Anderson Valley Brother Davids Triple

Brewed by Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Boonville, California USA

Bomber, with sealing wax and a bottle cap. Cute, I guess. Pours blood-orange/amber with a thin white head that says hey look over there and it’s gone. Enormous sugary green apple nose, followed by an enormous candi sugary palate. Fizzy, more or less after the Belgian manner. Attractive and drinkable, but it’s swimming with some mighty big fish. It’d be nice to say "at least the booze is well hidden," but then your throat starts to throb gently and you can’t really say that, unless you want to fib a little.

Bottle. Clear amber-copper body with a small white head. The aroma is tripely- fruit, apple, dusty pear, apricot, and cereal. Typical cereal-like flavour, quite sweet in a smooth rich way. Not bad but somewhat simplistic.

Being a belgian fan I’ve had way better domestic interpritations of this style of brew. This not impressive. Weak head and amber in color. A definitely feel of fruit and like one below describe like rotten apples in the end. A little weak and watery in the mouth. There is way better triples than this one.

Pours amber with a small, sporadic head. Very apple cider-like aroma, with a big dose of Belgian yeast. Light citrus and alcohol. A lot of apple in the flavor, too, but it’s kind of a rotten apple towards the end. Some hay and peach. Thin mouthfeel, prickly carbonation. Unique and interesting, but not exactly good.

Bottled bomber. Beer is clear, medium-dark caramed colored with a small, frothy, white, mostly and rapidly diminishing head. The aroma is malty with moderate notes of slightly husky toasted grain, caramel, trace of toasted almond; Hoppy with a moderate note of resin/pine, light notes of herb, apricot, black tea, trace of lemon zest; Yeasty with a trace of basement, dough; Trace miscellaneous note of vanilla, burbon and a moderate note of alcohol. The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly-to-moderately biter, lightly acidic with a longish, warm-to-hot, lightly acidic, lightly bttersweet finish. The body is full, the texture is velvety and the carbonation is lively.

Bottle shared with Blankboy, Hogtown Harry, and MDS, courtesy of Harry. Sampled back to back with the Dubbel, which we found surprisingly really good, this was second up. Alcohol, spice in strong Triple aroma. Golden brown, little white head. Taste: restrained surprisingly (aroma suggested a booze monster); spicy malt, surprisingly (there’s that word again) hoppy middle and end. Fruity. Very sweet and tasty but something was missing. Not nearly as good as the Dubbel, but still solid enough to suggest giving it a try.

Bottle shared with HogTownHarry, mds & tupalev -- courtesy of HogTownHarry. Pours a clear golden-orange with an average size mostly-lasting white head. Very sweet aroma of sweet malt, Belgian yeast, brown sugar, spices and fruit -- pretty nice, not cloying. Flavour’s the same: quite sweet, almost candy-ish with yeast, brown sugar, spices and a quite a bit of alcohol. Medium bodied. Pretty good but the consensus was the Dubbel is much better.

Spicy citrus aroma. Pours a clear golden color with just the slightest haze. Yeasty sweet malt taste with citrus notes. Alcohol comes thriough assertively. Pretty decent.