Triple fff Brewery

Microbrewery in Four Marks, Hampshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 1997

Contact
Unit 3 Magpie Works, Station Approach, Four Marks, Four Marks, GU34 5HN, England
Description
Triple fff launched in 1997 by Graham Trott, a cabinet maker by trade who was a keen home brewer. The most popular question we get asked is 'What is Triple fff?'. As many of you know all our beers (Alton's Pride aside) are either song or album titles. Triple fff in music stands for fortississimo and means very very loud.

He installed a 5 barrel plant (20 casks) in one of the units vacated by the now closed furniture factory on Station Approach in the village of Four Marks. The station still operates on the steam heritage Watercress Line which runs ten miles between Alton and Alresford.

The beer names came from song titles of many of the 60s rock icons, Van Morrison, Led Zeppelin and Cream with Moondance (4.2% ABV), Stairway (4.6% ABV) and the well loved Pressed Rat and Warthog (3.8% ABV). The psychedelic 60s did not spawn a song called Alton Pride (3.8% ABV) but that joined the lyrical portfolio and is our number one seller following its success at 2008’s Great British Beer Festival having been voted Supreme Champion Beer of Britain.

The year 2000 saw an expansion into an 18 Barrel plant and finally in 2006 the brewery became what it is today, a 50 Barrel system that's capable of brewing 160 casks of beer per brew.

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6.5/10
Tried from Cask at Salopian Bar on 11 Jul 2017 at 20:30

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Cask at White Hart, Tongham. Sweet, floral and grassy aroma, if low key. Bright gold. Whisps of a white head. Noticeably a lack of bubbles. Sweet with a light bitter vein running through it. Honey, canned fruit syrup, with spices and herbs. Medium bodied. Sticky. Light carbonation. Long finish, which highlights the bitter element it has. I enjoyed this - I find that lagers can be too saccharine and over carbonated. This was sweet but no chemically so and then pretty flat. Being sat out under the benefited it.
Tried from Cask on 14 Jun 2017 at 09:59

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Cask at Swan, Farnborough. Nil aroma. A light brown. Decent creamy white head.Light bitter with an underlying sweetness. Malts and berries. Tinned fruit. Medium bodied. Short finish. It must have been the texture and carbonation that combined for a silky effect but would have downed it in one, despite the taste itself being subdued. Good one.
Tried from Cask on 24 May 2017 at 13:13

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
How: Cask.
Where: Akkurat, Stockholm.
Appearance: Clear golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Malt, fruit, bread, citrus.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Fruit, malt, hops, caramel.
Tried from Cask on 22 May 2017 at 13:25

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Tried at the Talky Ho. Eversley. Golden colour with a thin white head. Aroma light floral and citrus. Taste light bittersweet. Thin body.
Tried on 29 Apr 2017 at 12:38

From London trip
Tried on 23 Apr 2017 at 18:33

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 7
Cask at PoW, Farnborough. Roast aroma. Glossy, dark with red tints. Creamy beige head, on the thinner side. Initial vague sweetness. Coffee roast bitterness. Dark chocolate in the mix. Some citrus into the finish, but the tangerine is never obvious. Relatively light. Slick. Does gain some creamyness into the finish. Astringent. All rather low key. Not so much a tangerines dream as it is tangerine ennui. Drops points for the astringent finish.
Tried from Cask on 07 Apr 2017 at 13:29

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Pendle Beer Festival 2017. Extremely dark, its tangerine influence is light, but is inoffensive. Feels like a light tasting stout.
Tried on 29 Mar 2017 at 15:54

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask at the Bell, Waltham St Lawrence. An attractive copper coloured beer with a loose white head; old fashioned malty aroma; a citrus taste to start with a biscuit body, then some bitter orange marmalade to finish. A proper best bitter.
Tried from Cask on 23 Feb 2017 at 03:11

5/10
Tried on 13 Feb 2017 at 16:13