Saint Jaggery
Ten Ninety Brewing Company

Built in the Tripel Belgian style, Ten Ninety uses Indian Palm Sugar not to make the beer sweeter but to increase dryness and palatability in a strong, spicy and fruity style.

Saint Jaggery kicks off with a burnish gold and lightly turbulent pour. As its frothy cap rises and soon falls, a spicy scent of strong white wine and a twinge of peppery vodka wrapped in a sweet stone fruit and cidery fruitiness. A sweeter coat of malt then shares the taste of corn syrups, light brown sugar and honey.

Then the middle palate shows a bold fruit display of plum, date, cherry, red grape, apple and fig- all seeming in the dried fruit and bruised fruit families. Seeming slightly grappa or brandy-like, a spicier balance of peppercorn, vinous spice and a piquant bitterness of medicinal quality for balance.

Full bodied and finishing both spicy and sweet, Saint Jaggery misses its mark on the Tripel style with a yeast fruit, spice, effervescence and dryness profile that far too simplistic. Its heavy mouthfeel pushes this eleven percenter of a beer past the point of drinkability as it is too sweet, sugary and weighted to compare favorably with more traditional varieties.