Devils Tramping Ground Tripel - Aviator Brewing Company

KYGunner

Kentucky

3.88/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

This is a typical Belgian Tripel, but that's not a bad thing. It poured with a cloudy yellow/orange haze that made the " unfiltered" obvious. Typical banana and clove notes on the aroma it has a pleasant, smooth clovey flavor. Not overpowering, it's nice tasteful and sweet, I enjoyed this Tripel from beginning to end.

Serving type: can

12-02-2012 23:44:21 | More by KYGunner

chinchill

South Carolina

3.44/5  rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

This golden colored tripel has a decent head and lacing. The rather floral aroma features fruity Belgian yeast with, perhaps, a bit less banana/clove and a bit more wheat than usual. The taste is relatively bitter and tart with some sweet balance; more tart than sweet or bitter. Complex. Near medium body; smooth with low (a tad too low?) carbonation.

O: a decent tripel with well hidden alcohol.

Serving type: on-tap

05-12-2013 21:08:44 | More by chinchill

SFNC

North Carolina

4/5  rDev +5%

05-10-2013 23:39:32 | More by SFNC

BEERchitect

Kentucky

3.76/5  rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

With Belgium at heart, the full complexion of this Belgian-styled Tripel Ale is of its fruit and spice balance that plays out over a raw doughy taste.

Golden-straw in color, It's light haze shows full carbonation that fuels a strong creamy head. Slightly off white, the ale leaks a strong lacy collar in true Belgian form

The beer is all fruit and spice in the nose: banana and clove charges in; taking on Hefeweizen-type aromatics. A rebuttal of white pepper and soft wheaty back the grassy hops before concluding with pilsner grain scent and is modestly white wine-like.

Medium-sweet to the early palate, the beer promotes a part-grain and part-malt taste that's rich with fruit: apricot, mango, lemon, banana and apple. Spicy with clove, white pepper and herbal, stemmy hops that are delicately grassy and floral to balance the malts and offer complexities of all their own..

Medium-creamy at the onset, the mouthfeel puts forth a careful dryness; carrying a complex residual sweet tone. But the rich slightly candied character retains the beer's structure while providing effortless drinkability and semi-dry warmth in finish.

Where the taste of banana and clove are common in Tripel Ales, the height of their proportions are much more of German Hefeweizen than of Tripels. Its fuller body and bready taste also pulls the ale toward classic German wheated ales than the more zesty and wine-like dryness of Tripels. Style critique aside, the beer brings satisfaction easily to the taste buds, stomach, and mind.

Serving type: on-tap

05-08-2013 06:43:02 | More by BEERchitect

TheRougeBastard

North Carolina

3.25/5  rDev -14.7%

05-06-2013 00:13:24 | More by TheRougeBastard

Lantern

North Carolina

4/5  rDev +5%

05-04-2013 12:30:24 | More by Lantern

fastrodney

North Carolina

3.75/5  rDev -1.6%

05-01-2013 22:14:34 | More by fastrodney

Larrydoherty

Massachusetts

3.5/5  rDev -8.1%

04-30-2013 21:18:08 | More by Larrydoherty

facundoCNB

New Jersey

3.8/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

mostly clean, slightly hazy golden/yellow in color with a finger of foamy white head which dissipated quickly but gave off some great lacing. sweet herbal scents of grass, tea leaves, sugarcane, lemongrass. a funky bitter flavor up front, almost mushroom-like, lots of sweet sugary bready malt, grassy bitterness throughout, pretty heavy on the booze presence. medium body with high carbonation, a nice warmth builds up in the chest.

this is a decent tripel. balances out the typical sweetness with lots of grassy/herbal hops nicely.

Serving type: can

04-24-2013 00:37:28 | More by facundoCNB

Bluecane

North Carolina

3.5/5  rDev -8.1%

04-21-2013 06:37:19 | More by Bluecane

jduprey007

Michigan

4.25/5  rDev +11.5%

04-20-2013 02:16:41 | More by jduprey007

En29356

Texas

3.25/5  rDev -14.7%

04-18-2013 00:44:36 | More by En29356

Daniellobo

District of Columbia

3.75/5  rDev -1.6%

04-15-2013 01:30:52 | More by Daniellobo

csparace

Illinois

4/5  rDev +5%

04-13-2013 20:42:33 | More by csparace

Apathetiq

Massachusetts

3.25/5  rDev -14.7%

04-11-2013 02:56:13 | More by Apathetiq

OldTime

Georgia

4/5  rDev +5%

04-10-2013 19:53:40 | More by OldTime

sendbeer

Georgia

3.75/5  rDev -1.6%

04-08-2013 15:00:04 | More by sendbeer

DavidGross

Ohio

2/5  rDev -47.5%

04-06-2013 02:18:51 | More by DavidGross

AC-Mivsek

Ohio

3.5/5  rDev -8.1%

04-05-2013 20:23:52 | More by AC-Mivsek

theleechster

District of Columbia

4.5/5  rDev +18.1%

03-30-2013 22:11:58 | More by theleechster

oline73

Maryland

3.75/5  rDev -1.6%

03-30-2013 21:14:05 | More by oline73

MightiestBeard

Florida

4/5  rDev +5%

03-27-2013 00:11:13 | More by MightiestBeard

PhantasIPA

Delaware

4.04/5  rDev +6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75

The color of this beer is a light-golden that pours with a solid, 1 inch head and leaves very little lacing on the glass.

The smell is wheaty and malty but still light and airy.

Taste is wheat and nuts heavy followed quickly by a honey and sugar malt. It has a lemon flavored citrus taste and leaves an interesting taste on the tongue. A hint of heavy alcohol is present but that is to be expected considering the brew is 9.2% ABV.

The mouthfeel is heavy but refreshing. The heavy, wheaty flavor mixes with the high alcohol content but since it has very little carbonation the beer comes off very light and smooth.

Overall this beer is good but not great. Tastes good and is easy to drink. Worth a try but may not become a favorite for you. It did not for me but it was worth drinking.

Serving type: can

03-24-2013 22:38:23 | More by PhantasIPA

smakawhat

Maryland

3.31/5  rDev -13.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3

Poured from the bottle into a tulip glass.

A real brass golden body, dark lemon and clear with a little bit of haze. Small column of rising carbonation in the middle but wit a bit of a slow crawl. Head is fluffy white with about two and a half fingers and makes a thick soapy collar. Pretty inviting, and solid.

Bouquet is peanut butter sensing, and a good hint of sharp clove like spices. Small hinting Belgian sweetness.

Palate hits with a good amount of booze and fusel tasting alcohol. Sharp palate of drying alcohol heat, which doesn't let much of anything flavor wise come out. Light sweetness with a somewhat vinous palate. Decent enough malt backbone and body to carry the flavors.

Overall it's drinkable, but way too noticeably hot and boozy, which kills the ability to detect anything else on the palate.

Serving type: bottle

03-24-2013 22:12:33 | More by smakawhat

TequilaTom

Ohio

1.25/5  rDev -67.2%

03-24-2013 11:10:50 | More by TequilaTom