Tröegs Naked Elf

Brewed by Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania USA

Bottled as Scratch 21. Big thanks to machfive55. Hazy amber range with a quickly fading white head. Complex aroma leads with yeast and licorice, caramel, alcohol, and apricots are there, too. Flavor blends a dry, cellar yeasty must with pronounced heat and spiciness, especially cinnamon. Big Red chewing gum is an apt comparison. The backbone carries some banana and fig. Medium bodied, quite warming, lowish carbonation, somewhat dry.

Bottle courtesy of Secret Santa. Thanks Santa. Pours a nice reddish brown with a small white head. Aroma is fruits, spices, caramel, esthers, bubble gum, banana, cherries, and bread. Flavor is cherries, caramel, banana, spices, caramel, bread, candi sugar. Nice spiciness in the finish and not too sweet.

bottle received as extra from mikereaser (BA). Labeled Scratch 21-2009. Pours a cloudy, dark amber with a very thin white head. Nose is of spices and perfume, bread and slight fingernail polish. Taste is of spice and bubblegum. Mouthfeel is medium.

Bottle from hopdog. Thanks! Nose is rather sweet with gum, banana, apple, cotton candy. Cloudy red orange. No head. Somewhat murky. Apple and banana are predominant aspects of the flavor. Some malty sweetness - caramel, sugary bread. A little sharpness in finish. Lightly noticeable alcohol. Zesty carbonation.

Wow. Hugely sweet beer. Had a serving from a bottle as Scratch 21 at Barcade. A rich amber color with basically no head. Slightly fruity aroma with malty notes. Taste rings with honey sweetness with aspects of sweet flavors like raisin, fig, and cherry. Beer felt thick, almost syrupy, and was wonderful to sip slowly. Warming on the way down. Very nice.

12 oz bottle purchased as Troegs Scratch 21 from Capones. Pours a deep dark orangey amber with a smaller foamy white head that quickly and almost totally disipates. Aroma is all malts and yeast, fruity as well that reminds me of a Belgian and finishes with some alcohol. Fuller bodied with strong carbonation and a rather dry finish. Flavor is yeasty with notes of dry toast, cereal ad spice. This one does have a good dose of alcohol warming especially for only being 6.8%. Not bad but when it comes to different variations of Mad Elf give me the barrel aged version over this one any day.

Pours a dark ruby red/ chestnut brown with dark golden orange hues when held to a light source. Half finger off-white head that immediately fades away into a minimal splotchy white cap. Bready/yeasty aroma with pilsner malt notes and nice spicy/peppery presence. Although the cherries and honey are removed the yeast strain still provides a dark fruit aroma. Slightly medicinal. Nice medium body with creamy yesty bready mouthfeel. Soft tight carbonation with nice spiciness, subtle hops and syrupy medicinal palate with slightly sweet dry finish. Nice peppery spicy notes with yeasty/bready body and sweet dark fruit notes. Dark cherries, plum, date, raisin, fig, etc. subtle hops, syrupy medicinal notes and dry slightly alcohol astringent finish.

[2387-20090801] Sample. Banana yeast aroma has some mild fruity malt. Hazy, amber red body with a medium-lasting foamy light yellow head. Banana yeast malt continues in the flavour. Medium body. Average.
(BCTC @ Ommegang; Cooperstown, NY)