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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:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 29, 2024
- Added:
- Oct 15, 2009
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 9
No description / notes.
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Ratings by biboergosum:
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
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, 2013This 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.
More User Ratings:
Rated by sunsjammer from Arizona
4.04/5 rDev +6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
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, 2019Reviewed by mntlover from Tennessee
3.51/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
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, 2018Aroma 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.
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
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, 2016L: 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.
Tiger Tripel from Nøgne Ø
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
178 ratings
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