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Twenty Knots Belgian Style Tripel Ale
Alewerks Brewing Company
- From:
- Alewerks Brewing Company
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- Tripel
Ranked #140 - ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- 87
Ranked #17,228 - Avg:
- 3.86 | pDev: 10.62%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 16, 2023
- Added:
- Apr 04, 2013
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 14
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Rated by RevCityVA from Virginia
4.9/5 rDev +26.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.9/5 rDev +26.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Medium body, with delightful, smoothly subtle fruit notes. Incredible tasting Tripel !!
Jan 01, 2017Reviewed by GarthDanielson from Virginia
3.92/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured from a cork and cage into a tulip, the beer is a bright, slightly hazy, copper-caramel coloring with a halo of white, filmy head. Aromas of bubble gum, apple, caramel, banana, vanilla, berry sweetness, and a subtle spice blend of clove and nutmeg. Flavors are fruity sweet and rich forward, with notes of apple, banana, apricot, and berries riding on a rich, bready, vanilla and caramel backbone. Richly sweet overall, but balanced. Subtle spice notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar all help to highlight and balance the rich overtones. The body is smooth, robust, and full, with a candi like sweetness in the aftertaste, accompanied by fruity esters and a bready backbone. The finish is slick, smooth, and slightly cloying. Good beer.
Aug 25, 2015Reviewed by HattedClassic from Virginia
3.88/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
The beer pours very little head. The beer itself is a very nice amber color that hovers between light and medium, but leans more towards the medium part of it. The beer color is pretty nice to look at even though it's a bit darker than a traditional tripel.
The beer smell is absolutely fantastic. The beer has some very tropical notes that comes off as pineapple with a bit of light hop bitterness. The Belgian sugar really comes out and there seems to be a bit of a boozy note too. Also, the yeast's fruity note is pretty strong.
The beer taste is very similar to the smell. The beer has a very tropical taste to it that reminds me of pineapples and mangos. The taste has a light hop bitterness to it. The Belgian sugar is fairly strong in the taste and that hurts it a little bit. Also, there seems to be a slight alcohol note present through the entire thing that detracts from the overall taste.
The mouthfeel is fairly smooth and surprisingly light. The biting carbonation is also nice and makes the beer feel even lighter while adding some texture.
Overall, a pretty good tripel and one worth trying but you won't be missing anything super good if you don't.
Jul 16, 2015The beer smell is absolutely fantastic. The beer has some very tropical notes that comes off as pineapple with a bit of light hop bitterness. The Belgian sugar really comes out and there seems to be a bit of a boozy note too. Also, the yeast's fruity note is pretty strong.
The beer taste is very similar to the smell. The beer has a very tropical taste to it that reminds me of pineapples and mangos. The taste has a light hop bitterness to it. The Belgian sugar is fairly strong in the taste and that hurts it a little bit. Also, there seems to be a slight alcohol note present through the entire thing that detracts from the overall taste.
The mouthfeel is fairly smooth and surprisingly light. The biting carbonation is also nice and makes the beer feel even lighter while adding some texture.
Overall, a pretty good tripel and one worth trying but you won't be missing anything super good if you don't.
Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia
3.73/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
On tap (revisit of a bottle in Sept, 2015):
Pours an fairly hazy yellow-orange. Head is creamy white, thick at the edges with wisps on the surface. This pour was to the top, so couldn't tell volume of head.
Nose is a tad hard to detect, do get some banana, pear, and maybe peach esters. Also get impression of pineapple in some whiffs. Hard to be confident with the exact fruits, but the beer has sweet fruity notes mainly, and these are what I detect. Revisit: Definitely fruity in nature, even get a little coconut, strangely.
Taste isn't unexpected from the nose. What is a bit surprising is the level of sweetness in this beer. Banana, pear, red delicious apple - all with a candied nature to them. There is an orange rind and farmhouse earthy taste that comes on after the initial malt blast, but it never takes hold. The end brings back the pulp fruit tastes of apple and the lightest bite of spice. Revisit is very similar, but a little wood, cedar-ish, and that coconut again.
Carbonation is good, but the sweetness gives a bit of coating feel to counter that pretty well.
Some nice flavor behind the sweetness, but you have to get over it. It's not really a sugar bomb as much as a sweet fruit forward beer. It mellowed a tad with some warmth, but not that much.
Revisit: definitely a sweeter beer, but an interesting one. Go in forewarned and expecting it, and judge from there forward.
Jun 02, 2015Pours an fairly hazy yellow-orange. Head is creamy white, thick at the edges with wisps on the surface. This pour was to the top, so couldn't tell volume of head.
Nose is a tad hard to detect, do get some banana, pear, and maybe peach esters. Also get impression of pineapple in some whiffs. Hard to be confident with the exact fruits, but the beer has sweet fruity notes mainly, and these are what I detect. Revisit: Definitely fruity in nature, even get a little coconut, strangely.
Taste isn't unexpected from the nose. What is a bit surprising is the level of sweetness in this beer. Banana, pear, red delicious apple - all with a candied nature to them. There is an orange rind and farmhouse earthy taste that comes on after the initial malt blast, but it never takes hold. The end brings back the pulp fruit tastes of apple and the lightest bite of spice. Revisit is very similar, but a little wood, cedar-ish, and that coconut again.
Carbonation is good, but the sweetness gives a bit of coating feel to counter that pretty well.
Some nice flavor behind the sweetness, but you have to get over it. It's not really a sugar bomb as much as a sweet fruit forward beer. It mellowed a tad with some warmth, but not that much.
Revisit: definitely a sweeter beer, but an interesting one. Go in forewarned and expecting it, and judge from there forward.
Twenty Knots Belgian Style Tripel Ale from Alewerks Brewing Company
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
79 ratings
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