overall eh, kind of disappointed in this one, taste isn't really bad just could use more fruit notes in my opinion.
Aug 18, 2018
 
Rated: 3.88 by Baviera from Belarus

Aug 03, 2018
 
Rated: 3.97 by BirdsandHops from Oregon

Sep 10, 2017
 
Rated: 3.24 by RochefortChris from North Carolina

Sep 03, 2017
 
Rated: 3.52 by mltobin from Connecticut

Aug 20, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by Dirtyhands from Maryland

Aug 10, 2017
 
Rated: 3.44 by dsshuck from Delaware

Jun 16, 2017
 
Rated: 4.25 by Zach136 from Georgia

Apr 23, 2017
 
Rated: 3.77 by justinm4bama from Alabama

Sep 28, 2016
 
Rated: 3.78 by pisano from Massachusetts

Sep 02, 2016
 
Rated: 3.61 by KensWorld from Florida

Sep 01, 2016
 
Rated: 3.34 by DioS from Georgia

Aug 26, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by deac83 from Texas

Jul 30, 2016
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Reviewed by Dzu from Russian Federation

3.98/5  rDev +4.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Poured into snifter.
L: Dark turbid copper with a medium foam head.
S: Weak aroma , with citrus and belgian yeasts.
T: Mild milky taste with notes of citrus.
F: Nice body with medium carbonation.
O: Someting lacks in this triple. May be some spices may be more tartness.
Jul 28, 2016
 
Rated: 3.85 by Electros from Canada (ON)

Jul 15, 2016
Tiger Tripel from Nøgne Ø
Beer rating: 86 out of 100 with 178 ratings