Bolg Belgian Tripel (Hobbit Series)
Central City Brewers + Distillers
- From:
- Central City Brewers + Distillers
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Tripel
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 8.01%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 23, 2015
- Added:
- Jan 02, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.5/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Pours a hazy straw gold with three fingers of frothy white head.
Smell - Belgian yeast (clove, banana), spicy hops, hint of pepperiness, citrus (orange), bready caramel malts.
Taste - Belgian yeast (clove, banana) followed by the spicy hops, pepperiness, bready caramalts, and citrus (orange)
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes dry with a light lingering belgian yeast.
Overall - A triple with the elements in place. I wish the belgian yeast was a little more predominate especially in the mouthfeel as it lacked in that department. Other than that, a enjoyable enough rendition of the style.
Feb 15, 2015Smell - Belgian yeast (clove, banana), spicy hops, hint of pepperiness, citrus (orange), bready caramel malts.
Taste - Belgian yeast (clove, banana) followed by the spicy hops, pepperiness, bready caramalts, and citrus (orange)
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes dry with a light lingering belgian yeast.
Overall - A triple with the elements in place. I wish the belgian yeast was a little more predominate especially in the mouthfeel as it lacked in that department. Other than that, a enjoyable enough rendition of the style.
Reviewed by King-Ding-A-Ling from Canada ()
2.99/5 rDev -17.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2.99/5 rDev -17.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Look:
Clear Golden appearance, with slightly creamy slightly frothy head with moderate retention
Smell:
not overly intense. Got the tyipical clove and bubble gummy esters from the yeasts and a sweet malt smell. Couldnt pick out any hop expression
Taste:
The alcohol is heavy as expected. Fairy sweet, with chemical/tar flavor. Finish was soft with a little bit of a hop finish
Feel:
medium body, sugars coat the mouth. Carbonation is low. Slight Drying finish
Overall:
I am not to savvy with Tripels, but from what i know i find this to be a poor example. Wouldnt try this one again.
Feb 06, 2015Clear Golden appearance, with slightly creamy slightly frothy head with moderate retention
Smell:
not overly intense. Got the tyipical clove and bubble gummy esters from the yeasts and a sweet malt smell. Couldnt pick out any hop expression
Taste:
The alcohol is heavy as expected. Fairy sweet, with chemical/tar flavor. Finish was soft with a little bit of a hop finish
Feel:
medium body, sugars coat the mouth. Carbonation is low. Slight Drying finish
Overall:
I am not to savvy with Tripels, but from what i know i find this to be a poor example. Wouldnt try this one again.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, at 9.5% ABV (reading labels, is like, so hard, eh?) - not familiar with this particular Orc from the Tolkien canon - maybe a rewatching of the trilogy from damned-near 15 years ago is in order for me. "Belgian"-style Tripel - are there really others?
This beer pours a clear, very bright medium golden yellow hue, with three fingers of puffy, bubbly, and sudsy off-white head, which leaves some random boiling sea lace around the glass as it eventually sinks away.
It smells of warm and toasty caramel malt, a further white bready graininess, apple liqueur, earthy yeast, more mildly astringent estery alcohol, and weak leafy, weedy hops. The taste is bready, doughy pale malt, a touch of further caramel/toffee sweetness, muddled drupe and darker black orchard fruits, white pepper, somewhat acrid yeast, and a sidling, barely bridled boozy measure.
The bubbles are fairly involved in their daring frothiness, the body a solid medium weight for the style, and tacitly smooth, the overall sugary character doing well by itself, but that sneaky-ass alcohol justifiably has a mind of its own. It all finishes on the sweet side, the bready, doughy, and caramel notes still pretty strong, the spice and yeastiness retreating, and the boozy-booze hovering, as always is the case in the realm of the Tripel.
Not a bad rendition of this heady and typically challenging BELGIAN style - sweet malt, middling spices, wan yeast, and a respectful enough big ABV. Not sure what this has to do with yer upper-echelon Orcs, other than the concept of generally unmasked strength - here, the victim is my seasoned internal organs, as it were.
Jan 16, 2015This beer pours a clear, very bright medium golden yellow hue, with three fingers of puffy, bubbly, and sudsy off-white head, which leaves some random boiling sea lace around the glass as it eventually sinks away.
It smells of warm and toasty caramel malt, a further white bready graininess, apple liqueur, earthy yeast, more mildly astringent estery alcohol, and weak leafy, weedy hops. The taste is bready, doughy pale malt, a touch of further caramel/toffee sweetness, muddled drupe and darker black orchard fruits, white pepper, somewhat acrid yeast, and a sidling, barely bridled boozy measure.
The bubbles are fairly involved in their daring frothiness, the body a solid medium weight for the style, and tacitly smooth, the overall sugary character doing well by itself, but that sneaky-ass alcohol justifiably has a mind of its own. It all finishes on the sweet side, the bready, doughy, and caramel notes still pretty strong, the spice and yeastiness retreating, and the boozy-booze hovering, as always is the case in the realm of the Tripel.
Not a bad rendition of this heady and typically challenging BELGIAN style - sweet malt, middling spices, wan yeast, and a respectful enough big ABV. Not sure what this has to do with yer upper-echelon Orcs, other than the concept of generally unmasked strength - here, the victim is my seasoned internal organs, as it were.
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