Trade Winds
The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Tripel Summer Out of Production|
Score
7.16
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Tripel Belgian-Style Ale Brewed with Rice and Thai Basil
Our Summer seasonal, Trade Winds Tripel is a Belgian-style Golden Ale with a Southeast Asian twist. Instead of using candi sugar (typical for such a beer), we use rice in the mash to lighten the body and increase the gravity, and spice with Thai Basil. The result is an aromatic, digestible and complex beer made for a lazy summer evening.
Our Summer seasonal, Trade Winds Tripel is a Belgian-style Golden Ale with a Southeast Asian twist. Instead of using candi sugar (typical for such a beer), we use rice in the mash to lighten the body and increase the gravity, and spice with Thai Basil. The result is an aromatic, digestible and complex beer made for a lazy summer evening.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml bottle, Vintage 2016. Bottle from Sklep Impuls.pl. No tej bazylii nie za wiele, ale podstawe slodowa z ryzu czuc. Piana spora, metnosc rowniez, bardzo Metne, tresciwe, Ogolnie dobre, choc bez szalu, no i szkoda tez ze jakos bez tej mojej bazylii. No ale nic to mam na okienku:)
Tried from Bottle on 13 May 2022 at 22:50
Tried from Bottle on 13 May 2022 at 22:50
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2026
at 18:58
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2025
at 18:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 750 ml, courtesy of Mandar. Hazy orange with medium white head. Malty, ripe fruit, estery, some banana, tad spicy, yeasty. Moderate sweetness. Low carbonation. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2022
at 18:27
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle, Vintage 2016. No tej bazylii nie za wiele, ale podstawe slodowa z ryzu czuc. Piana spora, metnosc rowniez, bardzo Metne, tresciwe, Ogolnie dobre, choc bez szalu, no i szkoda tez ze jakos bez tej mojej bazylii. No ale nic to mam na okienku:)
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2022
at 20:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can (born 4/25/19) pour from Total Wine & More, Burlington. Appearance is lightly hazy gold-light brown with light sparkle, finger-width white foamy head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is strong (from over a foot away) herbal/spicy--almost ginger--basil, fruity ester, tart fruit. Taste is spicy herbal fruity ester, mild tart. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, average-to-lively carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, an interesting take on a tripel with the lighter body from the rice and the spiciness from the Thai Basil.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jan 2020
at 22:49
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Big bottle Glasbanken 2020-01-12 Hemsedal AR: Belgian yeasty, banana foam, wee basil AP: hazy coppery, wee ofwhite. foam F: Belgian yeasty, banana foam, wee basil
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2020
at 14:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from Antenna America. Basil, lemon, booze, tripel sweetness, grainy. Everything you'd expect from a tripel but something not quite there for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:02
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pour is a almost clear dull gold with a large white head. Aroma is triple Belgian yeast ester with some herbal basil in the backround. Flavor is more dry cracker malt with a nice ester, some bubble gum sweetness and again a herbal finish. Not much of a aftertaste but it leaves you ready for the next sip. Decent triple. Lots of yeast esters and there was probable just the right amount of basil, just enough to let you know it's there but it did not get in the way of the base beer.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2019
at 22:30
5/10
Tried
on 28 Feb 2019
at 16:07
Been standing for years in room temp. and lit up
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2018
at 03:10