Green Flash Trippel

Brewed by Green Flash Brewing Co.
Style: Abbey Tripel
Vista, California USA

Bottle. Poured a slightly hazy orange color with a tall white head. Aroma is slightly spicy, slightly yeasty with hints of caramel and coriander. Medium bodied and highly carbonated. Flavor is sweet caramel malt, yeast, and spice. Finish is lightly bitter with tongue prickling alcohol.

Location: 22 oz bottle from Westover Market, split it with a friend on 5/29/09

Aroma: A nice, strong fruity nose, some apple, orange, a little honey, a little but bready as well
Appearance: Orange color, think creamy head
Flavor: Flavor is similar to the nose
Palate: A nice medium to full body, drinks nicely, hides the alcohol pretty well
Overall Impression: A pretty nice example of the Tripel, flavor works pretty well. Nicely done American take on this Belgian style.

on tap at papago... hazy brown tinted golden color with a soft white head and drippy lacing. some sort of fruit lingers in the aroma which i can’t identify... it mixes with pale malt, bready yeast, some spice, flowers and grass. something familiarly candi-like shows up in the flavor... sort of like a cross between bubblegum and sweet tarts.... along with that are notes of bready yeast, toast, honey, peach blossoms, orange peel, warm spices and a softly bitter finish. the body is on the fuller side of medium while the mouth feel is very rich and soft. unconventional. lacks some depth but decent enough... 7/4/7/4/15/3.7

On tap at the brewery in Vista. Pours a hazy yellow-orange body with a thin, creamy white head that dissipates quickly and leaves a soft lacing. Aroma is spicy, yeast, and has lots of rich, bready malts. Some honey, candi sugar, and somewhat sour apple-melon. Flavor is similar in the rich, bready malts, but has more of a noticeable spicy hop bite. Sweet Belgian yeast fruitiness, crisp honey, and some zesty spicing. Finishes dry with a malty and soft hoppy bitterness. Palate is light to medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Overall, a pretty solid trippel. I like the extra spicy hop taste and rich malts. Slighty different than most, which was nice.

Bomber. The hazy, orange-hued body of straw sparkles, topped with a small, tenacious head that leaves some lace. The aroma smells sweetly of light and dark fruits, molasses (huh?), musk, a light touch of honey and some faint spiciness. This beer is medium-bodied with plentiful, pleasant carbonation that diminishes 3/4 through the pint for a definitively watery-but-fine finish. The flavor is fruity like white wine--slightly sour, dark fruits, a light spiciness, pleasant esters, honey, alcoholic warmth, citrus and a very subtle, spicy-hop finish with some woodiness and a touch of roastiness--long-lasting and dry. Very drinkable, yet unconventional.

Really interesting in that it has a lot of west coast pale ale characteristics, but is also full bodied enough and has a complex Belgian yeast to make it unlike most beers out there. Sampled at 2009 LA Craft Beer Fest.

Poured luminous golden color in my chalice with white head. Nose was fairy rich with boozy sour apples. On the palate there was soft malt and an herbal quality that mingled with the sour apple fruityness. Overall, very boozy and fatiguing to drink.

Poured into a tulip glass. Golden orange with a small head after a vigorous pour. Smells of tree fruits and wild yeast. Tastes good. Flavor profile jumps around with the beer’s temp. Its definitely an americanized trippel. Kind of dry, nice light green apple yeast back end, surprisingly light on hops as I read it is dry hopped. Extremely drinkable. the high ABV is hidden extremely well. If you like american Trippels, try this one.