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Port Jeff Brewing Company
- From:
- Port Jeff Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Tripel
- ABV:
- 10.1%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 13.94%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 14
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 26, 2019
- Added:
- Jul 10, 2012
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 17
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
Traditional Belgian trippel with Trappist ale yeast
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Reviewed by ScruffySouthpaw from New York
3.58/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.58/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Served in a tulip from the can.
Appearance: Comes off a semi hazy gold color with meidum bubbles. Head isn't super thick like most trippels but did initially rise just a notch over a finger's length.
Smell: Has a yeasty scent, feels like a bit of lemon zest as well but not too potent and wish it was a touch more appetizing.
Taste: Sour and bitter with a touch sweetness which is mixed with grapefruit and bread.
Mouth: Sticky sticky beer and easily the best property, medium to full carbonation with touch of banana finish.
Overall: Descent beer, have had better trippels on the market but for the price and easy availability here in NY why not. Always in a glass...Salud!
Apr 09, 2019Appearance: Comes off a semi hazy gold color with meidum bubbles. Head isn't super thick like most trippels but did initially rise just a notch over a finger's length.
Smell: Has a yeasty scent, feels like a bit of lemon zest as well but not too potent and wish it was a touch more appetizing.
Taste: Sour and bitter with a touch sweetness which is mixed with grapefruit and bread.
Mouth: Sticky sticky beer and easily the best property, medium to full carbonation with touch of banana finish.
Overall: Descent beer, have had better trippels on the market but for the price and easy availability here in NY why not. Always in a glass...Salud!
Reviewed by mikeg67 from New Jersey
3.59/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.59/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
16 oz can. Pours hazy golden with tall, long-lasting, foamy white head and nice lacing. Aroma is of funky yeast, pale malt, spices and ripe fruit. Body is medium and smooth. Taste is of spices, herbal hops, yeast, ripe fruit and bready malt. Finish is long and spicy. Good brew.
Jun 15, 2018
Rated by adhuntr from New York
4.74/5 rDev +27.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.74/5 rDev +27.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Fantastic Belgian. Beautiful color, great smell, rich and complex flavors. Despite being strong at 10% abv, it's not too alcohol-y.
Aug 07, 2016
Reviewed by patboy29 from New York
2.13/5 rDev -42.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.25
2.13/5 rDev -42.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.25
Beer poured a beautiful golden color just a little bit hazy. Aroma was a a little spivey and yeasty. Fast was not good. There was a strange saisonish funk that just does not belong in a triple. It was cloyingly sweet. Mouth feel was good, a lot of residual sugars still floating around evidently. This is a poor representation of a triple.
Jul 13, 2016
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.47/5 rDev +19.8%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.47/5 rDev +19.8%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
As a retired U.S. Navy sailor, I truly miss getting underway. I mentioned this to a buddy on Veterans Day & he suggested riding ferries as a way to get water under my feet again! What a great idea! I took Amtrak to Penn Station (NYP), transferred to the LIRR, rode out to Port Jefferson, NY and took the ferry across Long Island Sound to Bridgeport, CT to watch back-to-back nights of AHL hockey before coming home. I also scored some CANs of beer for The CANQuest (tm) while I was at it.
From the CAN: "1. Long Day 2. New Job 3. Train Ride 4. Pre-Game 5. Yard Work 6. Game's On 7. Won Bet 8. Lost Bet 9. Didn't Bet 10. Nerves 11. New Kid 12. Not My Kid 13. Bamping 14. Last Call 15. Got Fired 16. Holidays The Original Dropper"; "Small Batch - Big Taste".
A 16-fl. oz. tallboy CAN sits before me like a challenge, as though The CANQuest (tm) has not tackled its ilk in the past. I Crack!ed it open with little resistance, but given that it is a "Belgian Style Ale", the likelihood of lees was high. Having readied my Belgian glass, I CANmenced a VERY gentle Glug, but the rising head caused me to back off of even that. It resulted in a finger of dense, firm, French Vanilla-colored head with such wonderful retention that I thought back to the making of meringue. In high school, I discovered the magic of HomeEc & was even CANtemplating becoming a pastry chef until I joined the U.S. Navy. One of my highest hurdles was meringue, but once I perfected it, I was putting meringue on everything! Even after all of that typing, the head has not moved! Color was Amber to Deep Amber/Light Copper (SRM = > 9, < 13) with NE-quality clarity. Nose was at once spicy & musty, like old newspapers from the attic liberally sprinkled with black pepper. Mmmm. Mouthfeel was full & creamy & I closed my eyes & envisioned an N2 dispenser inside of the CAN. The taste was an interesting amalgam of black pepper, banana, clove, old newspaper and a slight tartness. It was an iron fist wrapped in velvet, entering like a Trojan Horse, quietly, calmly & then letting loose like a runaway freight train! Suddenly, I could no longer focus my eyes. It was like liquid self-trephination! Gabba gabba hey! I'm a middle-aged lobotomy! Finish was so gaspingly dry that I could not help but take another sip, but with each one, I was rendered into more and more of a pinhead. The papery pepperiness was utterly breathtaking! Did I just sniff some glue? More, please!
Mar 24, 2016From the CAN: "1. Long Day 2. New Job 3. Train Ride 4. Pre-Game 5. Yard Work 6. Game's On 7. Won Bet 8. Lost Bet 9. Didn't Bet 10. Nerves 11. New Kid 12. Not My Kid 13. Bamping 14. Last Call 15. Got Fired 16. Holidays The Original Dropper"; "Small Batch - Big Taste".
A 16-fl. oz. tallboy CAN sits before me like a challenge, as though The CANQuest (tm) has not tackled its ilk in the past. I Crack!ed it open with little resistance, but given that it is a "Belgian Style Ale", the likelihood of lees was high. Having readied my Belgian glass, I CANmenced a VERY gentle Glug, but the rising head caused me to back off of even that. It resulted in a finger of dense, firm, French Vanilla-colored head with such wonderful retention that I thought back to the making of meringue. In high school, I discovered the magic of HomeEc & was even CANtemplating becoming a pastry chef until I joined the U.S. Navy. One of my highest hurdles was meringue, but once I perfected it, I was putting meringue on everything! Even after all of that typing, the head has not moved! Color was Amber to Deep Amber/Light Copper (SRM = > 9, < 13) with NE-quality clarity. Nose was at once spicy & musty, like old newspapers from the attic liberally sprinkled with black pepper. Mmmm. Mouthfeel was full & creamy & I closed my eyes & envisioned an N2 dispenser inside of the CAN. The taste was an interesting amalgam of black pepper, banana, clove, old newspaper and a slight tartness. It was an iron fist wrapped in velvet, entering like a Trojan Horse, quietly, calmly & then letting loose like a runaway freight train! Suddenly, I could no longer focus my eyes. It was like liquid self-trephination! Gabba gabba hey! I'm a middle-aged lobotomy! Finish was so gaspingly dry that I could not help but take another sip, but with each one, I was rendered into more and more of a pinhead. The papery pepperiness was utterly breathtaking! Did I just sniff some glue? More, please!
Reviewed by EMH73 from New York
3.43/5 rDev -8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.43/5 rDev -8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
A bit misleading in that it called itself a Belgian style ale. The beer was very sweet with notes of spice. Not very well balanced in my opinion, lacking in hops flavor. There are a lot better than this out there.
Jan 01, 2016
Rated by KINGRIKER1 from New York
4.57/5 rDev +22.5%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 5
4.57/5 rDev +22.5%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 5
Great trippel
Oct 27, 2015
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