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.
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.
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Harp. Dark amber colour with frothy off white head. Aroma is sweet and yeasty, bit of grainy malt too. Taste is yeasty, touch of fruit and some malt. Quite boozy feeling considering it is only 5%. Not wild about it, but was perfectly ok. --- Beer merged from original tick of Comfortably Numb on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:06 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Cask at the Harp. Dark amber colour with frothy off white head. Aroma is sweet and yeasty, bit of grainy malt too. Taste is yeasty, touch of fruit and some malt. Quite boozy feeling considering it is only 5%. Not wild about it, but was perfectly ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at GBBF 2014. Pours clear dark golden with an off white head. Aroma: biscuit malts, fruity, hoppy. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, stone fruits & citrus. Very dry bitter finish. Light to medium body with light carb
Tried
from Cask
on 27 May 2019
at 14:33
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Lincoln beer festival. Amber colour with a tan head. Aroma and taste are sweet and malty. Medium body.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 May 2019
at 23:34
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Cask gravity at Planet Thanet 2019. Clear orange gild colour no condition. It's an OK light bitter. Light malt fruit. Some bitterness on the finish. Light bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2019
at 17:16
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
[Cask at the Bell, Waltham St Lawrence.] A bright golden amber pour with a tight cream head; malty aroma; zingy malty taste with a touch of orange zest and a creamy body; then a firm but gentle earthy bitterness. A nice malty bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Mar 2019
at 16:26
5/10
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Mar 2019
at 13:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ Craft Beer Co - Clerkenwell, 82 Leather Lane, Clerkenwell, Greater London, England EC1N 7TR. [ As Triple fff Forbidden Fruit ].Clear medium amber colour with a small, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, nutty, caramel, fruity malt, light to moderate hoppy, pine, citrus, orange, dried fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, caramel, hop bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20170122] 7-3-7-3-14
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Feb 2019
at 17:37
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
From cask at Williams Ale & Cider House, Spitafields, London, 10.01.19. Served in perfect condition. Clear golden. Foamy, white head and lacing. Aroma and taste of American hops, citrus, lychee, pineapple, pine and pale malt. A solid bitterness is lingering on. Good!
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Jan 2019
at 17:08
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at PoW, Farnborough. Floral and malt aroma. Frothy off-white head. Bronze. Medium bitter. Hops and herbs. Mesium bodied. Slick. Flat carbonation. Long astringent finish. Suprisngly hoppy. Decent enough if one-noted.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Dec 2018
at 13:35
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
23/11/2018. Cask at the Harwich and Parkeston Winter Ale Festival 2018. Pours dark amber / brown with a small off-white head. Aroma of biscuit, hops, caramel, malt, light herb, and very slightly medicinal. Medium sweetness, light to moderate bitterness. Moderate body, oily texture, soft to flat carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Nov 2018
at 13:28