Southern Tier Tripel

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Lakewood, New York USA

Pours a clear pale yellow color with a white head. Aroma is floral, herbal, spicy, grainy, malts, and spicy hops. Flavor is malty, herbal, floral, grainy, spicy hops, and a slight alcohol finish.

Solid tripel, but I am not a huge fan of the style - too sweet for me. This one is ok, maybe a little drier than I was expecting. ABV is there for sure. Would have liked it better if it wasnt quite so thin.

Oct. 2007 - Pour was golden yellow with smallish head but decent lacing. Aroma was sweet, bananas and pear. The flavor was also bananas, pear and other fruits, almost like the syrup left over after a fruit cocktail. Mouthfeel was likewise thick and oily, but with decent carbonation and a slight hop bitterness at the end to round it out. A little light on the spicings for a trip, but not bad.

12 oz. pours a medium gold with one finger head and great retention, good lacing. Aroma is a soft bouquet of orange, brown sugar and honey blossom. Palate is thin and wet despite the high alcohol, drinks like a white wine almost. Flavor is mild with orange, peach, honeysuckle and rose petal. Overall, shocked to find it’s a 9% abv, felt like a lightweight for a tripel. Was a nice treat, one that I shal soon indulge in again.

Pours light like other tripels. Very sweet and better than other trips ive had. Spices are noticable. Im not a huge fan of the style but this is better than most.

22oz bottle. Served in a Duvel tulip @ 45°. Light fruits in the aroma, apples & pears, yeast/vanilla, lemon, honeyish malt, some light pepper phenols, soft alcohol, and light floral notes. The beer is golden with active carbonation and a healthy two fingered head and visible sediment in the bottom of the bottle. The initial taste is sweet malt, almost honeyish, with some juicy pear followed by a rush of herbal, earthy hops flavor that seems a little out of place as well as some black pepper that lingers into the finish. The finish is very dry, almost astringent. Not sure if the finish is bitterness, hot alcohol, phenols or a combination of all three, but it is unwelcome. I was beginning to think that Southern Tier could do no wrong...

This was actually one of the more disappointing beers I have had from Souther Tier...usually I really like their stuff. Pours clear gold with no head whatsoever. Mild fruity aroma with just a little bit of spice. I thought the beer tasted a little hot. Sweet malty flavor, hides the 9% well, but just not a fan.

Pour of clear gold, skirted with a wisp of white. Dry grass, pilsner malt, honey, pear and pineapple in the aroma; some funky perfume and strange spicing of sesame and orange peel. Slightly doughy but thin for the most part. Flavor is floral and alcoholic, with hints of adhesive, rotted pistachios and sourdough, and something like saffron, seeming to present mostly the poorer qualities of the style, and that very bitterly and synthetically; overexerted filtering seems to have fully suffocated the nuances of the yeasts that are so important in a well made tripel. Herbs, bubblegum, and golden fruits in the mid palate. Sticky and tinny metallic palate; light to medium in body and quite hot. Finishes with white wine and honey; cloying. A good example of the limitations of generic, hopped to hell American craft brewing when it comes to these delicate Belgian styles; Southern Tier is a fine brewing company but this example is just quite poorly done. Thanks Pete!