Tripel Belgian IPA
Old Abbey Ales
- From:
- Old Abbey Ales
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian IPA
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 2.45%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 02, 2020
- Added:
- Sep 13, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)
3.73/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
650 ml bottle - no idea on age on this - purchased last August and not clear fresh then. That said not clear hurts this.
Pours a clear orange to copper colour (note dregs at bottom and suspect second pour will be less clear!) with creamy white head.
Smell is fruity and malty - caramel, a bit of citrus, slightly floral and sweet.
Taste is sweet citrus, peach, caramel malt, brown sugar, Belgian yeast, and mildly spicy. There is a bit of pine happiness but would not suggest bitter.
Medium full mouthfeel on moderate carbonation - sweet boozy fruity character dominates, but frankly 10 ounces was quite alright - quite different and not clear at this point in its lifespan I could pick out IPA anywhere but I enjoyed even tough a tad sweet.
May 02, 2020Pours a clear orange to copper colour (note dregs at bottom and suspect second pour will be less clear!) with creamy white head.
Smell is fruity and malty - caramel, a bit of citrus, slightly floral and sweet.
Taste is sweet citrus, peach, caramel malt, brown sugar, Belgian yeast, and mildly spicy. There is a bit of pine happiness but would not suggest bitter.
Medium full mouthfeel on moderate carbonation - sweet boozy fruity character dominates, but frankly 10 ounces was quite alright - quite different and not clear at this point in its lifespan I could pick out IPA anywhere but I enjoyed even tough a tad sweet.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.54/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - apparently this is a Tripel blended with a Belgian IPA. Simple, yeah?
This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some distant mountain range profile lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of rather sweet caramel malt, further biscuity toffee notes, a phenolic yeastiness that made me throw up a little bit in my mouth (back in a sec), concentrated citrus juice, a muddled earthy spiciness, candi sugar, and some plain leafy, piney, and certainly perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, reduced brown sugar syrup, a now better behaved yeasty character, vodka steeped citrus peel, a touch of generic ground pepper spice, and more testy leafy, spicy, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite tame in its barely-there frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and actually more or less smooth, once the booze gets my palate squared away. It finishes still rather sweet, the malt and hoppy fruitiness really running the table here.
Overall, I am not certain that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts - the IPA side of the equation does tamp down the heady sweetness of the Tripel, but not enough, IMHO. A big, brass-balls brew, to be sure, but kind of hard to put back, what with the less than fully integrated wowee sauce contingent. Be weary, unless you're up for a challenge.
Jan 25, 2017This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some distant mountain range profile lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of rather sweet caramel malt, further biscuity toffee notes, a phenolic yeastiness that made me throw up a little bit in my mouth (back in a sec), concentrated citrus juice, a muddled earthy spiciness, candi sugar, and some plain leafy, piney, and certainly perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, reduced brown sugar syrup, a now better behaved yeasty character, vodka steeped citrus peel, a touch of generic ground pepper spice, and more testy leafy, spicy, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite tame in its barely-there frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and actually more or less smooth, once the booze gets my palate squared away. It finishes still rather sweet, the malt and hoppy fruitiness really running the table here.
Overall, I am not certain that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts - the IPA side of the equation does tamp down the heady sweetness of the Tripel, but not enough, IMHO. A big, brass-balls brew, to be sure, but kind of hard to put back, what with the less than fully integrated wowee sauce contingent. Be weary, unless you're up for a challenge.
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