Flying Dog Kerberos Tripel

Flying Dog Kerberos Tripel

Kerberos is the Greek name for the three-headed hellhound that guarded the gates of the underworld, making it more than worthy of protecting the contents of this bottle.


We used the finest imported Pilsner malt and Belgian candi sugar to give this beer its’ light malt flavor and color, accented by the complex flavors and aromas imparted by our unique yeast strain.



Alcohol by Volume: 8.5%

Plato: 19

IBUs: 27

Specialty Malts: 2-Row Pilsner,
Aromatic
Hops: German Perle, French Strisserspalt, Saaz
3.1
543 reviews
Frederick, United States

Community reviews

2.7 Bottle @ BeerTemple, Amsterdam. Solid Belgian style trippel. Bit too much on the sweet side and strong taste of alcohol, pretty good.
3.1 Bottle (7 oz./207ml). Vintage 2008. From a discounted 8-pack of four Flying Dog high-gravity beers. Super sweet aroma, honey and sugar. Honey color, cloudy, almost no head. Dull, flat sweetness, mid palate is more or less balanced. Goes nowhere. Mild aftertaste. Medium body. Well, it is reminiscent of a tripel.
3.5 Bottled, aged 3.5yrs, 355ml from Beers of Europe, Norfolk. Gold with white head. Surprisingly, quite a gentle beer, smooth, honeyed sweetness, a touch of spiciness, fully developed. A pretty decent copy of an Abbey Tripel which is not easy from outside, the yeast does seem to be doing the job. Decent.
3.3 Bottled @ Just Beer Assocaiton. Bien forte comme bière, style belge, mais un peu trop aigre/amère
3.3 355 ml bottle. Rated on 20110101. Pours clear golden color with small head. Aroma of spices, yeast and some caramel. Flavor of spices, yeast, caramel and fruits. 5344
3.0 Bottle; hazy orange with small pale yellow head; aroma-fruits, peaches, yeast, sweet, toffee, alcohol; taste-medium sweetness, lightly bitter, full body, sticky, average carbonation, long finish. Not sure this beer is cohesive. It’s a little hard to follow with the mouth feel being more pleasant than the swallow.
3.3 Bottle 355ml @ home Pours clear golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, sugar and dried fruits. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
2.7 (Bottle) Pours clear golden with a small white head. Quite still in the glass. The aroma is rather sweet with notes of honey, light marzipan, flowers, clove, sugar and mild spicy and grassy hops. Some canned fruitiness in the background. The flavour is near medium sweet and light to medium bitter with notes of yeast, dough, bread, flowers, clove, honey and light marzipan alongside some grassy and spicy hops. A subtle fruitiness of apricots in the background. The mouthfeel is clean and light syrupy with a light numbing finish. Medium bodied. Way too sterile to be a good Tripel in my book.
2.8 Bottle from Da Aldo. Golden yellow with an off-white lacing head. Candy, caramel, figs, slight tartness and hops. Medium dense body and carbonation. Sweet aftertaste with no sign of alcohol.
3.0 Bottle:   Translucent golden, moderate white frothy head, little lacing, soft carbonation.   Bright bready nose, really bready, fairly musty.   Has this wheat germ or corn husk aspect to it, fairly strong.   Otherwise bready on the tongue.   Somewhat bright, not really floral.   Warming but not alcoholic.   Certainly not like any Belgian variety, more American in its heaviness.   Body and mouthfeel are moderate.   Can escape this corn husk/dust aspect, even on the finish.   Meh, needs to be more floral.   Not bad, just not all that interesting.
3.4 12oz bottle in a Trappist glass. Pours light copper with a thin, lacy, white head. Aroma of spicy yeast, pale and caramel malts, and light floral hops. Flavor about the same. Average texture. A decent beer, but not the best for its style.
4.2 This beer had a huge aroma to it dominated by fruit. Nice golden/orange colour and tasted great. Wouldn’t recommend it as a session beer, can taste the alcohol and finishes warm and bitter.
3.3 The aroma is sweet with light notes of vanilla. It pours dirty blonde with a decent white head. The flavor is sweet and syrupy with the flavors of the Belgian yeast mostly. The booze is lost a bit with three years making it really smooth. Not really spicy at all though, probably lost over the three years.
3.1 Bottle. Pours bright orange, very clear, lots of bubbles. Nose is yeast, bread and oranges. Not particularly pungent. Taste is yeasty, orange, alcoholic, but lacking a bit of body and a bit of ommph in terms of flavour.
3.3 2008: Yeasty walnut with peach overtones. Cloudy orange, headless, full of floaties. Dough, yeast, and tart overripe oranges. Assumes a babyfood peach and apricot quality toward the end. The beer has potential, but something went awry in the execution. Then again, 3 years of age ma not be ideal for this one. I like the interpretation of the style, but it probably needs to be drunk fresher.
3.3 Hazy medium orange body with a thin white head. The aroma is a bit unusual for the style in a way that is hard to describe: fruity, hints of berries, brown sugar, boozey notes reminiscent of rum. Very low on carbonation with a light, slightly viscous body. Has a bread, grain, and caramel flavor up front, burnt sugar, some citrus. Not near as fruit as it smelled, but with very strong sugary flavors. Doesn’t really feel like a tripel.
3.8 Hazy golden color with a small pretty fast diminishing head. Smell light malts, light sweetness. Nice taste, full body, good carbonation.
3.6 Triple with amazing color, which is a good interpretation of a triple, although it too sweet.
3.1 Hefiger, leicht süßlich-weinartiger Geruch. Antrunk sü0ßlich und trocken-hefig. Kräuterige Mitte mit würzigen Noten. Nelkig-zimtig und betont bitter im Abschluß. USA-Tripel - interessant, kann einem Delirium tremens jedoch nicht das Wasser reichen.Test vom 17.4.2010, Gebinde: Glasflasche
2.8 Had this once a few years back, pretty sure this still is not sold in Washington state. Big orange zesty kind of nose. Smells like an imperial wit of some sort. Same kind of citrus notes in the flavors blended with some bread and Belgiany sugar notes not blended together all that well. Just doesn’t really taste like a Triple...
2.8 Bottle. Faint aromatic caramel cereals hay. Hazy light Golden. Medium head and body. Slight sweetness and short nonbitter finish. Searching for the yeast flavours!
3.5 Unique and welcomed take on the style aromatically with bubble gum and strawberry notes peering above the classically dry attic nose. Hazy sunset, fleeting white head. Sweet honey body, ample weight, darker more robust middle, approaches a balance in the finish, though remains malt driven accented with some herbal notes from the yeast.
2.9 Bottle. Golden, hazy, small and fully diminishing head. Moderate, malty – wheaty and fruity sweetish aroma, some banana and yeast, faint spiciness. Body is medium, malty – wheaty and fruity sweetish flavor, yeast and some spiciness, faint banana and hoppyness, some alcohol. Finish is average, malty – wheaty and lightly sweetish, fruitiness with some yeast, alcohol. Sweetish fruity tripel, too much alcohol considering the body.
3.6 Golden yellow beer with a medium and blond head. Aroma is quite strange, but interesting, bananas, some fruits, spicyness, like combination of hefe and tripel. Taste is similar than aroma, cooked bananas, fruits, yeast and some drying spicys. Almost full bodied with enough of carbonation. Weird, hefe-tripel hybrid, quite tastefull and succesfull beer.
3.1 Bottle from Mane Liquor. An unusual tripel. Hazy golden pour with almost no head. Has a wit tones about it. Yeast and banana on the nose followed by spices and bread. Sweet malts and light citrus come through int he flavour. Decent enough but there are better tripel’s out there for the price
3.1 SCHIUMA: Bianca, media presenza, abbastanza fine, media persistenza COLORE: oro carico con riflessi arancio, leggermente velata INTENSITA’ / FINEZZA / AROMA profumata, con toni di prugna, uva e frutta passata di maturazione, con lieviti in evidenza, non perfetti però, e sentori alcolici vinosi ( sensazione di un vino mal barricato??) GUSTO / RETROGUSTO / PERSISTENZA entra dolce, malto in evidenza con sentori di zucchero e caramello; si ripropongono sapori di frutta matura . Rimangono sentori di lieviti però non puliti, accompaganti da un acidulo alcolico di frutta fermentata che infastidisce un po’. Retrogusto non molto lungo che lascia la bocca un po’ interdetta. luppoli in sordina. CORPO / CARBONATAZIONE / CONSISTENZA corpo medio, carbonata il giusto. --si avverte il tentativo di emulare una tripel belga però le varie componenti faticano a trovare il giusto equilibrio, rendendo il prodotto un po’ altalentante in bocca. I sentori vinosi sono un po’ eccessivi ed i lieviti non molto fini. Birra di una certa struttura però non convince fino in fondo. Nota: delle due bevute una aveva scadenza passata di 1 anno!! non che la differenza fosse cosi evidente, comunque....
2.8 Bottle at Plan B, Copenhagen Dark blond color. Poor head. Mild aroma of malt, sweet and sourish, alcohol. Correct body structure; light malt flavor, a bit too sweet for a Tripel, correct bitterness. Too much alcohol.
3.4 looks like an orange wit smells a bit like a wet bread that has started to ferment. i really like this but it is very unique. tastes like flat orange and some spice maybe caraway pretty good by the end of the bottle i was in love!
2.9 08 vintage. Aroma of white wine and pear. Taste is sour grape, apple, slightest hop, and mild sweetness. OK beer, but nothing special. Get other tripels.
3.3 Bottle. It pours hazy golden with a medium white head. The aroma is yeast, banana, coriander, caramel and light citrus. The flavour is sweet malty, and light alcoholic with notes of citrus, yeast and banana. Bit watery.