New Holland Black Tulip Trippel Ale

Brewed by New Holland Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Holland, Michigan USA

Pours sparkling medium yellow with tiny particles, rocky white head. Aroma is nice of cookies and bubblegum. Flavor is moderatly sweet and lightly bitter (bannanas) with an average finish and tasty, inline for style. Medium bodied, creamy, softly carbonated with a nice dry finish.

Bottle. I think this beer is extremely underrated. Clear copperish golden pour with a beatiful pillowy white head and gorgeous lacing. Aroma came through with some unexpected floral hops, caramel malt, yeast, and banana notes. Flavor was overall sweet but slightly set off by a little bitterness. Palate is silky smooth, mild carbonation, and very drinkable. It blows my mind that this receives a 3.33 and a 72 percentile overall. It deserves better especially when comparing it to Unibroue La Fin Du Monde.

Pours to the most gorgeous bronze/copper/gold color imaginable. It’s very nice. The medium white head disapated to a dishwater looking head with excellent lacing. Yet, it still gleans a 5 on appearance. It’s just that pretty. The aroma is huge. Floral, perfume, caramel, spices. The aroma is well mixed for what it is and it doesn’t put me off like most floral/perfumey beers. The flavor is also quite good. Flowers, caramel malts, candi sugar, lemongrass, also a banana-bread-like quality. The palate is good. Slightly warming with a medium mouthfeel. I wonder if they’ve changed the recipe since it’s inception, because I think this one’s quite better than a 3.37.

I’m getting a full, aromatic and flavorful trippel with bright citric notes, odd but acceptable hints of soft fruit, crisp, better as it warms, leather and perfume, some pepper and tobacco herbal qualities from alcohol or hops. Warming to the stomach -- it’s obviously alcholic. I’m not getting any thinness -- in fact it’s more substantial although less creamy than Cinq Cents. The pint-size bottle is a good thing. Vielen dank, Psych Prof!

Nice beer! A perfect mix of belgian goodness and spice. Great fruity taste...yum..

Almost identical-looking to Chimay White. Maybe it’s just the power of suggestive marketing, but I’d swear I could smell the tulips in there - intendely floral aroma, nice hoppiness. Slightly weaker fruitiness than expected, a bit bitter. Dry, silent finish. Nice.

Golden yellow body with a small very short lived foam. Aroma is pronounced and is full of fruit such as peach and grape. It is almost a wine nose. Flavor is dry citrus, yeast, floral, grass and alcohol. After drinking a wonderful fruity / malty flavor remains. It is fairly complex and very enjoyable. Like a good book this had a distinct beginning, middle, and end. I was sorry to see the glass empty.

Reminds me of the old one liner that goes "Can I offer you a job planting tulips?". Herein you hope for the response "Where?" then you slyly point to the crotch of your pants. Man, I don't know how many babes that one's lured in.... Oh yeah, the beer. Well, I was please to plant my two-lips on this baby. Sweet, earthy and mellow smooth with a tranquil tongue. This dirty blonde pleased me time after time until I finished the last sticky, sweaty drop. She was decorated in fine lace which inticed me to rythmicly plunge myself into her nectors. It may sound gross, but this yeasty concotion with its wheaty aroma makes a fine night-cap. But alas, upon waking the next moring, she was gone. Perhaps our paths will cross again someday and we again will tip-toe through the tulips. (a tear streams down my cheek)