Oaken Barrel Epiphany

Brewed by Oaken Barrel Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Greenwood, Indiana USA

Date: 05/24/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

Appearance: hazy gold, frothy off white head, streaks of lace,
Aroma: sweet malt aroma with light fruity esters balanced by a nice spicyness, touch of candy,
Flavor: sweet and fruity candy malt flavor, light balancing spicyness, touch of balancing bitterness comes out of the spicy character,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Pours a slightly hazy golden with a thin ring of small-bubbled wispy-white head. Aroma of orange citrus and pale malts with some phenols. Body starts fairly full and viscous with some bready yeasty and sweet malt and honey notes along with a touch of light fruity flavors before a warming finish. Has some decent authenticity but needs more balance.

Pours a golden color with a white head. Aroma is banana, clove, honey, yeasty, spice, and peppery hops. Flavor is honey, vanilla, spice, peppery hops, and a slight alcohol finish.

Bottle. Sweetish vanilla and yeast aroma, also a good deal of honey and wood, resolving to a nice bready malt. Pale golden pour with soapy white head. Taste is too sweet, yet not quite cloying, with a bready dryish aftertaste and vague shivs of fruit. Clove notes are nice and rounded, but there a very slight tendency toward staleness, with a nice, tingling mf and medium body. Honey, vanilla, and yeast. Not as harshly alcoholic as I have come to know tripels, but then again, all the more drinkable. Think I’d like this with Thai food. In short, smooth and above average, but not by much.

some fruit in the aroma, but little palate. very yeasty and hoppy. i like oaken barrel, but this just wasnt for me.

On tap at Rich O’s - Pours burnished golden with a mostly receding wispy off-white head. Aroma of pineapple, banana, apricot and bubble gum. Taste is fruity and estery with many of the aromatic notes combined with a gentle candi sugar sweetness. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with lush carbonation. A well done tripel, one of the better American examples.

Pours yellow, clear, with very little head. Aroma is rather grassy. Flavor is grassy with some qualities of light fruit and yeast. Moderate mouth feel. Not a bad beer all around, although it feels more like a Vienna or a Dortmunder to me than a Tripel.

Growler. White grape and peach malt aroma. Bright yellow color with minimal head. Sweet grape-peach malt aroma with a mild alcohol finish. Very nice beer - really enjoyed the grape flavor in this one.