9 Belgian Tripel
Brouwerij West in San Pedro, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.50
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Our Tripel pours a hazy deep gold with a creamy head. Upfront aromas of fresh plums, orange, white flowers and a hint of hay evolve into aromas of caramel malt and cola as the glass warms. A very balanced flavor profile and a creamy mouthfeel lead into a light malt sweetness with a final transition into a hint of warming alcohol and soft drying bitterness.
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4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Hope this is a bad bottle because onion peel and burnt matches are not common to this style. Olfactif à fond de levure et aux notes de pain frais et de céréales. De très subtiles notes herbacées peinent è ressortir dû au manqué de puissance. De minuscules particules en suspension se baladent dans un liquide doré / ambré, coiffé d’une bonne mousse crémeuse qui s’affaisse trop rapidement. Impression de terre humide en attaque, dominé par une acidité légère mais dérangeante. Une sensation d’allumette brulée et de pelure d’oignon. J’ai l’impression que cette bouteille a soit, mal vieilli, ou présente un problème de fermentation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2015
at 18:05
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Cloudy golden yellow color, small white head. Aroma of straw and light cardboard, candy. Taste is candy, straw. Sweet stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2014
at 10:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
New Beer Distributors, NYC 50cl: Pours golden with a white head. Aroma is mildly spicy, somewhat yeasty, and fruity. Taste is much in the same category. There is not so much a traditional tripel taste as it that of a Belgian blonde. Not to say that this is a bad thing. Mild hoppiness. Not particularly interesting.
Tried
on 30 Mar 2014
at 12:32
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Pours orange gold with white head. Nose and taste of alcohol soaked fruits, yeast, booze and apple skin. Medium body. A bit too boozy for my tastes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2013
at 11:39
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours deep hazy gold into a tulip. Soapy white head with medium retention recedes to mottle surface. Sweet yeast, grass, bandaid and tropical fruit aromas. Medium bodied and vegetal with sourdough and caramel front to back. Dry lasting earth finish.
Tried
on 23 Oct 2013
at 14:57
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
50cl bottle pours a translucent orange with some spitty, white head. Nose is sugary, almost a little lemon pound cake, orange. Flavor has more of that pound cake, sweet candy, tropical fruit. Sweet finish. So so.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2013
at 09:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Poured a clear, pale orange color with a wispy white head. Aroma was spicy malts, hops, earthy notes, some funky yeast. Flavor was sweet malts, earthy notes, with notes of yeast. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2013
at 13:01
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Hazy Light Orange, Medium Frothy Head, Decent Lacing. Mostly Yeast Aroma. Taste of Malt, Sweet, Yeast, Alcohol Zing. Yet Another Easy Drinker . OK. Worth A Shot...
Tried
on 18 Oct 2013
at 20:14
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a bright golden with a white head. Aroma is some fruityness with lots of candi sugar. Flavor is again with some fruit. Finish is grassy hops and kinda bitter. Just an ok triple. Maybe using another yeast strain would have done better things for me. Nothing really came out for me with the one and it is super dry.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Dec 2012
at 17:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Hazy deep copper coloured body with an orange glow and a thin, one centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of pale malt, yeast, coriander seed, curacao, hay, grass and a bit of alcohol. Medium-bodied; Strong yeast flavour at first then showing some wheat, alcohol, earth, caramel and a hint of the coriander seed and a tiny amount of citrus. Aftertaste is a bit complex with the yeast and alcohol coming through mostly and a hint of sweetness and a twinge of spices near the end. Overall, excited to try this, but it didn’t deliver in the way I’d expect - a fairly one dimensional tripel with some decent flavours but nothing overwhelming. I sampled this 50 cL bottle purchased from Olive Tree Market Place in San Diego, California on 01-May-2012 for US$6.49 sampled at home in Washington on 29-November-2012.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2012
at 23:26