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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Cask at Akkurat. Amber with a small white head, Rather bitter and soapy, not the smoothness i expect in a british cask ale.
Tried from Cask on 18 Jun 2011 at 06:46

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Draft @ Akkurat. Pours golden with a white head. Quite anonymous aroma. Very refreshing beer with a nice long pilsener-like bitterness. Smooth. I would like to drink a few of this in the sun.
Tried from Draft on 18 Jun 2011 at 04:10

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Cask@Akkurat, Stockholm. Amber colour with a minor head. Aroma is caramel malts, some toffee, mild nuttyness as well as some bitterness lurking. Flavour is toffee, caramel malts, some wood and mild fruity and earthy notes. Quite pleasant fruity and floral bitterness in the finish.
Tried from Cask on 07 Jun 2011 at 00:42

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(Cask at Cask Pub & Kitchen, Pimlico, London, 20 May 2011) Golden colour with frothy, white head. Fruity nose with notes of apricots, pineapples and honey. Fruity, hoppy taste with citrus, pineapple, apricots, biscuity malt and fresh grassy hops in the finish. Medium body, fairly sweet. Deceptively drinkable for its strength. Quite nice.
Tried from Cask on 04 Jun 2011 at 07:05

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Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Hazy golden, fruity spicy nose. Mid sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Honey, grains and hay. Surprisingly big and fruity summer ale, mild growing bitterness. For rainy summer days I presume.
Tried from Cask on 04 Jun 2011 at 01:06

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask at The Plough and Harrow, London. A nut-brown beer with a thin tan head. The aroma has notes of malt and nuts as well as lighter notes of lemon. The flavor is sweet with notes of citrusy hops, malt, and nuts, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried from Cask on 03 Jun 2011 at 13:27

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(Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Golden colour with brief, white head. Fruity nose with citrus, apricots, lemon peel and freshly cut grass. Fruity taste with notes of citrus, apricots, biscuity malt, grapefruit and a generous citrussy bitterness in the finish. Rather light body, with just a touch of sweetness. Fresh, tasty and highly drinkable. Nice one.
Tried from Cask on 31 May 2011 at 13:44

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Hazy golden. Fruity spicy hay aroma. Light bodied with rounded mouthfeel. Freshening spicy, hay-like hops backed by slender but vital malt. Long, balanced bitterness. A refreshing, tasty cask blond ale.
Tried from Cask on 30 May 2011 at 13:46

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Cask at The Old Thameside Inn near London Bridge. Pours hazy gold with a foamy near-white head. Aroma approaches peach. Flavor is floral and fruity and moderately bitter. Lushly fruity. Nice.
Tried from Cask on 24 May 2011 at 11:45

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12th May 2009
Very dark brown beer, light just passes through. Seme dry palate. Low carbonation. Roasty malt and bittering hop, not much else. A bit of an effort.
Tried on 22 May 2011 at 06:12