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Belgian Style Tripel Ale
Stone Brewing
- From:
- Stone Brewing
- California, United States
- Style:
- Tripel
- ABV:
- 8.7%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.84 | pDev: 10.68%
- Reviews:
- 174
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 08, 2021
- Added:
- Aug 21, 2008
- Wants:
- 9
- Gots:
- 8
Collaboration with Mikkeller Brewing and AleSmith Brewing
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.8/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.8/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
12 fl. oz. bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 8.7%. Golden colour, big white head. Lovely aroma of Belgian yeast, fruity esters, spices and floral and fruity hops. The flavour is spicy and yeasty with a sweet and fruity body, and a distinct hoppy bitterness in the finish. Only drawback is that the alcohol is not particularly well hidden, so if you get drunk on this beer, you understand why. Still a beer I’ll be happy to drink again!
May 08, 2021Reviewed by cyrenaica from Canada (ON)
3.36/5 rDev -12.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.36/5 rDev -12.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
12oz bottle
8.7% ABV
The Beerbistro (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
November 13, 2009
The beer poured a hazy translucent gold colour with a thin white head, and detectable yeast. The aroma was combination of yeast, spice, and bready malt. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour was malt, some citrus and licorice tones, and some leather. I was expecting a WHOLE lot more.
Jun 08, 20178.7% ABV
The Beerbistro (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
November 13, 2009
The beer poured a hazy translucent gold colour with a thin white head, and detectable yeast. The aroma was combination of yeast, spice, and bready malt. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour was malt, some citrus and licorice tones, and some leather. I was expecting a WHOLE lot more.
Reviewed by UCLABrewN84 from California
3.45/5 rDev -10.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.45/5 rDev -10.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Thanks to GRG1313 for gifting me this one.
Pours a murky dark orange with a foamy orange-bone head that settles to tiny wisps of film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace slowly drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell is of malt, honey, fruit, spice, and some oxidation aromas. Taste is much the same with fruit, honey, and oxidized flavors on the finish. There is a very mild amount of spice bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer that is showing a fair amount of oxidation and is very honey forward at this point.
May 15, 2013Pours a murky dark orange with a foamy orange-bone head that settles to tiny wisps of film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace slowly drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell is of malt, honey, fruit, spice, and some oxidation aromas. Taste is much the same with fruit, honey, and oxidized flavors on the finish. There is a very mild amount of spice bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer that is showing a fair amount of oxidation and is very honey forward at this point.
Reviewed by BirdsandHops from Oregon
2.57/5 rDev -33.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
2.57/5 rDev -33.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
2008 vintage
A: Pours a hazy orange-gold with less than a finger of white head that fades into a thin ring with no lacing.
S: Some light Belgian spice notes up front followed by candy sugar and sweet orange citrus aromas. Musty graham cracker aromas follow, suggesting some oxidation.
T: Belgian spices up front with some candy sugar flavors. Faint fruit and citrus flavors follow before a strong and slightly bitter yeast flavor kicks in. The finish has some of that musty graham cracker flavor from the oxidation.
M: Medium body with lowish carbonation, this beer is a bit too thick and under-carbonated.
O: Unfortunately I do not think time has been kind to this beer, though it was fun to try.
Feb 07, 2012A: Pours a hazy orange-gold with less than a finger of white head that fades into a thin ring with no lacing.
S: Some light Belgian spice notes up front followed by candy sugar and sweet orange citrus aromas. Musty graham cracker aromas follow, suggesting some oxidation.
T: Belgian spices up front with some candy sugar flavors. Faint fruit and citrus flavors follow before a strong and slightly bitter yeast flavor kicks in. The finish has some of that musty graham cracker flavor from the oxidation.
M: Medium body with lowish carbonation, this beer is a bit too thick and under-carbonated.
O: Unfortunately I do not think time has been kind to this beer, though it was fun to try.
Belgian Style Tripel Ale from Stone Brewing
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
196 ratings
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