Belgian Tripel
Old Abbey Ales
- From:
- Old Abbey Ales
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Tripel
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 8.38%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 31, 2020
- Added:
- Jun 10, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)
3.89/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.89/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
22 ounce bottle - cellared for about a year - that is to say I purchased August 2019 but suspect older than that by a bit.
Pours a clear orange copper colour with finger and a half of foamy white head. Split 3 ways - the last pour hazy from dregs
Smells of caramel malt, candied orange, Belgian yeast with ripe banana and alcohol soaked bubblegum.
The taste starts with sweet caramel malt, a slightly sticky sweet burnt orange flavour, boozy banana, with a definite alcohol presence over a sense of mild bitterness at the back not unlike burnt caramel.
Full slightly sticky mouthfeel with a hanging booziness and sweetness that rides the edge of cloying. Decent though not favourite Tripel ever - would drink again but probably 8 ounces is enough in a sitting.
Aug 31, 2020Pours a clear orange copper colour with finger and a half of foamy white head. Split 3 ways - the last pour hazy from dregs
Smells of caramel malt, candied orange, Belgian yeast with ripe banana and alcohol soaked bubblegum.
The taste starts with sweet caramel malt, a slightly sticky sweet burnt orange flavour, boozy banana, with a definite alcohol presence over a sense of mild bitterness at the back not unlike burnt caramel.
Full slightly sticky mouthfeel with a hanging booziness and sweetness that rides the edge of cloying. Decent though not favourite Tripel ever - would drink again but probably 8 ounces is enough in a sitting.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - strange how so many new Canadian and American craft breweries are tackling this high-test, hard to really love Belgian style. I guess 'tis their right!
This beer pours a glassy, medium copper amber colour, with a rising tower of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves some stellar sudsy webbed patchwork lace around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy caramel malt, chewed-out bubblegum, stewed bananas, a tame earthy yeastiness, muddled citrusy and grassy hop bitters, and yerp, a hovering phenolic booziness. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a free-ranging sugar syrup thing, baked bananas, increasingly ethereal generic citrus bitters, rising yeast, and that same menacing, if not quite engaging estery alcohol measure.
The carbonation is quite active in its swirling frothiness, and more focused fizziness, the body a dense middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a sauce-addled creaminess. It finishes sweet, though barely tempered by the indistinct fruitiness and that still surprisingly restrained fist of perilous booze.
Overall, not a bad rendition of a Belgian Tripel, with a minor West Coast upgrade - the fruitiness from the hops going a long way in keeping this one more or less between the metaphorical ditches. So, credit where credit is due - Old Abbey has fashioned a Tripel that is surely drinkable, but sessionability is, by nature, still totally out of the freaking question.
Feb 17, 2016This beer pours a glassy, medium copper amber colour, with a rising tower of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves some stellar sudsy webbed patchwork lace around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy caramel malt, chewed-out bubblegum, stewed bananas, a tame earthy yeastiness, muddled citrusy and grassy hop bitters, and yerp, a hovering phenolic booziness. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a free-ranging sugar syrup thing, baked bananas, increasingly ethereal generic citrus bitters, rising yeast, and that same menacing, if not quite engaging estery alcohol measure.
The carbonation is quite active in its swirling frothiness, and more focused fizziness, the body a dense middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a sauce-addled creaminess. It finishes sweet, though barely tempered by the indistinct fruitiness and that still surprisingly restrained fist of perilous booze.
Overall, not a bad rendition of a Belgian Tripel, with a minor West Coast upgrade - the fruitiness from the hops going a long way in keeping this one more or less between the metaphorical ditches. So, credit where credit is due - Old Abbey has fashioned a Tripel that is surely drinkable, but sessionability is, by nature, still totally out of the freaking question.
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