Barrel & Bean
Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
7.40
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Barrel & Bean starts its life as our Tripel—a Belgian-style golden ale. We age that beer in bourbon barrels for just shy of two months, before blending it with cold-brewed coffee from Speckled Ax, a Maine coffee roaster. The sun-dried Ethiopian beans in the coffee are known for their stone fruit and dark berry flavors. The finished beer features rich notes of caramel, bourbon, and coffee.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft sampled at The Bad Apple, Chicago. Pours clear dark golden with an off white head. Aroma of coffee upfront, suprising given the color, behind is the bourbon/vanilla with booze, toffee and caramel. Flavour is heavy sweet and light bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Oct 2013
at 19:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
On draft at the Big Hunt in DC. Pours a cloudy gold with an off white head. Light butterscotch aroma. Flavors of caramel with some smoky notes. Smooth mouth feel with moderate carbonation. Bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Aug 2013
at 14:52
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft @ Prohibition Pig. Aroma is nice fresh ground coffee bean and a bourbon undertone. Taste is mostly bold, intense coffee beans. Again bourbon comes through in nuances. Seems to have traces of the base brew underneath this coffee and bourbon. Lingering coffee after each sip. I really enjoy coffee infused beers, this happens to be a standout in my recent memory. And using a Tripel base with coffee is really interesting.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Jul 2013
at 20:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Sampled at EBF. Pours a hazy come with some creamy, white head. Big coffee nose, chocolate, caramel, malt. Smells and tastes like coffee. Other flavors of brown sugar, nuts, a little maple, sugary. Full bodied, but dry, nutty finish. I was surprised by this on many levels. Doesn’t taste like it looks.
Tried
on 21 Mar 2013
at 18:26
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Brewers Choice. Pours hazy orange. Nice aromas of fresh roasted coffee and vanilla. you get lots of coffee upfront kinda overpowering. also get some vanilla, straw, pineapple, peat, yeast, ginger, and some sweet bourbon. kinda ll over the place with alcohol warming on finish
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Mar 2013
at 13:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pizzeria Paradiso, Alexandria tap: Pours a light coppery color with a white head. Aroma is straight up coffee beans (ground up and fresh), with a little bit of whiskey, and somewhere deep in there is a tripel. Taste is straight up coffee beans, which is pretty crazy, because this beer looks nothing like what it tastes. Vanilla is present as well. This beer is just nuts and even weirder than the Curieux.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Mar 2013
at 19:47
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at Churchkey. Murky orange gold color, small white edge head, solid lacing. Aroma of intense freshly roasted coffee beans. Taste is smooth coffee, vanilla, straw, pineapple. Coffee and whiskey, and interesting mix.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Aug 2012
at 18:02