Tripel
Stonehooker Brewing Company
- From:
- Stonehooker Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Tripel
- ABV:
- 7.9%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 20.31%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 01, 2020
- Added:
- Nov 25, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Fa3R1210 from Canada (ON)
5/5 rDev +28.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +28.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
At first surprised that it had no label, but then after I realized it gave a more local non-industrial product, and I would never switch it to a labelled beer
Jun 01, 2020
Reviewed by TheHammer from Canada (ON)
3.41/5 rDev -12.3%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev -12.3%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.5
Appearance: I'm being a bit lenient as this was in my fridge for a while, but the beer's carbonation is low to the point of near flat. I do seem some occasional bubbles, and a small atoll of head, but the carbonation isn't there. The body is bright copper amber, which is also a bit of an oddity.
Smell: Caramel malt with berries and plum of good potency. Warming didn't really help it's case very much.
Taste: Starts with mild caramel malt that has a bit of a wet grass funk to it, with dies down as the malt gets taken by a powerful plum presence with mild berry notes before the curtain gets pulled back and you get a small arrival of floral hopes that sadly can't cover a somewhat high alcohol note.
Mouthfeel: The elephant of the room here is the beer is flat at inception and the complete lack of head. The plum aftertaste is good, but it starts to get out of control around the half way mark. It's like there is an undercurrent of flavors that sabotage otherwise good transitioning...which I think the higher carbonation might have helped conceal to be honest.
Drinkability: For a style that's almost always a special treat, this one just isn't doing the trick on that front. I mean it goes down easy enough, and it had better with a carbonation that low, but unless plum was your thing I just don't see that here. Medium bodied, and while I does strike me as an attempt to push the limits of the style and bring the malt forward, it does so at the cost of that fruit yeast character the style is renowned for.
Final Thoughts: A lot of my issues from this beer stem from the low carbonation. That said, I did give it a bit of a pass as it had been in the fridge for a while. I like the idea of having a more caramel malt and less a bread malt presence for the style, and I think you could do something with it, but the strong plum, odd funk and alcohol note have me wondering, just how much the beer would have changed if it was a bit fresher. If it's brewed again, and your are at the brewery, I think it could be interesting. This review, sadly was not that.
May 27, 2020Smell: Caramel malt with berries and plum of good potency. Warming didn't really help it's case very much.
Taste: Starts with mild caramel malt that has a bit of a wet grass funk to it, with dies down as the malt gets taken by a powerful plum presence with mild berry notes before the curtain gets pulled back and you get a small arrival of floral hopes that sadly can't cover a somewhat high alcohol note.
Mouthfeel: The elephant of the room here is the beer is flat at inception and the complete lack of head. The plum aftertaste is good, but it starts to get out of control around the half way mark. It's like there is an undercurrent of flavors that sabotage otherwise good transitioning...which I think the higher carbonation might have helped conceal to be honest.
Drinkability: For a style that's almost always a special treat, this one just isn't doing the trick on that front. I mean it goes down easy enough, and it had better with a carbonation that low, but unless plum was your thing I just don't see that here. Medium bodied, and while I does strike me as an attempt to push the limits of the style and bring the malt forward, it does so at the cost of that fruit yeast character the style is renowned for.
Final Thoughts: A lot of my issues from this beer stem from the low carbonation. That said, I did give it a bit of a pass as it had been in the fridge for a while. I like the idea of having a more caramel malt and less a bread malt presence for the style, and I think you could do something with it, but the strong plum, odd funk and alcohol note have me wondering, just how much the beer would have changed if it was a bit fresher. If it's brewed again, and your are at the brewery, I think it could be interesting. This review, sadly was not that.
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