Weyerbacher Prophecy

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

I wish it said "tripel" anywhere on the bottle. "ALE aged in Oak Barrels" doesn’t exactly indicate tripel. Well, I paid 6.49 for this thing and I’m going to rate it like I see it. Pale yellow with a slight orange tint. Highly carbonated, lots of fine bubbles in a medium head which fades quickly. Funky belgian aroma, bread and butter. More funky yeastly flavor. Lemony sourness. Some vanilla. Sucks.

A rather fleeting white head, but leaving a persisting halo rests above a hazy gold pour. There certainly is an aroma of wood and bourbon, no mistake about it. There’s also some light brown sugar, honey, and maybe some peach and apricot. Smooth, medium/full body with lively fine carbonation. Light toasty malt gives some sweetness, cut by a tangy, sour flavor, and a little bitter spiciness to dry things out a bit. There still is some yeasty sourness in a lasting finish, but what is most interesting is that the oak flavor is what lasts the longest. A bourbon barrel aged Belgian Tripel? Certainly a rather odd concept in my opinion, butI nonetheless I thought this was pretty good.

Poured a hazy gold color with small head which left great lacing. Aroma was of caramel fruits vaniall and oak. Flavor was much the same with an added yeasty flavor to it. Mouthfeel was a little sticky. i was a fan of this one.

Bottle. Pours hazy gold with thin white head that quickly dissipates. Aroma is bourbon, pine, and wood. Flavor is bourbon, wood, herbal, anise, and acrid. I couldn’t finish this beer.

12oz bottle at Zeno’s, State College, PA. Clear yellow and orange hue, still, with almost no head, just a small film above the body. Hot nose, vodka-like fuesal alcohol notes, estery though, with some sweet-scented candy sugar and some strange yeast activity as well. Bitter, piney, sharp on the tongue, sickly and sweet alcohol and fuel all around this one, but lacking proper carbonation. Pretty much a sticky, syrupy, underfermented mess with some small Belgian qualities, and the wood aging doesn’t seem to impart much to this other than a less-than-perfect wood character that stands somewhat far from the beer itself. The alcohol has an apparent rum flavor, though, which is different than most other I would call "similar". Strictly by style this beer fails.

Pours a cloudy gold with a white head. Smells sugary with some woody elements. Taste is very sweet with some woody elements. Way too sugary.

O.K., it’s a Belgian. A cloudy, pale yellow pour with a big white head. The head held up well, but there were no sip lines. It was, uh, pleasant, light bodied and I couldn’t detect a malt or hop characteristic. I didn’t taste any fruit or flowers in this brew but was left with a slightly astringent flavor. Any effects of the oak barrel aging were lost on me. My overall reaction was; light and fluffy and a little gassy.

A really enjoyable beer. Poured a golden color with hints of orange hues, decent initial head that subsided quickly and didn’t lace great (high abv and aged?). The aroma was excellent, lots of light fruits, vanilla, oak, and other things. Flavor followed suit, vanilla at the front, then oak, apples, peaches, even pears. Alcohol warmth included with a lightly carbonated and sticky mouthfeel. A nice treat for me, although it was more like a barleywine than an aged tripel/belgian strong.