BridgePort Fallen Friar

Brewed by BridgePort Brewing (Gambrinus Company)
Style: Abbey Tripel
Portland, Oregon USA

Bottle, thanks to WeeHeavySD for sharing! Pours a clear orange-amber with a white ring. Rich aroma, of malt, preserved citrus, grass, and yeast. Taste of malt, sugar, preserved citrus, pine. Lingering sharp-sweetness. Nice.

Pale amber beer with a touch of cloudiness. Aroma is quite light with a decent spiciness, light peach and some lightly honeyish sweetness. A bit of peach and banana flavour with a fairly spicy character. Soft pale malt with a lingering estery sweetness. It’s sweet but it’s still fairly well balanced. Chewy and sweet. It actually comes across better than it has any right to.

pours a clear orange with a small white head, and some lacing. smell of sour fruit, some berry, spice, and a touch of malt. taste is light, semi-tart, some sour malt, citrus, fruit, and some spice.

22oz bottle, one month old. Looks to be forced-carbonation and lightly filtered, so there’s a slight haze to the gold body. First whiff (when cold) is acetylhyde and fusel grains - smells like it’s been light-struck, but I doubt that’s the case. Some white grape and oak notes show up when warmer but it’s beyond salvation. Oily and somewhat thin up front. Turns too sweet in no time - clean but unremarkable pils malt and an overdose of Belgian candy sugar leave this one cloying and oily. Bubbly unnatural cola-like carbonation is a real killer. No softness, no finesse. I just don’t get the point. You would think that 10-15 years since they began Bridgeport would be able to pull this off. They seem to do well enough with draft and cask, and even their bottled ESB and IPA are worthy of praise. This seems mailed in. It just sucks.

Pours a lightly hazed medium golden color with a small off white head. Nose held some Brett funk with some nice floral and citrus notes. Flavor had a touch of hop bitterness with some citrus peel, light spice and some oak. Finishes crisp.

Bottle Pours out a cloudy gold topped with a fair white head. Aroma a nice rich malt, some spice along with a belg yeast. Tast more of the spice and rich malts. A little pit fruit on it aswell. Not to bad.

Thanks to bitbucket for this one - pours a very hazy peach color - lightly tannic, white wine aroma, with mild oak, peaches, apples, vanilla - the flavor is not as impressive - dry, herbal, light notes of oak, spicy alcohol, peaches, vanilla - there is a very mild metallic character on the back that makes it less anjoyable - I would like to see the character of the barrel more present, perhaps a 50/50 blend, but this ain’t bad - certainly better than its current score.

22oz bottle acquired in trade with riversideAK (thanks!). Poured a medium to deeper golden color with an averaged sized whte head. Aromas of spices, some fruitiness, lighter yeastiness, some oaky wood, citrus, and a trace of wine. Tastes of spices, the same ligther fruitiness, wood (lighter than the aromas), and the same trace of wine. Alcohol well hidden. Not sweet like some tripels can be (which is not a bad thing).