Weyerbacher Merry Monks Ale

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Abbey Tripel
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

From a bottle poured a hazy golden color with a large head. spicy malty flavor with a bit of alcohol burn in the finish.

Hazy golden color. Aroma is citrusy, full of spices and yeast. Taste is sweeter with fruits, and some yeast in the back end. Leaves a little bit of a bite in the aftertaste. There’s really not a big alcohol present in this one even though it’s just slightly over 9%. Not a bad beer. I love how happy the monks look on the bottle.

Had this out of the bottle. You can’t go wrong with this one. Highly carbonated with some banana flavors. Moderately sweet with a fruity aroma. I wouldn’t want to drink more than one in a given session, but it is decent change of pace. The alcohol is well hidden though I did feel a slight burn with my first sip.

Bottle from Chevy Chase Wine & Liquors in DC. Pours a hazy golden color with a fizzy white head. Aroma is banana, clove, wheat, yeast. Flavor is wheaty and yeasty with banana, clove, honey, Asian pear and other light fruits, as well as some alcohol. Body is medium-light and carbonation is high. Overall, pretty good. Not really to style though since it seems a little more like a strong German hefeweizen than a trippel.

Enjoyed via draft in a tulip glass. The beer pours a very hazy straw-colored yellow. The level of yeast in the glass turns a drinker off visually, even a veteran homebrewer used to yeast-derived haze. Unacceptable in a commercial beer. Aromas of banana come through in the nose, giving more hints of a German hefeweizen than a tripel. The palate is very estery, with tropical fruits dominating the flavor profile. A touch of malt character is detectable, but muted by the aggressive esters. Overall, a disappointment.

12 ounce bottle - $2.49 at Total Wine & More in Atlanta, Georgia. Appearance: Pours a hazed, faintly effervescent, dark yellow body with a smallish, though fairly lasting, white head. Smell: Sweet-scented pils malts dosed with even more quality sugar and punctuated by notes of fruits, spices, and top-shelf alcohol. Taste: Delicately grainy pilsner and pale maltiness with a jolt of sugared sweetness and minor hint of wildflower honey. Fruity taste of pears and, to a lesser degree, some unripened banana. Even a tiny blip of fine, fresh lemon emerges upon slight warming. Spicy, pepperlike clove along with the apparent alcohol character land midway in the taste and carry you on their chiseled, hulking shoulders to the dry, crisp finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-plus, smooth body. Medium-high carbonation. Drinkability: Worth a shot! While not among the top tier of tripels for me, it’s no slouch either, and one of the better American-born tripels out there.

The appearance is a hazy yellow. Head is like fizzy pop (or soda for you non WNYers), that disintegrates into a film. Color is the same yellow as the middle traffic light, with some orange. Glows from within. Tiny amount of carbonation. The smell is orange peel, coriander. Effervescent spiciness in the nose. Tangy citrus. Pretty typical Belgian golden flavor. Sweet citrus balances the more harsh Belgian stuff. The taste is white wine and wild yeasts, orange, citrus. Pretty typical Belgian golden flavor. Sweet citrus balances the more harsh Belgian stuff. The feel is fizzy like champagne, and also syrupy. A bubbly bite on the way down. Fizzy, citrusy, sweet and strong. A decent offering.

Bottle from Secret Santa, thanks! Blonde, hazy. Strong peararoma with a hint of Poire Williams you can also find in fresh Duvel. Flavor initially has pear fruit. Perfumed with some alcohol. Flowers in the aftertaste. Quite drinkable triple, maybe a bit too perfumed.