Fish Tale Monkfish Triple (2004-)

Brewed by Fish Brewing Company/Leavenworth Beers
Style: Abbey Tripel
Olympia, Washington USA

Bomber bottle, 2009 vintage, up to 10% ABV. heavily carbonated, bubbles crawling all over the side of the glass. Clear medium brown color with a high apple, tart aroma, heavy on belgian yeasts and esters. flavor is really cloying sweet. It’s decent, but really generic for a tripel. It follows the style well, but does nothing new.

The was the 2009 version from a 22 oz bottle. It poured a cloudy orange with a moderate white head and average lacing rings. The aroma is ripe fruit at first, and then you detect coriander and citrus. The mouthfeel is light but smooth. The flavor is dominated by the malts with some light citrus hops in the background The finish is lightly bitter. For a Tripel Ale this was relatively mild, but it was quite enjoyable.

Bronze colored with a decent head. Bready & doughiness dominate both aroma and flavor, though quite drinkable. Strong dusty-yeasty component. Sourdough finish.

pours a clear orange-ruby with a thin off-white head, and some lacing. smell of dark fruit, some caramel, and sour malt. taste is a little tart, prunes, grapes, some bread yeast, and some sour malt, ends on the dry side and just a little bitter.

11/10/2007: Fish Tale Monkfish Triple has an apricot to burnt golden color. It contains lots of really tiny bubbles on the surface and looks thick. The off-white crown is thin and foamy. The beer itself is cloudy/murky and appears mostly opaque. The aroma is like alcohol-soaked dried fruit with deep ctirus and rich caramel maltiness. Rich and deep toasted and caramel maltiness as well of suggestions of darker roasted malts are found in the flavor as well as various fruit flavors, including peach, sweet honey, orange, pear, pineapple, and lots of apricot in the finish. This beer is dry toward the finish and strong, but the alcohol is well-hidden and contained. This beer is also slightly earthy in the middle with a subdued, borken-down hoppiness. The body of this beer is medium-full and is has a smooth and mellow texture. This is not the typical Tripel, but still damn good!

22 fl. oz. bottle () from mcbackus via trade in September 2006. Thanks! Rating #140 for this beer.

Excellent mildly cloudy orange with a tiny ammount of dark sediment, but poured a small light tan head with little lacing. Where’s my awsome Belgium lacing??? Aroma is very fresh and mild with some light spice. Fruity aromas of peach and then apples. Some sugary smell too along with a noticable floral aroma. Not even the faintest alcohol smell. Very pleasant smelling, but weak and once again the style is missed with the lack of spices. Taste is also pleasant but too soft. Taste is more of an aftertaste. Malty and sweet fruits (oranges and lemon), some spice - mostly in the lingering aftertaste - and raisins (weak if at all). Seems watered down....maybe it’s the yeast. Not quite medium bodied, it’s very smooth and could use a bit more carbonation on the swish. I do like the ’smack your mouth’ spicy bitterness which is not overpowering whatsoever. Man, I could drink a ton of this, and I will by more cause it really is a good drink, but all in all it never lives up to anything from Belguim. How can I rate this so low when I enjoyed drinking it so much? Easy. On a side note, buy 2 or more bottles - one for sampling and the rest for cellaring. I’m curious how good this could be if it sits. It better be or I’ll pissed off. I’ve got high expectations of Fish Beer.

Beer pours a dark cloudy honey brown with zero head just a skiff of microscopic bubbles floating on top, where’s my massive Belgian head!?!?!?! Very mild floral yeast aroma that gets pushed to the side by some potent hops, this is suppose to be a Belgian triple hops are not suppose to be this aggressive. Hops dominate the taste with some weak malts and limited yeast. Beer is lacking any spicy notes and citrus qualities, more yeast started to show up when the beer warmed. It’s not a bad beer it’s drinkable it’s just a crappy triple, Fish tale fell way short on the style here, but they did brew a drinkable beer.

Malt. Lightly sweet. Very much like a barleywine, nearly still, some hops. Lightly cloudy.