Southern Tier Tripel

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

This beer is very lightly colored, crystal clear (ie - not filtered) with nearly no head at all. It is so very hoppy for a tripel - it smells more like an imperial IPA, with slightly more malts perhaps. It does have some interesting spices in the flavor, but again, it is soooo hoppy. It is also very hot and astringent. The alcohol is very evident.

Bottle. Small white head that was mostly lasting with a fair amount of lacing, no visible carbonation, transparent, and a yellow hue. Nose was some hint of licorice, honey, sugary, apples, and alcohol. Flavor was sweet, honey, fruity, and sugary. Smooth mouthfeel. Medium body.

Poured golden with a thin white head. Aroma had cloves, apple and candy fruit. Taste was rather weak for the style. Dissapointing in my opinion.

Pours to a glowing golden body with a thin white head. The aoma is fruity, apples, grassy, yeasty Turkish apricots. The flavor is yeasty, fruity, bananas, buttered pastry, quite hoppy with the noble style... The palate has a grassy characteristic to it. Quite carbonated, smooth body.

Thanks to Blake. light copper orangish color w/ a whispy white head. Spiced nose good amount of yeast notes light peppers. Palate is well coated and full nicely carbonated. Flavor is almsot overly sweet lots of candied sugars and carmels some light fruit notes a bit of a perfume like hop and a light pepper. Pretty Good.

Clear bright orange pour, with no real head to speak of - semi-herbal, fruity aroma of apple, apricot, with some background, grassy hops - quite hoppy and herbal up front, especially for the style - follows with a nearly over-sweet flavor of pear and apple - some slight buttery/oily qualities near the end, but mostly medium-bodied - some alcohol astringency in the finish - not as horrible as some of the more recent ratings suggest, but still not worth a second shot.

I was SO pleased to see some of the other reviews. After having had two of their other brews this month I was really looking forward to this one. I was surprised at how good the other two were; I was surprised at how uninteresting this one was. Appearance was, well, apple juice. Crystal clear golden amber, no head, no lacing; what kind of Belgian tripel is this? Mouoth was dead flat, no carbonation. A little thicker than pasteurized apple juice, but so far Mott would be pleased. At least the aroma is Belgian yeasty tripel. Taste is bready yeasty ... ok ... with a nasty metallic finish ... not ok at all. And yet some of the reviews are so positive and so different from mine. Is this a quality control problem at the brewer?

After having a few of their brews I was looking forward to this. A total letdown. There was a bit of fruity aroma and a touch of some exotic spices but as a Abbey Tripel this was very lacking in any definition. I strained to try to taste anything. Pity.