Sprecher Abbey Triple

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

Pours orange-golden and slightly hazy with bubbly foam. Aroma is of bananas, clove, vanilla, and a little citrus. Good carbonation. Flavor is sweet with good caramel malt accents. Fruity.

Bottle from Total Wine. Pours a golden-honey with ample carb. Nose is sweet and honied with some hops and a noticeable bouquet of spices. Taste kind of threw me off. More like a carbonated mead at first.....well not THAT sweet, but close. Some clove, hops also sort of turn things around the wrong way on this one. Some citrus and fruit find themselves in here as well. Apparently people like their other stuff. I would like this too if there wasn’t so many other quality Abbey Tripel’s out there.

This beer is decieving. Even though it is golden and somewhat light in color, it is extremley hoppy and leaves a bad aftertaste. Love sprecher but didn’t love this.

Bottle thanks to thirdeye11. The look is clear, golden copper in color, with a whitish head. The smell is banana, fruits, wheat, spices, and yeast. The taste is fruits, sweet, and yeast.

Snagged a couple bottles of this after a tour of the brewpub. Really good stuff, one of their better beers.

Bottle thanks to thirdeye11. Gold in color with a small white head. Aroma is of yeast and citrus. Taste is yeasty with light grain and fruit.

1-Liter Bottle.
2006 vintage or thereabouts; maybe 2005, I’m not sure. All I know is that I’ve had it for a long time, and it was packaged in a nifty, gold-painted-label, swing-top, cobalt-blue one-liter bottle. If only the beer itself was as cool as the packaging. Something tells me this beer did not age well despite the suggestion on the label that it would. Or maybe it was this mediocre the day it rolled out of the brewery, who knows.

Anyway, down to business. Pours a semi-cloudy amber with little bits of yeast floating about. Very little head, though I tried to provoke it with an aggressive pour. Where’s the carbonation? The aroma has plenty of malt and a smattering of earhy hops, along with some off-aromas of cardboard and mild tartness. Unfortunately, the cardboard and a tinge of the tartness showed up in the flavor. Otherwise, it’s a rich, sweet, malty beer with a modest earthy-hop showing. Palate is thick yet flat for the lack of carbonation.

I have a very soft spot for Sprecher and I really want to like this brewery since it was their Black Bavarian schwarzbier that weaned me off of mass-swill and pointed me toward the glory that is craft beer. But every Sprecher product I drink lately forces me a little closer to admitting that they’re a mediocre craft brewery that accidentally got it right with the Black Bavarian.

A very impressive abbey tripel. Has a very good balance of flavor and tingles the palate. The aroma is somewhat lacking but still very good.