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Triumph Bengal Gold India Pale Ale 3.29 98

Triumph Bengal Gold India Pale Ale


Percentile
74
overall

bottling
unknown

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
983.33/5.03.29/5.06.1%44.6Shaker, Tulip
Commercial Description:
This special India Pale Ale was first brewed in honor of Princeton University's 250th anniversary and Triumph Brewing Company's first. It's a crisp, hoppy, high gravity ale. The high hopping rate and hefty alcohol content, once used to preserve this ale on the long ocean voyage to India, now provide it with a distinct aroma and robust flavor.
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 JB175 (1664), Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Nov 11, 2006  
Draught @ New Hope. Light Golden color with medium head. Piney-citrus aroma. Taste is nice, hoppy, with some sweet malt flavor. Hop flavor/feel starts out nice, but fades quickly. Average IPA - fresh, but nothing special. They could do alot to improve this one.


 jason (1626), Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/102/514/20
Oct 14, 2006  
draft at the brewery. Decent aroma and appearance with a nice head to it. Flavor is good and well balanced but not as hoppy as I like an IPA to be.


 scraff (1955), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Sep 25, 2006  
This batch had it goin on (Princeton location). Light amber, creamy white head. Nose was piney and pink grapefruit-like, with softer touches of fuzzy fruit and caramel. Good up front hop bitterness with just slight hints of sweet malt in the end. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry bitter finish. Real nice session IPA...


 xproudfoot (729), Paleolithic, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/512/20
Aug 20, 2006  
On tap - NHope. Funky odd aroma. translucent golden amber with tight lacing. funky faint hop barn aroma. IPA metal hops, bitter, not much sweet. grapefruit. some bitter finish. lemon apple. mismatch of hops and malt, wrong hop mix or infusion procedure, or something else makes this a quite mediocre IPA to my palate.


 Eyedrinkale (3209), Astoria, New York, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/105/55/104/511/20
Jun 18, 2006  
Draft at Princeton. Nice gold color with a solid, 5 minute head. Not much in the aroma except a faint amount of citrus. Taste is dry hops and too sweet malts. Not very good.


 illinismitty (1801), Nashville, Tennessee, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Apr 27, 2006    Updated: Sep 28, 2006
RERATE 9-28-06. Draft at Princetone, and I must say this is far better than the sample I had a few months back. Pours amber with a frothy white head. Aroma of grapefruit, pine, and hop cones. Nice pale malt backbone to the hop bitterness, which is fruity and grassy. Soft carbonation. Some dryness on the finish. This is like a harvest ale. I wonder if this recipe has changed, or that I just had a fresh sample. Because the first one I had was a 3.2. This is far better.


 Beerdedone (1888), Croydon, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/514/20
Apr 25, 2006  
Sampled at New Hope location. Pours copper with a decent white head. Aroma of citrus and hops. Flavor is sweet with a hoppy bitter finish. I am not a fan of IPA beers, but this isnt bad.


 hophead75 (1964), Boonton, New Jersey, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/57/103/514/20
Mar 25, 2006  
4 oz taster. aroma is slight citrus and earthy, taste is with slight bitterness up front, a good malt backbone, and slightly bitter finish. A very drinkable IPA.



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