Blue Mountain Mandolin Artisanal Ale

Brewed by Blue Mountain Brewery
Style: Abbey Tripel
Afton, Virginia USA

Name: Mandolin Artisanal Ale
Date: 05/24/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: hazy dark gold, wispy off white head,
Aroma: sweet malt aroma with nice spicyness and lots of fusel alcohols,
Body: big body,
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, light fruityness, lots of spicyness, light bitterness comes out of the spicyness,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Pours a hazy orange bronze with a spotty white head. Aroma of toasty caramel malts with an authentic biscuity Belgian yeastiness. Body starts with a nice light Belgian malty sweetness and some honey flavors with a touch of orange peel and floral bitterness before a drier, finish. A pretty good Belgian tripel.

Pours gold with a nice white head. Smells of crisp dry malt, some spice, earthy. Tastes of pepper, grassy some dryness on the finish. Decent.

Thanks to Andrew for opening this at DLD! Poured clear apple juicy yellow with about zero head sticking around. The aroma picked up sweet, toasty lighter fruits and peppery spices that made more of an impression with warmth.. nicely balanced. The flavor had some sour and almost funky lighter fruits along with caramel and toffee sweetness.. more fruit with warmth and a lot more hot alcohol at the back.. overall tasty, though. Sweeter on the palate with low carbonation and lots of peppery alcohol.. decent feel and drinkability.

Bottle courtesy of dkachur. Thanks Dan! Corked and caged with nearly an impossible to pull out cork. Hazed amber pour. Small white head. Nose is spicy/peppery with light mint, dried fruit and mellow malt notes. We all mentioned lavender when discussing this as well. Taste is spicy with more dried fruit, dusty yeast sweet malts, and light candy. Body is effervescent with a medium overall feel. Ends with more spices, lavender, soap, dried fruit, and light candied notes. Nice!

Thanks to pepsican and iowaherkeye for sharing this bottle. Not sure which one of you brought it. Poured a clear light orange color with an off white head. Spicy, fruity aroma of mango, apricot, and subdued clove. Apricot came out againin the flavor along with flaky pasty and astringent alcohol. Nice.

Poured at the Cigar City Bolita release party. Gold pour. Small whte head. Yeasty as hell on the nose wtih some faint spices. Flavor is ok. Yeast, spices, light fruits and lots of bubbles.

Pours deep gold with copper core and white head. The aroma has solid notes of lighter than dark fruity esters and decent amount of yeasty spice. The taste has plenty of fruitiness like raisins, prunes and a bit of apples followed by a floral hop note. Not too much else seems to be going on except a pretty solid alcohol presence. Still nice stuff.