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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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at the hanging bat... Golden amber.. Small white head... Soft sweet yeasty bready fruits nose.. Soft sweet toffee yeasty... Juicy bready fruits
Tried
on 06 Dec 2018
at 08:35
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Flaska från beergium drucken med ölföreningen. Belgostrigt jästig, honung, ljus torkad frukt, aprikos, säd, örter med en liten touch basilika. Rund och len, Komplex för stilen. Mycket gott.
Tried
on 13 Oct 2018
at 17:54
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2016 Edition, abv. 8,6%. An orange beer, a head is and almost white. Aroma is strongly aromatic, flowers, almost perfume, lime, also other fruitness, complex spicyness, interesting. Taste has aromatic flowers, lime, interesting spicyness. Medium bodied, balanced carbonation. interesting spicyness and nicely aromatic.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2018
at 17:07
7/10
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Tried
on 09 Sep 2018
at 13:43
7/10
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Tried
on 09 Sep 2018
at 13:43
EB. Hazy Bruery Bonanza memories. --- Beer merged from original tick of Trade Winds Tripel on 27 Aug 2018 at 10:10. Original review text: EB. Hazy Bruery Bonanza memories.
Tried
on 27 Aug 2018
at 10:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Flaska från beergium drucken med ölföreningen. En i grunden ganska klassisk trippel. Belgostrigt jästig, säd, örter med en liten touch basilika. Komplex för stilen. Mycket gott.
Tried
on 15 Mar 2018
at 08:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bomber, Whole Foods. 2016 edition. Pours hazy pale gold with a large off-white head. Aroma is yeast, basil, grasses, stone fruit, gum. Flavor is nice: stone fruit including bitter peach and apricot, basil, grain, yeast. Lightly floral. Very nice.
Tried
on 05 Jan 2018
at 15:45
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
750 ml bottle on 23rd Dec 2017. Easy drinking Tripel with lots going on. Golden pour, hazy towards the final glass, off-white head on each pour. Aroma has a delicate spicy feel, some floral notes, a yeasty undertone and a mild bubblegum afterthought. The taste was a pleasant mixture of light fruitiness with a citrus leaning, spicy fried rice and yeasty flavours. Liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2017
at 07:48
5.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
From Sept 2008
I bought this bottle from South Bay D&L. Thanks Joey!
750ml capped bottle:
As soon as I popped the cap, the liquid started to slowly gush out of the bottle but I didn't lose a drop.
A hazy, then cloudy, orange gold in colour, I got a 2 finger head of foam with some good lacing. Very nice looking brew.
The smell is very fruity and yeasty and spicy(coriander mostly) and yeah, I can smell the basil that they mention on the label. A good nose.
The taste is very fruity up front. I get notes of pear and some apple tartness but then the spices move in and take control. Coriander tops it along with some basil and there's an overall tartness that tastes lemony to me. It also has some sweetness that's very candy sugar like and overall, the flavours are pleasing but...and I've seen the comments about this and have to agree...this one is *way* over carbonated. Very prickly on the tongue and cuts down on the drinkability and enjoyment big time. Also, I don't think the alcohol is all that well hidden.
This is a light bodied brew, the carbonation, again, is over the top, and it finishes spicy and bitter.
Bottom line: This is my first sampling from The Bruery and well, I'm not very fond of this Tripel and I'm a big fan of well made Tripels. A step in the right direction would be to cut down on the carbonation. That's the one factor in this brew that really made it tough to drink never mind enjoy.
I bought this bottle from South Bay D&L. Thanks Joey!
750ml capped bottle:
As soon as I popped the cap, the liquid started to slowly gush out of the bottle but I didn't lose a drop.
A hazy, then cloudy, orange gold in colour, I got a 2 finger head of foam with some good lacing. Very nice looking brew.
The smell is very fruity and yeasty and spicy(coriander mostly) and yeah, I can smell the basil that they mention on the label. A good nose.
The taste is very fruity up front. I get notes of pear and some apple tartness but then the spices move in and take control. Coriander tops it along with some basil and there's an overall tartness that tastes lemony to me. It also has some sweetness that's very candy sugar like and overall, the flavours are pleasing but...and I've seen the comments about this and have to agree...this one is *way* over carbonated. Very prickly on the tongue and cuts down on the drinkability and enjoyment big time. Also, I don't think the alcohol is all that well hidden.
This is a light bodied brew, the carbonation, again, is over the top, and it finishes spicy and bitter.
Bottom line: This is my first sampling from The Bruery and well, I'm not very fond of this Tripel and I'm a big fan of well made Tripels. A step in the right direction would be to cut down on the carbonation. That's the one factor in this brew that really made it tough to drink never mind enjoy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2017
at 10:04