Rock Art Golden Tripple

Brewed by Rock Art Brewery
Style: Abbey Tripel
Morrisville, Vermont USA

@Tampa Wkly Gathering @tpd975s -22oz bottle-pours an offwhite head with cloudy gold color. Aroma is candy sugar, paper, light/medium malt, light/medium fruit-apricot, yeast. Taste is candy sugar, paper, light/medium malt, light/medium fruit-apricot, yeast, perfumy hops, phynols.

Pours a mildly hazy, but mostly clear golden bronze with a stringy-lacing white head. Aroma of sweet crystal malt and ginger with some mild Belgian yeastiness. Body starts lightly sweet with some biscuity notes and caramel toffee sugars along with a tough of doughy yeast and crystalized ginger spice before a drier, bitter peppery finish. Also has some light fruity esters throughout. A decently made triple but could use a little more complexity, balance and smoothness.

Pours amber with a nice white head. Smells of ginger, citrus, spice, cloves, lightly phenolic. Tastes dry and citrussy and ginger is dominant here. Some bitterness on the finish. This is one of the best beers I’ve had from this brewer. Impressive!

22 ounce bottle (as "Golden Tripple") from City Market in Burlington, VT (January 2008), consumed at cellar temperature from a Chouffe tulip. Pale, lightly hazy/thick golden in color, with a huge frothy nearly snow-white head that dies slowly leaving wispy lacing....lots of spices in the nose on this one, cardamom and ginger predominating, a bit of orangepeel, some lightly farmy yeast notes -- pretty much on-target if not spectacular......the body is definitely ginger-dominant, too much so in fact, dry and woody and very spicy with a strongly peppery finish; yeast character is evident as well throughout....the body is fairly full, but the harshness of the spices really takes its toll on the palate, and this ends up in this tasters mind an overdone spice bomb, interesting and not badly brewed exactly, but not terribly drinkable either.

Bottle. Pours an orange golden body with a white head. Ginger root all over this with a sweeter citrus and coriander character. Clover with a sweeter finish and a mild etoh warming. A step up from there usual.

Bottle: Poured an orangey color ale with a big foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma was totally dominated by ginger which is not an ingredient often found in tripel but it was still enjoyable. Taste was also dominated by loads of ginger with some coriander and a sweet Belgian style malt profile. Full body with great carbonation and no alcohol was detectable. Definitely not close too the style but nonetheless very enjoyable.

bottle, Tampa xmas gathering. Pours cloudy golden, white head. aroma and flavor, pack a punch of citrus hops, yeasty mouthfeel with distinct Belgian notes and grainy; wheat palate, some tea like herbs followed by the spiced ginger root and doughy malts.

Hazy light amber/orange in color with a medium head that dissipates but retains pretty well. Aroma of ginger, and belgian yeast- some banana esters, light spice and some alcohol. Taste is malty and fairly sweet for the style- ginger, light banana, and a good amount of malty sweetness- light caramel and toasted malt. Finishes with a very light hop bitterness, as well as some alcohol.