Brewers Art Green Peppercorn Tripel

Brewed by The Brewers Art
Style: Abbey Tripel
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Pours a pale gold with significant haze. Aroma is sweet malt, some strawberry esters, and some peper notes form the yeast. Peppercorns are not apparent in the aroma. Flavor is a sweet tripel with a little too much fusels, but an interesting complexity from the green peppercorns. Aftertaste has nice peppercorn character, but the fusels come through again. I split this bottle, and I’m glad I did, it tasted real good, but I think much more would give me a headache from the fusels.

Thanks for sharing Yaniv! Pours a hazed light golden with a very healthy, rather stable, while medium density head. The nose is sweet with pale malt. Really rather pleasant level of spicing. Not particularly cloying and yet not particularly fruity. Rather, the spicy to peppery hops (maybe pepper corns?) seems to real it in. A slick rather low carbonation body, for the amount of head, especially. Substantial. Sweet in the mouth, but it dries out so quickly. Spicy hops, peppery hops, pepper? I don’t know what green pepper corns taste like precisely, but I’m guessing this could be about it. A dry lingering finish. Lots of esters. The alcohol is present, but only in that lurking beneath the surface, hitting you in the back of the eyeballs when you least expect it way. Not a bad brew, one of my favorite tripels actually.

A surprisingly good tripel. Fairly thick on the palate, and sweet as well. It reminds me of Karmeliet, with light spice, but not as sweet or complex as that beer. Some coriander, yeast, and just a little pepper that I probably wouldn’t notice if I wasn’t looking for it.

Sampled at MN Ratebeer Winter Gathering in Maplewood, MN and supplied by Stein. From a 750 ml bomber pours a semi-hazy golden pale brew with a thick off-white head that has some good retention and spotty lacing. Aroma of light bready malt, some coriander, yeast, a touch of white pepper and lemon zest. Taste is medium bodied, light carbonation with flavors of banana esters, yeast, a touch of sourdough bread, and wheat. Finish is slightly fruity with a spiced yeast aftertaste that really comes out. I could detect some peppercorn in the finish but t was just barely there.

750ml caged and corked bottle provided by Stine. Plenty of banana esters on the nose. Slightly soapy. Lavender. I have to search to get pepper. Pours a hazy and chunky light gold with a thin white head. Green pepper, banana yeast ans some sweeter toasted malt on the tongue. Zesty, peppery and tangy on the tongue.

MN Ratebeer Winter Gathering, January 12, 2008. Unfortunately, I don’t know who brought this one out, but thanks! Hazy yellow color with a large head. Strong, yeasty aroma. A little malt and yeast for the taste, along with some Noble hop. Very, very little peppercorn spice.

Faint peppercorn on the nose, which was disapponting. Not much on the body for tripel level spiciness.

Poured from a 750 ml bottle. Still, slightly cloudy soft golden pour. Tart citrus, apple, light pepper in the nose; hints of minerals, chlorine, and zesty spice. Late suggestions of pungent coriander and an almond-lemon meringue crust. Sweet, spicy, fruity; the characteristics are there but they are for the most part plain, forseeable, and uninspiring. Flavor while cold brings only a syrup of inspid fruit and powerful sourdough yeast, but upon warming reveals a cracked pepper and wheat bread crust character that expands slowly and pleasantly in the mouth. Crisp and soft on the palate; light to medium bodied. Some fruity heat finishes, but alcohol is cleanly restrained for the most part. A clever balance well executed; very spicy, attractive, and quietly unique.