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The Bruery Terreux

- From:
- The Bruery Terreux
- California, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Tripel
- ABV:
- 13.7%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.02 | pDev: 3.73%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 30, 2019
- Added:
- Jan 14, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
We filled fresh Willet bourbon barrels with our sour tripel then aged them for 12 months before finishing with Madagascar vanilla bean.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by taospowder:
Rated by taospowder from New Mexico
4.25/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Apr 05, 2019
4.25/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Apr 05, 2019
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by SHODriver from North Carolina
4/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: Poured into a Bruery tulip to a deep golden orange topped by a finger of dense and slightly rocky off white head which fades quickly to a collar around the edge of the glass with minimal lacing.
S: Smells of sourness, wet wood, and vanilla with some bourbon notes tucked underneath.
T: Taste is quite sour with some slight fruitiness, woody, interesting spice note, and some strong vanilla. Kind of middling plasticky like note as well with a little paint thinner. On the swallow there's more sourness, light citrus, vanilla, wood, bourbon barrel, paint thinner and spice. Surprisingly boozy for the ABV with a definite taste of alcohol.
M: This beer is fairly full in body with a slightly silky feel on the palate. Carbonation is on the lower end of effervescent while the beer has a drying finish due to the acidity.
O: Overall this isn't the most true to style beer out there. The sourness, bourbon barrel aging and vanilla take this one straight into left field. It isn't a bad beer and it gets much better as it warms. It just tastes like it's trying to do too much. The willet barrels imparted a ton of flavor but I just can't figure out what they were trying to do with this. It isn't bad, but it isn't great either.
Sep 30, 2019S: Smells of sourness, wet wood, and vanilla with some bourbon notes tucked underneath.
T: Taste is quite sour with some slight fruitiness, woody, interesting spice note, and some strong vanilla. Kind of middling plasticky like note as well with a little paint thinner. On the swallow there's more sourness, light citrus, vanilla, wood, bourbon barrel, paint thinner and spice. Surprisingly boozy for the ABV with a definite taste of alcohol.
M: This beer is fairly full in body with a slightly silky feel on the palate. Carbonation is on the lower end of effervescent while the beer has a drying finish due to the acidity.
O: Overall this isn't the most true to style beer out there. The sourness, bourbon barrel aging and vanilla take this one straight into left field. It isn't a bad beer and it gets much better as it warms. It just tastes like it's trying to do too much. The willet barrels imparted a ton of flavor but I just can't figure out what they were trying to do with this. It isn't bad, but it isn't great either.
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