Elysian Bête Blanche Belgian Triple

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

Bomber. Poured fairly clear medium golden (first pour at least) with a lovely creamy cap of white head. Aroma picked up a huge blast of peppery spices, coriander, and orange zest.. came across a bit too sweet. Flavor had a spicy, wheaty base with ample doses of coriander, white pepper, and mild floral bitterness... again quite sweet, but tasty. Well-carbonated on the palate with high spiciness and sweetness.. some tangy wheat and orange zesty hits at the edges.. rather refreshing finish.

rating from memory, 22oz bomber, pours a golden orange color with an off white head. very light and fruity orange and coriander nose. flavor is wheaty, yeasty, orangy, and crisp. not a bad belgian for $3.99.

Undated bomber drunk on 1/19/07 at Monk’s Café
Very strong bottle-carbonation produces a large white head that is rocky and very long-lasting. Moderate haziness, despite my best attempt to leave the sediment behind. Milky-golden/platinum body is very pale with only light honey tints on the edges. Moderate amounts of webby lacing are produced.
Sweet cream and large amounts of vanilla practically erupt from the glass. Unfortunately, there’s a strong hint of oxidation which dulls things considerably. Peaches and nectarines, lots of residual sweetness and moderate, peppery phenols all seem to add the requisite notes, but it smells a bit too sweet and creamy. It definitely needs a big shot of dryness and it never really gets it. Some alcohol warmth combines with the esters to deliver a bit of dryness, but the oxidation adds an artificially sweet note that prevents any real refreshing dryness from developing. Warming just allows the heavy vanilla-cream notes to proceed, while allowing some banana, wheat and more peach notes to come forth as well.
Thick, doughy, heavily sugary body is full of honeycream and vanilla sweetness to the max. Light hints of canned peaches combine with alcohol dryness, beginning to cut a swath through the sweetness, but it ends up just getting punchy, while bready oxidation and bland yeast deliver a premature finish. Some notions of grass and light herbs from the hops, but it’s mostly just a soggy bitterness, almost tasting vegetal. Sweetness rolls on and soon it’s pretty near cloying/fatiguing. Frothy, engaging carbonation, but the medium amount of it is not even enough to lighten this body. Even without the oxidation, it’s way too sweet, nor is there much variation to the honey-vanilla malt flavors. Lots of doughiness on the finish as well. No sign of my favorite hop being used well here (styrians).

Bottle at Fort Wayne Tasting. Large white fizzy head that mostly diminished with minimal lacing, hazy, no visible carbonation, and a somewhat of a straw yellow hue. Nose was floral hops, spicy, some honey notes, and sugary. Flavor was fruity, spicy and floral. Tingly mouthfeel. Light-medium body. A so-so brew, but I have had better ones of this style.

Hazy gold color out of the bottle with a medicinal bubblegum nose and a big frothy white head. Candi sugar sweetness with some orange, spice, tangy yeast and puffed wheat notes. Very lively on the tongue. There are a lot of better tripels out there.

This bottled brew from Jeff Squire at a rating party poured a head of foamy finely sized white colored bubbles that were long lasting and left behind a very hazy typically carbonated dark yellow colored body and thick foamy lacing. The mild aroma was malty musty spicy and grassy. The mouth feel was very tingly at the start and at the finish. The flavor contained notes of mild fruit malty and mild oriander. A decent one but not one that I would consider drinking again.

on tap at brewery. cloudy dark golden color. very fruity flavor; true to style. tangy yeast finishing flavor.

GABF-on tap-pours an offwhite head with cloudy orange color. Taste is smooth not overly sweet.