Allagash Tripel Reserve

Brewed by Allagash Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Portland, Maine USA

Poured from a 750ml caged and corked bottle and served in a tulip. This beer poured a hazy, golden orange hue with a lasting head of creamy off-white foam. A decent coat of lacing was left around the glass. The aroma of the beer was made up of fresh orange peel, honey, pale malts, and lightly peppery yeast esthers. The flavor included bananas, orange peel, light honey, and light caramel. No trace of alcohol until a slight warmth at the finish. The mouthfeel is round and full-bodied with a nice crisp feel from some assertive carbonation. A really well crafted brew. Tasty stuff!

[Bottle] Pours a hazy gold with a large rocky off white head and some floaties. Aroma is pretty slight, but lots of citrus notes, lemon, orange peel. Flavor matches. Extremely smooth and pretty light in the mouth. The alcohol is not terribly present. A very drinkable tripel.

8/2/08 from the bottle. Aroma is a blend of roast malt and pepper forward with a caramel finish. Appearance is hazy gold with a well maintained white head. Flavor is clove forward with a perfumy banana background. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with a somewhat grainy carb texture blend. Overall, quite good and worth trying just for the complexity.

Batch 37 Slightly oxidized.The appearance was a large sized white head that consisted of fine-small sized bubbles.There was was carbonation observed with this beer along with a cloudy body.The hue was yellow and the nose consisted of malt, hops, fruit, and cloves.The flavor was sour, tart, and fruity.It had bubbly and smooth mouthfeel along with a medium body.There was virtually no lacing with this beer.

Well how on earth did I wait until this long to try this beer? Bomber, shared for sure! Amber pour wtih a medium off white head. Lacing is nice too. Aroma is really nice, malty, fruity, sweet, woody. Good shit folks. Flavor is yeasty and rich. Good mouthfeel. WINNER!

Foul aroma right from the get-go which only smells like lead, mite dust, and iron. In contrast to that however, the flavor is excellent; Fruity sweet with cream character. Viscosity and carbonation are near perfect. Perhaps the smoothest Tripel I’ve ever. An odd recommendation: Drink this one straight from the bottle for maximum enjoyment, do not pour; It’s better sans the disappointing aroma. You make look like a wino, but who cares? Honestly, its better right out of the bottle.

Bottle into chalice. Pours a cloudy orange-gold with a creamy 1-finger off-white head that lasts practically forever. Aroma is fruity and sweet - ripe golden (passion) fruit, spicy yeast, honey. Taste is banana and ripe golden fruit, honey sweet malt, and a crisp, dry, slightly bitter yeast spiciness. Finish is dry and yeasty with a bit of alcohol, and a faint, balancing bitterness from the yeast and alcohol, and maybe a slight herbal hop undertone. Carbonation is crisp, with a creamy, medium body. Really a fantastic tripel.

Purchased from Belmont Station in an adorable 12oz. bottle--Poured a hazy golden-orange hue with a ginormous white head. Phenolic banana-clove nose with prickly spiced notes and some bold booziness. Crisp malt underpinning. Alcohol well masked. Funky yeasty wheaten complexity. Great example of the style. Yum!