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.
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(RIDGEWAY) SERIOUSLY BAD ELF ALE
WESTMALLE TRAPPIST TRIPLE BIER
ST. FEUILLIEN TRIPEL
ABBAYE DU VAL-DIEU TRIPLE
(DE PROEF) SLAAPMUTSKE TRIPLE NIGHTCAP ALE
Loads of sugary yeast sediment sinks into viscous amber setting of intoxicating nickel-hued full body. Initial coriander-spiced apple sequence settles to honeyed almond-butterscotch midst before peppery hops awaken tart lemon rind wisp descending upon mildewed cellar-like finish. Musty floral herbs conceal banana, golden raisin, and green grape nuances.
(HUYGHE) MATEEN TRIPLE ALE
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.
WEYERBACHER BELGIAN STYLE TRIPPEL
Precursor to Weyerbacher’s Merry Monks Ale. Ripe cherry-grape tang attracts nifty barleywine surge and a dash of herbal mint or clove spicing to creamy caramel center. Candi-sugared sweet ‘n sour honey malting enhances tertiary raisin-plum tartness, providing further full-bodied luster. An undeniably wonderful Belgian knockoff.
DE KONINCK (1833) TRIPEL
ACHEL TRAPPIST TRIPLE
Interesting pale-bodied hybrid unintentionally closer to phenol German weissbier than moderate-bodied Belgian Trappist Ale. Floral yeast nose suits honeyed wheat sweetness. Candied orange-tangerine tang spruces up spicy clove backdrop. Beige sediment dots thick viscosity for impairing relaxant aimed at light-heavyweights and up.