Size 8
Lost Shoe Brewing & Roasting Company

Poured from a can into a snifter
Appearance – The beer pours a clear golden color with a one finger head of puffy white foam. The head has a good level of retention, fading slowly over time and leaving a good sum of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is heavy of a cracker malt and yeasty smell mixed with lots of clove and coriander spice. Along with these aromas comes a bit of a grape smell as well as some notes of pepper and bubblegum. A little bit of banana and notes of graham cracker round it all out producing a quite nice aroma overall.
Taste – The taste begins with a biscuit and cracker malt flavor mixed with the spice and the yeast that were in the nose. The spice is heaviest of clove, but some white pepper and coriander are in there as well. While the smell is a bit sweeter in nature, there is only a lighter level of sweetness with a bit of white grape and banana, along with some notes of peach and apricot. As the taste advances the spice gets a bit more intense, while some of the fruit fades and is replaced by a touch of bubblegum. Toward the end, the malt gets a bit heavier, while some notes of alcohol and a touch of earthiness join in, leaving one with a drier, moderatly spiced and crisp taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body is rather medium-light and moderately crisp with a fairly effervescent carbonation level.
Overall – A rather nice, drier, and balanced, easy natured tripel. I will certainly come back to this one again and would recommend if given the opportunity to experience.

 

Draft at the brewery
Light foamy head with medium retention, little lacing, little lacing, crystal clear pale light golden honey color

Nose brings perfumey alcohol out of the gate, potpourri phenol spices, floral, light fruity esters, citrus and pome fruit, malt is very light and not much sweet sugar, little bubblegum

Taste brings more of everything, sweet malt, blond malt with light Belgian candi sugar, caramelized sugars, into perfumey alcohol, fair alcohol warmth but not fusel, more potpourri floral phenol spices, fruity esters with pome fruit and mild citrus, and light bubblegum again, alcohol turning a little fusel late and hot, spicy phenols and mild bitter spicy hops lingering

Mouth is medium bod with higher effervescent carb, hot alcohol tingle

Overall mixed, had a lot of the good Tripel characters but goes a bit overboard on the alcohol side, maybe needs a bit more malt to balance as that seemed lacking a bit, or lower the fermentation temp a tad