$10 for 1-pint 9-oz. bottle of fluffy ivory-headed alcohol-soaked blonde wrapped in white bag w/ blue stripes. Pour slowly thick resinous pale yellow fluid or explosive carbonation will overwhelm immediate lemon-peeled apple blast to sour grape finish. Peppery floral-hopped mandarin orange sidles vinous white grape tannins and red grapefruit rind subtlety. On tap at Growler & Gill, sweet honeyed malts and herbal citric spicing picked up pleasing cellar-like fungi yeast mossing.
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AFFLIGEM ABBEY TRIPEL ALE
DRAGONMEAD FINAL ABSOLUTION TRIPPEL ALE
KONINGSHOEVEN TRIPEL TRAPPIST ALE
Turbid rust-hued Trappist triple bock features fulsome yeast character, tangy cherry-orange bluster, floral-dabbed herbal hop soothe, and brandy-sweetened warmth. Illusions of hazelnut, date, and cashew decorate wheat-grass perimeter, but faint buttery caramel finish lacks richness and depth its classification presumes.
ST. PAUL ABBEY TRIPLE ALE
KASTEEL BIERE DU CHATEAU BELGIAN ALE
ALLAGASH CURIEUX ALE
Choice amber-hazed Belgian-styled tripel, aged in Jim Beam bourbon barrels, tethers perfumed yeast sweetness to overripe tangerine-apple tang, tart grape-skinned orange peel bittering and dry Scotch licks. Hiked up coriander-clove-currant spicing, white-peppered herbal dryness, oaken vanilla spell and floral hibiscus-lotus conflux cede to faded cognac finish, where honeyed almond-pecan-coconut serenity placates creamy vanilla cleft. Pinot Grigio wining adds buttery warmth to mindbending elixir.
(DUBUISSON) SCALDIS CLOVIS (BUSH AMBREE TRIPEL)
LA RULLES BIERE DE GAMME TRIPLE
Unexpectedly smooth, thickly viscous, amber-yellowed ‘triple’ brings sour apple waft to peach-apricot-grapefruit juiciness as medicinal warmth builds. Creamy butterscotch remnant, honeyed coriander snip and mild floral nip give way to peppery hop-fizzed bittering. Its delicate nature is its slender reward.
SOUTHAMPTON TRIPLE ABBEY-STYLE ALE
Subtle Belgian-styled triple brings lemony orange blossom tang and vanilla-banana-bubblegum sweetness to candi-sugared yeast setting. Clove-coriander spicing and fennel-carrot adjunct sit below latent black-peppered menthol freshness subsuming broadened banana bread buttering. Just a tad unassuming.
ALLAGASH TRIPEL RESERVE BELGIAN STYLE ALE
Soft-tongued amber-clouded thickheaded wheat beer essence aided by honey fruited sweetness, caramelized barley-oats subtlety, and soft candi-sugared Belgian yeast pleasantry. Splendid white-peppered pineapple, grapefruit, banana and apricot tropicalia reaches nirvana. Extremely light ‘triple’ ale considering diffidently cool 9.7% alcohol content.
EEL RIVER TRIPLE EXULTATION (CERTIFIED ORGANIC)
Tangy tangerine sweetness and red licorice respite contrast wood-hopped grapefruit bittering of unassuming 9.7% alcohol-burnt medium body. Ruddy ‘old ale’ remains buttery as whiskey-tinged caramel malts coat fig, date and green raisin illusions plus candied apple subsidy and medicinal cherry coughdrop tease.