Triple Exultation
Eel River Brewing Company in Fortuna, California, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular|
Score
7.07
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Traditionally, Old Ales are an English style of dark, rich and sweet ale, typically with flavors of soft currant fruit and blackstrap molasses. While Old Ales typically have IBUs (bitterness) of 30-65, Eel River Brewing put their own spin on the style by adding extra hops to ramp up the IBUs to 80!
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 650ml @ home
Pours dark reddish brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, oxidization, dried fruits, citrus and orange. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and medium to heavy bitter with a long caramel, dried fruits, orange, citrus, oxidized with a weak hint of licorice in the finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours dark reddish brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, oxidization, dried fruits, citrus and orange. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and medium to heavy bitter with a long caramel, dried fruits, orange, citrus, oxidized with a weak hint of licorice in the finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2016
at 16:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle, 22oz. 2015 vintage. A murky brown beer, almost flat and headless. Some off-white bubbles though. Heavy malt aroma with prunes, oxidation, some berries and quite evident traces of hops. Toffee, some roasted malts and chocolate, a nice hoppy bitterness, raisins, some prunes and brown sugar. Full body and very smooth on the palate, with little carbonation. Some warmth. Hints of licorice in the finish, as well as all the other goodness found in the initial flavor. An intense beer, but sure nice. 160102
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2016
at 09:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Vintage 2009 - Cocoa and dark sugary malts. Deep cloudy copper brown with a decent beige head. Dark sugars, burnt notes and light bitterness. A bit of spice and light boozy notes. Held up well for 5 years.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2015
at 19:53
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a hazy golden burnt orange to caramel brown color with a thin layer of a white head. Once the head died down, there was some light stringy lacing here and there.
The smell had some light burnt raisins along with some caramel malts. There’s a light brown sugar trying to make an effort to flow forth but it mainly stays subdued.
The taste was mainly sweet but had an element of sour sweet candy which was the same aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat right at a medium on the body with a tad of sessionability about it. The carbonation was subdued but still good for its style.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good old ale.
The appearance was a hazy golden burnt orange to caramel brown color with a thin layer of a white head. Once the head died down, there was some light stringy lacing here and there.
The smell had some light burnt raisins along with some caramel malts. There’s a light brown sugar trying to make an effort to flow forth but it mainly stays subdued.
The taste was mainly sweet but had an element of sour sweet candy which was the same aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat right at a medium on the body with a tad of sessionability about it. The carbonation was subdued but still good for its style.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good old ale.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Aug 2014
at 23:25
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Pours dark brown with a large lasting head.Nose shows golden syrup, booze, fruitcake, figs, brown sugar and cognac. Lovely.Similarly rich flavours. More booze though, a little hot. Loads of golden syrup, bordering on a bit too sweet.Lovely creamy carbonation and rich body.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2014
at 05:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bomber from BevMo Salinas. Nose is toffee, hints of pine and molasses, and some very light background roast. Clear rust with a medium, heavy lacing beige head. Flavor is lightly sweet, lightly bitter with notes of tobacco and roast.
Tried
on 13 May 2013
at 20:09
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Slightly hazy pour of dark brown under a creamy off-white head. Aroma of toffee and molasses. The flavor is sweet on the front with some moderate hop bitterness building into the finish. Decent Old Ale, but not overly complex.
Tried
on 27 Apr 2013
at 17:40
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22oz bottle picked up at Lee’s in Mesquite
Appearance: Pours clear dark brown with a medium sized beige head and good lacing
Aroma: Dark ripe fruit, toffee and leather
Taste: Dark fruit, toffee, whiskey with a bitter finish
Nice, sipper. Some hot alcohols but not overpowering.
Appearance: Pours clear dark brown with a medium sized beige head and good lacing
Aroma: Dark ripe fruit, toffee and leather
Taste: Dark fruit, toffee, whiskey with a bitter finish
Nice, sipper. Some hot alcohols but not overpowering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2013
at 21:50