River Horse Tripel Horse

Brewed by River Horse Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Lambertville, New Jersey USA

12 oz bottle courtesy of an extra from Cletus. Thanks a bunch, John! My #100th rating of August, my highest month total to date. Pours an extremely well carbonated glowing orangey gold, almost fiery orange amber, a big offwhite head that dies a bit, but stays moderately big, laces ok. Aromas are fairly fruity, pear and apple and a touch of gumball sweetness, banana and some sweet mellow malts, there is very little spice in this brew. Fruit forward, faint hoppiness. Initial is well carbonated, light spice, moving towards estery fruit salad of apple, pear, banana, and gumball candy qualities, not really Belgian candy sugar, but that feel you get with some American Wheat brews. Head remains huge, a light warming brew, not as strong as you’d anticipate at 10% ABV. The head remains huge, which is a bit intimidating, a bit stronger flavorwise fruity, more spice comes through from the Belgian yeast, a touch of cinnamon. Decent body, as it coats fairly well for a lighter side of moderate brew. Fairly sweet as you get further into the brew, with light vanilla and fruit, light bitterness in the finish. Not bad. It’s just hard for me to love a Tripel, I guess.

BCTC. Hazy amber with head. Slight toasty biscuity sweet aroma. Toasted honey vanilla biscuit wood flavor. SOft palate. Cloying. Heavy. Just ok.

Pours cloudy brownish amber with a giant head. Aroma is quite nice with flowers and fruit. Mouth feel is medium in body with a lot of carbonation. Flavor is sweet with some grapefruit and a bit of funk. The alcohol is pretty string, but actually compliments the other flavors nicely. A good triple for an American brewer.

From my Brother in laws stash - bottle. Nice highly servicable Belgian style abbey Tripel. I prefer my Tripels with a high alcohol level a able to taste just hint of alcohol. This beers delivers that. Where it falls a bit short IMO is the complexity of flavors is not as intense as some of the actual Belgians. Stll all in an above average brew.

Tap at Ginger Man. Aroma of alcoholic circus peanuts, orange and yellow fruits. Flavor of bready malts with some fruit. Pretty good.

Tap at Ginger Man. Floral hops in the aroma. Floral flavor with lots of sugar. Not very interesting.

On tap at The Ginger Man. Pours a deep cloudy orange with a thick white head. Aroma of floral hops and light fruits. Flavor is sweet and fruity with Belgian yeast and candi sugar. Hmm, despite the commercial description, I thought this was a bit sweet. on the heavy side with its 10% abv. Good tripel. 7/4/7/4/15 (3.7/5)

Draft from somewhere. It tasted like kind of a meh tripel to me. Nothing new here.