Lake Louie Brother Tims Tripel

My first bottle of this year’s model is super hoppy - - a real surprise. Hop bittering almost like fresh tree bark predominates, set off by enough bright apricot candy spice to keep it out of pale ale territory, and keep it dancing. Will have to side-by-side it with Piraat.

Name: Brother Tim’s Tripel
Date: November 01, 2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: clear copper, wispy off white head
Aroma: sweet candy malt aroma with lots of spicyness
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, nice spicyness adds complexity rather than balance, long bitter finish from the spices
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

first off, thanks goes out to to ole foxy john for this.. has a real belgian essence to it .. has a slab of bitterness to it, which i really like .. murky light tan-dark honey color, with great lacing that coats the glass .. saturday night is a good night .. easy to put down .. abv works .. a real enjoyable to drink brew ... and if Ana is reading this, call me!

Appearance: Pours a clear, light golden body with a small, white head. Smell: Sweetish, honeysuckle nose with a hint of fruit and a clear, nostril-flaring waft of booze fumes. Taste: Sweet, honeyed maltiness with a sip of fruity peach juice and cotton candy extract. Faintest spiciness. Even fainter bitterness. Coarse alcohol all the while. Pinch of dried herbs on the sweet finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium-low carbonation. Drinkability: No thanks. Unnecessarily sweet and comes across as needless boozy. The lack of adequate carbonation really allows the unpleasantness to languish on the tongue.

Pours a clear orange with a thin, quickly vanishing head. Aroma of spiced, rum-soaked raisins. Flavor leads with mixed spices, sweet, yeast is pleasantly funky, but carries a sulfury off note. Lemon zest on the finish.

From a 12oz bottle - Pours a clear pale color with small quickly dissipating head. Below average carbonation. Smells sweet with a nice bitter hop presence and yeasty notes. First sip is sweet and smooth with fruity hops and Belgian yeasts. Very nice, very drinkable. Excellent bitter finish.

Pours a cloudy nut brown colour with a large light brown head. Mouthfeel is creamy, well carbonated with plenty of flavors of caramel, hint of oak nuts, cotton candy and cinnamon. Aroma is pelasent too, bright fruit- spice and touch of whisky.

This poured a slightly hazy deep golden in color with a thin head that dissipated away. Aromas were of sweet florals, spice, wet dough and tangerine. In the mouth it was medium-bodied, smooth and rich. The flavors were on the herbal/floral side and finished with some drying bitter hops.