Lagunitas Were Only In It For The Money

Brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Petaluma, California USA

Bottle. Pours a hazy burnt orange color with a small white head. Nose is light fruit notes, sweetness, syrupy. Palate us syrupy and flat. Flavor is overly sweet with fruit notes and cloying sugar notes. Seems to be underattenuated. Way too sweet for my tastes.

Orange copper colored. Sediment. Off white decent head. The smell is caramel, cereal, malts, sugar, spices, and ok. The taste is sweet, malts, caramel, slight spices, and ok.

Bottle 65cl. @ home.
Clear medium to dark orange color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, herby, sugar, alcohol, marzipan ? Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel light to moderate alcoholic. [20090811]

Pours a clear golden orange color with a very thin fizzy bubbly white head that immediately disappears leaving no lacing behind. Crisp fruity Belgian yeast aroma with hints of sweet cherry, apple and strawberry as well some alcohol presence. Nicely balanced medium body with a lot of sweet fruity Belgian yeast notes, spice, candy sugar, hops and subtle malt backbone. Hints of apple, cherry, strawberry, plum and blueberry. Although the fruit presence is strong and there is a good bit of candy sugar, it isn’t too sweet with a nice amount of alcohol heat, subtle malt and dry hops balancing things out.

Bottle: Poured a slightly cloudy orangey color ale with a small foamy head with OK carbonation and minimal retention. Aroma of sweet notes is somewhat overpowering. Taste is a syrupy-like sweet malt base with no fruiter ester and noticeable yeast notes that usually accompany this style. Body has a syrup like texture with average carbonation but alcohol is well hidden. Not very good for the style, this brewery should stick to hops-centric beer IMHO - Nice packaging thought.

From KHIOSKH, Copenhagen, DK. Bottled, 101009. Golden with small head. Aroma of fruit and alcohol. Flavor is malt, alcohol and yeast.

Appearance is weak, clear gold with little head. Scent is better, sweet fruit, not much of the spices I fear so much. Taste actually isn’t too bad. Very mild and almost barleywine esque in character. Mouth is a bit thin and too flat.

Bottle at MesandSim’s tasting Aug 09. Thanks to HogTownHarry for this, he is one of my favourite raters. Oxidised aroma. Gold/orange colour. Peachy aroma, estery. Some what,? like a hoppy tripel. Lots of peach. Still too oxidised though.