Weyerbacher Prophecy

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

My Bottom Line:
This bourbon barrel Tripel is heavy on the bourbon (like many Weyerbacher oak-aged strong ales, I find), but its vanilla sweetness accompanies the pear and apple fruitiness of the Belgian yeast quite nicely, forming a classy yet intense sipper.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A thin veil of foam floats atop the cloudy blond.
-The malts’ honeyed sweetness provide plenty of body to warn the drinker to take smaller sips.
-A greater hop presence in the back would have been appreciated to balance the beer out and facilitate further sips.
-There might be a little too much barrel apport for my tastes, but it remains a fun barrel aging experiment nonetheless.

Bottle.

Bottle. Golden clear colour with a small white head. Fruity aroma with notes of sweetness, oak and apple. Very nice flavour of yeast, sweetness, fruit and alcohol. One of the better US-tripel.

22oz bottle. this beer is an odd slightly flemish sour/tripel thing going on. nose is almost gueze at first but something off about it all. cloyingy sweet, that becomes too much. i wouldn’t mind 4oz of this every now and then. sorry i didn’t take notes while drinking this.

12oz. Bottle: Sweet aroma. Smells of bourbon, alcohol, oak, and apple. Poured golden with a hint of orange in color with a small, off-white head that diminished quickly. No lacing. Medium cloudy. Lightly sparkling. Many small and medium-sized particles. Flavor is medium sweet. Tastes heavily of bourbon and alcohol, with oak an vanilla notes. Full body. Sticky texture. Soft carbonation. Sweet bourbon finish.

Not a bad offering from Weyerbacher, if a bit overpriced (about 3 bux per 12oz at Once Upon a Time, Richmond). Doesn’t taste much like a tripel at all to me - even like their own - but more like a strong Belgian sour aged in oak. Thankfully the oak is just there in the background, which makes it a very pleasant ingredient rather than a roundhouse to the taste buds. Yeasty, tart, slightly effervescent, this is one of their better brews.

Bottled. Golden coloured. Unclear. Dense off white head. Vanilla, light aslcohol, sweetness, spice and yeast in the aroma. The barrelageing is quite notable. Flavour of alcohol, vanillla and other spices, sweetness, yeast and some fruits. Again the barrelnotes very notable. Medium bodied. Dry. Alcholdense and warming fruity end. Thanks jjpm74 for this.

Bottled. Hazy golden coloured. Bourbon and yeast in the aroma and in the flavour. Very sweet. Medium bodied.

Bottle. Light yellow gold body with a medium-sized soapy head. Smells floral with noticeable potpourri spices, some wafting spikes of alcohol, bourbon influence, berries, and clove. Flavour consists of vanilla, bourbon, harsh alcohol heat. Not really much fruit character that I would expect in a Tripel, at least as far as the flavour is concerned. It doesn’t really bring anything interesting to the table on top of the regular Merry Monks.