Triceratops Tripel
Beau's All Natural Brewing Company

Straw color. Good Belgian yeast aroma and some lavender comes thru but the lavender flavor is distinct in flavor. Balances the big mouthfeel. I like it.

 

lcbo summerhill tap takeover. bubble gum aroma and abc gum flavour. rough finish. yellow body. not too drinkable.

600ml bottle - just watched some weird Lego dinosaur cartoons with my pre-schooler earlier today, so this fits right in with my existence, as it were. Strange label imagery for a beer with such a name, I might add.

This beer pours a hazy, yet bright pale golden yellow colour, with one finger of puffy, rather loosely foamy, and well-bubbly off-white head, which leaves a few instances of minor ocean plume lace around the glass as things quickly blow off.

It smells of some weirdly estery florals (almost soapy), slightly phenolic dead yeast, gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser edgy cereal wheatiness, and a further musty, herbal, and spicy forest floor character that is not particularly hop-like. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some tame mirror-world organic (apple, orange, and tropical) fruity bullshit, lavender soap, simple syrup, and more herbal, leafy, and weedy, um 'hoppy' bitterness.

The carbonation is fairly robust in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a decent enough medium weight, and mostly smooth, with a wee airy creaminess contending with those Druid-friendly botanicals swarming about. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt holding fast, while the indistinct fruitiness and still weird floral/musky character continue to search for a place actually happen.

Overall, it would be difficult to ascertain this one's style without being told, as such, due to this brewery's propensity to dial back the beer clock a number of centuries or so. Sure, it's boozy and sweet, but those additional non-hoppy esters go the extra mile in fucking with my better beer senses, which I suppose is actually OK, once I wrap my fool head around it. Yeah.