Trifecta Belgian Style Tripel

On tap at the brewhouse as part of a flight of everything they offered! Pours a hazy straw with limited white collar. Moderate spice and alcohol.

Tap at the brewpub. Pours translucent gold with a white head. Aroma is banana, bready and a hint yeasty. Flavor is similar to aroma, but there’s a pervading slightly sweet fruitiness, and a yeast spice - clove? Finishes towards dry, seems to loosely fit the style, and enough bitter to please me. Good!

On tap at Blue Palms (labeled at 11%). Pours with a very muddy and unappealing dull yellow body with minimal head (didn’t transport well?). Looks like a mimosa. Aromas are very yeasty, grassy, apple, grainy, mild phenol and florals. Some alcohol. Flavors are grassy, yeasty, grainy. Medium esters, orange marmalade and a bit of 4VG. Low carbonation with some alcohol. A bit oily on the palate.

22oz bottle-pours a dissipating white head and hazy yellow color. Aroma is dry/yeasty, barn, light malt-toasty. Taste is dry/yeasty, apricot, barn, sweet light malt.

Bottle. Amber beer with an off-white head. Fruity ester aroma with light yeast. yeast and malt flavor with light caramel and summer fruit. Medium-plus bodied. Fruit, malt, and light yeast lingers.

A golden ale with a thin white head. A very fruity aroma, volatile esters, pineapple, clove cake, warm and enticing. In mouth, a sweet candy sugar with notes of mint, oranges and warming alcohol. Medium bodied. On tap at brewpub August 2007.

Marks are a fusion of two ratings: one on draught, one bottled. Little yellowish head, gone in secs, over orange-copper beer, visibly well-carbonated. Citrussy notes, some exotic fruit and alcohol on the draught version; bottled is less fruity, drier with some sugar and a cheesy aroma. The draught version is almost too fruity in taste, as well as sweet (melon, tangerine). The bottled version is again less fruity, if not less sweet: cake bottom, caramel and some exotic spice; whilst the draught carries proof of a strange sugar (maybe the sage honey). The beer is medium to well-bodied, but especially the draught one I thought not well-attenuated enough. I get, once more, impression of high fermentation temperatures. Todd, you of all people wouldn’t go for the caricature of the Belgian, no?