Stillpoint Reserve Series: Tripel
Milkhouse Brewery

 

Poured from the bottle into a tulip glass. Batch No. 10, Bottled May 4th 2017.

Clear out of the big bottle, Hitting with a good brass mix of yellow and more leaning orange body color. Carbonation takes place all around, slow streams, but very little head creation. Two fingers, a simple white in color and creamy in consistency. Settles to a good bowled thin puck though and keeps a good presence.

Tripel aroma on this guy angles on very good fruit and light honey tones. Good almost tangy pear like quality, quite juicy almost like an American tropical hop variety weirdly. Lots of spice clove and phenols but controlled, gets almost a cinnamon hotness to it also.

Palate plays nicely. Very noticeable spicy phenols, almost a mixing hop like bitterness to them. Airy and thick spicy qualities in the mid palate, with controlled boozy heat. Fruit quality is a little more subdued but with a good solid malt presence, chewy, and almost creamy texture. Aftertaste has more hot cinnamon breath, almost punches of mint as well.

A pretty unique tasting tripel, but a little unexpected, somewhat jarring but with some unique qualities to style.