Redhook Tripel

Bottle. Pours clear dark yellow-orange with a small, fizzy white head, mostly diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (cookie, hay, straw), average hop (flowers, perfume, grass), heavy yeast (dough, horse blanket) with notes of banana, clove, pear, and ginger. Medium bodied, sticky texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, moderate sweetness, acidity, and bitterness.

22 oz. Pours a pretty golden amber color with a 1/2" white head. No lace left behind. Aroma is bread, yeast and sugar. Moderate in body with healthy carbonation. Prickly on the tongue. Flavor is bread, orange peel, apple with a sweet background. Alcohol is present, but not annoying. Fairly decent effort.

Pours cloudy orange amber, headless. Full body, minimal carbonation. Some spice, but lots of orange peel. Seems too sweet.

Bomber - Poured a slightly hazy golden amber in color with a small white head that quickly faded to almost nothing. Aroma is malty and quite sweet with plenty of bready yeastiness and some fruity esters (grape, green apple?). Flavor is malty and quite sweet. Plenty of yeast. Alcohol is apparent in the flavor (some harshness) and presence felt in the "burn" as it goes down. The harsh flavor detracts from the overall experience. This is an OK tripel and I enjoyed it, but it could use some work.

Bottle. Pours a redish color with minimal white head, body then fades to a golden orange color. Nose is a sweet syrupy malt note with some light banana and a miniscule hint of clove and vanilla. a light sweetness. Palate is syrupy with a cloying feel and a bitter, stingy finish. Leaves a light alcohol and film note on the throat. Flavors of light syrupy caramel malt with hints of cherrys and vanilla and some banana and a light bit of coriander.

Copper colored, clear, and has a low off white head. The smell is very sugary, yeast, and fruits. The taste is too sweet, lots of residual sugar, spiced, and yeast.

Pours a transparent deep orange copper with a thin ring of white head. Has a sweet sugary caramel malty nose with a hint of strawberries and alcoholic warmth. Starts with a good malty fullness and a biscuity sugary toffee flavor before a slightly yeasty and warming finish. Could be closer to style and more complex.

This tripel is pretty average. There isn’t anything really outstanding about it. Nothing to seperate it from any other medicore beer. There’s really nothing to write home about with this offering. It pours a dark golden color with a minmal white head. There was absoutely no lacing left around the glass. The nose is fruity and floral with a hint of grass, bread, clove and slight hops. The body is a little overly-carbonated. It was just a little too spritzy. The flavors were plain and maybe even a little boring. There were subtle hints of clove, lemon, grass, bread and a hint of spicy hops. The finish is bready, a little spicy and quite dry. This, unfortunately, is a really unremarkable tripel.