Valley Brew Decadence 10

Brewed by Valley Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Stockton, California USA

Noogfest ’08, thanks beerguy101. The body was hazy yellow. The aroma was sweet pancakes and peaches. The taste was sweet pears with some cinnamon spice. A nice fruity finish.

Appearance: Pours a hazy, yellow body with a small, fizzy, white head. Smell: Sweetish, rather lemony aroma with lesser notes of soft pale malts, candi sugar, and rising dough. Taste: Bready pale maltiness with a sweetish honey-like taste. Slight sour yeastiness. Mild, spicy bitterness. Sweet-n-sour finish. Fairly lemony throughout. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Slight stickiness. Drinkability: I’m sold. It’s the lemons that did it.

This pours a clear gold. It’s definitely dry. There are sharp grassy hops in the aroma still. Good.

Pours a slightly hazy golden yellow color with a white head. Aroma is spicy, coriander, pilsner malts, and a peppery hop finish. Flavor is pilsner malts, honey, grain, spice, and a peppery finish.

thanks to beerguy101 for sharing at noogfest 089. a very nice combo of fruity and tangy, this is a tasty trippel.

NorCal Feb ’08 - Easily one of the mightiest tripel’s I’ve tasted to date. If all tripel’s were this good, I might actually start looking at them more closely. This was just sublime. I was able to get some from a bottle that was from ’06 (if I remember correctly). A nice floral, honeyish sweet nose, yeast and fresh peach/apricots abound. The beer looked damned near perfect in all of it’s golden yellow beauty. A nice three finger thick head started to dissipate into a 1/2 thick head that stayed the entire time I was drinking it. Smooth and creamy on the palate, yet alive and bubbly...never overdone. Flavor is VERY fruit forward, with a ton of summer fruit coming out. If you didn’t know any better, you could swear apricot and peach juice had been added to the beer in secondary. Alcohol was kept well in check, and I was told that the alcohol might be even higher now than the original 10.8%. Amazing beer. One of my favorites of the night.

bomber thanks to krausenjockey....pours a mostly transparent golden orange with a think film of white head....oranges, spices, and a general sweetness make up the nose.....the sweetness continues on in the flavor along with the aforementioned spicy orange and more of an intensified candied sugar. a little hot but that’s no biggie....i’m not a huge fan of triples but this one ain’t bad. not bad at all.

15 DEC 07, Southeast YeHa. 22oz bottle. pours clear golden yellow. smells like a floral Belgian Tripel. Sweet character. Finish with a nice bitterness. Off for a Tripel. Tastes like a Belgian yeasted Pale Ale.