Elysian Bête Blanche Belgian Triple

Brewed by Elysian Brewing Co.
Style: Abbey Tripel
Seattle, Washington USA

Spicy Belgian aroma, honey malts, with a hint of citrus. Pours blonde. Smooth flavor, some spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. Sold beer!

bubblegum, golden, hazy, light sweetness, light body, creamy, creamy. Great pour at Tangletown in Seattle. They refer to it as the bitch. Perfect match to an early summer. late spring sunny day.

On tap at Elysian Brewing Seattle, pours out a murky ligth tan topped with a white cream head. Very nice notes of spice and yeast. The Alcohol was pretty easy to pickup on. not a bad tripel

From Bottleworks in Seattle, a 22 oz. bottle--Poured a rich bright golden hue Big white head. Quite carbonated. Big hoppy and yeasty aroma. Spicy and fruity also. Great beer.

Bottle. Large white head with a yeasty aroma. Orange opaque appearance. Spices and a little apple flavor. The carbonation creates a tingling sensation on the tongue with a fairly clean aftertaste. This beer is amazing and a great price compared to most of the expensive imported Belgium beers.

22oz bottle, purchased at the brewery April 2007; Sampled August 2007
I have had this beer a couple times and. as usual, the beer is quite over carbonated. The beer sits in my glass with a lightly hazy, orangish tinged, copper color. A multitude of mad rivulets of carbonation stream up through the beer. This produces a full, four-finger thick, pale tan colored head that slowly recedes with a crag-mired surface and all the while leaving lacing patterns on the sides of the glass. A sharp, spicy aroma greets my nose with notes of ginger, tart citrus, earthy coriander and a nice honey-like note. A solid, clean malt character is found in the nose too, with notes of biscuit-like malt, fresh crushed malt, soda crackers and even some sweet malt aromatics. The aroma on this beer is quite nice & I certainly am enjoying smelling this beer.

The beer is fairly sweet tasting (though in no way overly so), which gives this a solid herbal-varietals-honey like flavor. The beer is quite well carbonated still, despite it being almost 10 minutes since I poured this brew. The carbonation adds a zesty, prickly sensation and certainly helps to clean the sweet honey flavors from the palate, though it never entirely banishes it. The finish has a herbal astringency (almost basil like, sort of menthol like), a solid hop bitterness and a dry malt character to it. Flavors of orange zest, white pepper, young ginger, soda crackers, fresh cut sharp tasting herbs (a mix of arugula/rocket, dandelion, nettle and green tea), sweet malt, perhaps a hint of earthy coriander, honeysuckle and even some notes akin to penny royal.

Quite a nice example of a Tripel. Despite the perceived sweetness, this beer still captures a lightness and quaffability that I like to see in my strong, pale, Belgian-inspired ales (even though many examples from Belgium don’t have this). I think that this beer is not nearly as sweet as my focus on it has been; a large part of this is due to the distinct honey note that I find here. I must say that I really like the hop character here, it adds a herbal, zesty edge to the flavor and plays quite a role in the flavor profile. This beer is really impressing me at this moment in time; in fact it is almost exactly what I want in a beer at this moment in time (yesterday or tomorrow I might not have appreciated it nearly as much). This is certainly one of the better beers I have had from this good brewery.

Hazy golden coloured body with a nice super dense white head. Aroma of strong yeast and wheat with a little coriander seed and a lot of floral aromas. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong wheat and yeast taste with some sweetness lingering further behind. Aftertaste shows a lot of character - yeast and spice show through very well. Overall, a damn good tripel, strong in flavour, yet still somewhat light enough to drink during the summer. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Seattle, Washington on 06 July 07.

22 oz. bottle - pours cloudy yellow with huge head that collapsed nicely in the middle, leaving lots of lacing; strong spice and wheat aromas; drinks very smooth w/ decent flavor and slightly sweet