Wheat Trippelbock
The Livery in Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Weizen - Weizenbock Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.14
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New batch for 2010 is 11.5% ABV, earlier batches ranged from 11 to 13% ABV
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patrick767 (7169) reviewed Wheat Trippelbock from The Livery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
growler at the RBSG 2010 (thanks BBB63) - Pours dark amber orange with a small head. The aroma is a little sour with lots of malt. The flavor is interesting. It has sweet malt with a sour characteristic and dark fruit. Medium body. Different. Good.
Drake (22934) reviewed Wheat Trippelbock from The Livery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Growler shared by BBB63 at the RBSG Grand Tasting. Thanks! Pours a dark amber color with a thin head. Aroma of toffee, green apple, caramel and a nutty finish. The taste is tart green apple which dominates everything else. Caramel and toffee peak out. Medium bodied. Seems off.
Bullit (6144) reviewed Wheat Trippelbock from The Livery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft @ The Livery. Dark red - brownish colour, off-white head. Aroma is fruity, molasses, toasted malts. Flavour is dark malted, dark fruits, a bit syrupy, molasses, little alcohol burn.
deyholla (22727) reviewed Wheat Trippelbock from The Livery 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap. Poured a hazy deep amber with a yellow hue and a yellowish small head that dissipated slowly. Aroma had a bit of wine and dark fruits with some dark grains and caramel. Flavor began with a wine a dark fruit and was dry as well. Dark grains and caramel grew throughout the drink making it a bit sweeter with the dryness still present.
Silphium (4308) reviewed Wheat Trippelbock from The Livery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled at the 2nd annual Michigan Winter Beer Festival, Lansing. My favorite new beer at the fest. Dark brown body, thin off-white head. Great complexity, with toffee, burnt sugars, banana, and chocolate characterizing the soft, creamy body. Warming alcohol on the finish, slight tartness. I drank about 12 ounces of this in total and could have kept coming back for more. Another one I need to revisit.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Wheat Trippelbock from The Livery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Hand bottled sample from the illustrious BigBadBear himself, shared with OldGrowth on 3/14/06 in a tulip at slightly below room temp
The beer is immensely dark, with a soy sauce-like appearance, quite viscous and with very low carbonation, not enough to form a head, but gives a small, deep tan ring of bubbles, and thick legs/residue on the glass. A small head can be coaxed, however, upon swirling. Unfiltered and nearly opaque.
The nose opens up with strong, warming, sweet and rich molasses, soy, port and the signature weizen yeast fruit (bananas, apples) and of course some bubblegum, though it’s more a cotton candy sweetness, adding a feathery-light, lively note to the otherwise seriously intense sipper. Maple, toffee, and just huge, sweet prunes and rich, amplified caramel. Very strong, and one that you can sit and sniff for hours. If there are flaws in the beer, I find none in the aroma. Even a touch of dry, yeast notes and crusty brown bread. I get a light hint of alcohol at one point, but it is fully passing, and even looking for it, I’m not able to find it again.
The flavor, perhaps, is not quite the sum of the aroma, being a bit too soy-like, almost peanut-pecan-like but otherwise full of rich chocolate, gritty, unfiltered wheat and roasted notes adding a balancing element, with bananas foster, caramelized sugars and tons of raisin, prune and light plum astringency. Extremely low carbonation, but it works perfectly, giving a sweet sherry like mouthfeel, very soothing and nearly-syrupy. The wheat works wonders on the palate, as always, in concert with the chocolate and caramel and even being balanced by light hints of earthy roast. No alcohol whatsoever, in the flavor, even after fully warming and breathing.