Tag Archives: tripel

WAGNER VALLEY SLED DOG TRIPPELBOCK

Busy maroon-hued, ruby-highlighted, full-bodied, 10% alcohol bock counters off-dry astringency with pecan-buttered date-raisin-fig medley and considerable heavy molasses malt strength. Smooth brandy illusion informs creamy toffee-caramel finish. Aged three years in growler, raisin-pureed citric-soured prune-plum tartness, tannic Muscat grape dryness, and cider-fused Merlot-wined burgundy-bourbon finish reach summit.

(HUYGHE) DUINEN TRIPEL ABBEY ALE

Unique white bottle packaging can’t make up for overbearingly unrealized peculiarities. Up-front honeyed citrus sweetness and phenol clove spicing mired by murky malt-hop manipulation to sullied barleywine finish. Weird medicinal aftertaste ensues. Dried fig-peach-cherry-apple tartness coarsens yeast-soured brettanomyces pucker. Casual novice drinkers need not apply.

RIVER HORSE TRIPEL HORSE

Abstruse puffy-headed gold-hazed Belgian-styled medium body belies sweet-tart summer ale fruiting with wintry pine hop peppering. Initial dry white grape souring supplements banana breaded lemon pie illusions. Ensued candi-sugared vanilla midst preps tropical pineapple-papaya-peach latency and gaunt apricot-orange misting. On tap, white-peppered citric fruiting secured top spot above funky Belgian candied yeast and creamy caramelized crystal malting.