Furthermore Makeweight Triple Pale

Furthermore Makeweight Triple Pale

Our triple pale is a bastardization of three regionally distinctive recipes that were stacked in unequal measure in order to make a beefy beer which highlights each recipe’s finer points: Esters from a dominant Flanders yeast are reigned-in by cleaner American and London strains; Kent Golding hops provide mild bitterness, giving English and Belgian specialty malts room to breathe; Oregonian hops offer a fragrant nose; Belgian candy sugar boosts the strength of this mash-up to 8.5% ABV.
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151 reviews
Spring Green, United States

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3.5 Very good and drinkable, especially given the high alcohol content. Definitely Will have again
3.6 Man the description of this makes the beer sound like a mess, I suppose if anyone can pull it off then these folks can. Pours a hazy orange color with a thick medium sized head and good lace. The aroma is malty & spicy with some clove, some toffee, and some floral notes. Some very clean malt aromas dominate as this sits for a minute. Certainly malt forward in the flavor, some floral bitterness is present along with a good deal of fruitiness. A nice dosing of alcohol is rounded by a touch of toffee and a bit more caramel, but the bitterness really rounds everything out and brings it all together. As it warms some of the phenolics of the yeast come out in a nice way with some banana and mild smoke. For all the effort that seems to have been put into making some sort of multi-cultural tripel, this comes out tasting quite a lot like the upper crust homebrewed Scotch Ales I’ve tried, which is of course awesome.
3.6 Bottle from madvike ... thanks, Matt! Deep bronze-amber pour with a thin cream-colored head. Nose is bursting with yeast, sweet apple blossoms, dried fruit, and notes of burdock root. Flavor is medium sweet, reveals nice toasty malt, and is a bit musty. Moderately thin mouthfeel, slightly oily, soft carb, with bitter grassy hops and booze in the finish. The aroma is very pleasant for me, but I think less Belgian candy sugar and therefore lower abv would have made it much more enjoyable/drinkable. Unique beer. Furthermore always seems to be quite fun.
3.5 Pours a bright amber gold with a half finger of slightly off white head. Lacing is a bit lacking. One of the most complex smelling pales I’ve experienced. Sweet cereal, hay, nice yeast presence. The belgian really goes a long way in this beer. Nice, soft bitterness and that same yeast carries through in the taste. Feel is spot on for the style, nothing too exciting.
3.3 Bottle pours amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet with notes of caramel, apple, pear, orange, and musty yeast. Flavor shows the same with additional notes of bready malt and dried fruit. Overall body is moderate with a lightly bitter finish as well as some apparent alc.
3.5 Pours golden amber, more gold with a small creamy white head. Aroma is spice, citrus, pear and bread. Taste is spicy sweet with some subtle tartness. Medium mouth feel.
3.3 Big big initial aroma of belgian candi sugar and dark fruits, very malty aroma, mostly clear amber with a big tan retentive head that leaves nice lacing... not sure what to make of this beer whether this is a belgian triple or a giant american pale... belgian yeast dominate the flavor with notes of dark fruits and a mild not of american hops that gets cut immediately by the sweetness... interesting concept though more of a belgian that anything else... decent full bodied im gonna call it belgian strong ale...
3.1 Poured a amber brownish color. Full frothy head. Aroma of belgium yeast and candy, with oranges, and some light citrus hops, and maybe some apple. Medium sweetness (at least). Medium body, more creamy texture, ave carbonation. Alcohol comes through. Not a bad trippel. But not a great one. Kind of tastes like my trippel homebrew.
3.7 Belgian IPA - I do not know, howoever the facts I do have: I bought this at Riley’s in Madison based on recommendations by staff. I had no idea what I was drinking when I opened it, it smelled like a yeasty Belgian, and tasting akin to an old ale/American strong. Dark brown body with tremendous spider lacing. Very smooth, understated hops and great malting. I should have bought more bottles!
2.7 Serving glass: Poured from bottle into Chalice. Appearance: Cloudy, dull orange that turns fiery in the light. Massive foamy head with loads of lacing. Aroma: Dry, musty and earthy, with clove, banana and black pepper. Taste: Strange upfront sweetness with caramel, raisins and banana. The finish is a little peppery and spicy, but also has a massive metallic flavor. So it goes from a sickly sweetness to licking a penny. Not good. Palate: Moderate carbonation, medium body with a very chalky finish. Overall: First of all this is not a Belgian IPA. But why do I care, because I will never drink this again. I may try again in case I had a bad bottle, but there is no reason that it should have been bad.
3.4 This beer is really pretty decent, but still nothing much to it. I like some more complexity.
4.0 Served on draft at the Tipsy Cow in Madison, WI at the GTMW pre-party. Pours a clear amber color with a medium sized creamy offwhite head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of bread, spice, caramel and stone fruits. The taste is bread, tart fruit notes and a spicy finish. Medium bodied.
3.2 12oz bottle from Steve’s Liquor and More in Madison, WI. Pours a cloudy brown, orange and amber tinted body with a finger-width, dense and foamy, light tan head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice lacing throughout. Aroma is fairly sweet, dry, and grainy with a light grassy hop spice and some banana esters. Gets a bit citrusy as this warms along with a light Belgian yeast, caramel, dark candi sugar, and a few dried fruits. Flavor has sweeter dark caramels up front with some banana esters, bready grains, and some dried fruit. Light spices come in along with a bit of an herbal and grassy hop as well as some Belgian yeast. Gets a bit earthy towards the finish as the spice grows slightly while this dries pretty well with a light bitterness and moderate alcohol warmth. Light fruity esters, caramel, spicy yeast, and a hint of chocolate in a lengthy aftertaste with some raisin creeping in there too. Medium-thin body and fairly lively, medium-high carbonation. Overall, a bit messy, but not a bad beer. Sweet, spicy, and warming while staying pretty easy drinking.
3.3 12 oz. bottle via BA trade. Pours a cloudy orange color with a small eggshell white head. Aroma of dry malts and grains, banana, sweet malts, and candi sugar. Flavor of banana, bubblegum, booze, candi sugar, and tropical fruits. Medium-bodied, with a fruity mouthfeel and moderate carbonation. Kind of a mess but still interesting.
2.8 Pours a hazy deep dark gold with a thick foamy cream colored head. The aroma immediately reveals esters from the Belgian Yeast Strain. There is a mild roasted malt scent as well as alcohol. The taste is complex. The mouthfeel is bright and bubbly, almost like champagne. First off you can taste the alcohol almost immediately. The front of your palate reveals the warm rich maltiness while the sides of your tounge also immediately reveal the tart sweetness of the belgian candy sugars. Finally the sweet gives way to a lingering bitterness well after the tasting. Interesting, but ultimately a bit offensive and over-complex.
3.2 bottle, deeper golden pour. rich maltiness, slight belgian yeast, candi sugar/. collaboration of different styles. seemed like 12lb of potato in a 12lb bag. sweet malts slightly aged. ok
3.5 very much like blue moon/ magic hat #9 with more flavor and slightly more bitter taste the appearance is much darker but the beer has more character.
3.0 Bottle courtesy of BeerFMAndy. Served in a Russian River TION goblet. Pours a cloudy dark copper color with a small white head that quickly fades into a thin collar and leaves only a spot or two of lacing behind. The nose brings forward some light caramel malt plus a bit of pepper and earth. Mild floral character and a bit of extra spice. The flavor really adds in the Belgian yeast factor, though there is little in the way of hops. Some floral and herbal hops, though they are not prominent. Bready malt in the background. Medium body and a finish that is heavy on the booze. Not a bad take on the style, but needs more hops and the alcohol has to mellow out a bit. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 05-16-2011
3.1 Single 12 oz. bottle, $2.50 at Ray’s, Wauwautosa. A deep brown pour, almost the color of a brandy. Fizzy, slightly tan head. A smell of alcohol under the cap, but in the glass I just get a nose for grainy malt. Taste is somewhat contradictory. I get a full mouth full of malt, but the mouthfeelis slightly thin and watery. I guess to get to this abv, they let it ferment until it was dry, aided by candi sugar. A little hop under the tongue, with blended varieties meaning no discernible character. So it is an alcoholic soda pop,maybe tending toward a tripel ale, though with a conceit of a three-county style mashup, did that need to be its main feature?
1.9 A big beer on tap experience at the Bocktown; the real beer place in Robinson. Whew, but doesn’t seem like 9%. Brownish pale yellow and rather clear. Pond topping. Furthermore this has been the highest furthermore I’ve had. Smells like a stronger beldgy ale and it is, a strong beldgy. Wew, quite a big personality. Not as refined as real old country but approaches to no end. A little difficult for a lager lover. Big buss on first draft. Barely any CO2. Much much aroma, made my olfactory go numb with volatie gasses. Ruff and at time rude fer sure. Quite medicine finsh, almost rude but in a good way.
3.8 Poured from a bottle straight into a globe. Lots of head, slowly diminishes into nothing with very little lace. Big beer without the "I’m a big beer assault". Aroma of alcohol and malts. Complex, slightly thick, sticky, caramel and butterscotch taste. Finishes with a bit of alcohol and sweetness. A drinkable big beer.
3.3 Supposedly a Belgian IPA, didn’t seem close though, it is pretty sweet and caramally, lightly hopped, lightly bittersweet.
3.5 Deep amber with minimal head. Aroma is a mix of English malts and floral hops. Flavor is definitely Belgian skewed with rich maltiness, some fruit, clove/spice. Good helping of semi-citrus/grapefruit hopping. Semi-dry on the finish with some warmth. Delivers what it advertises. Very drinkable despite being a bigger beer.
3.4 Pours a slightly hazy red brown color with medium bubbly offwhite head. Aroma is yeasty pear, very sweet, but nice. Flavor very complex but I’m not sure that its really balanced well. On the front end its cherryish with sweet almost medicinal notes, back end is extremely dry and bitter with booziness. Overall, good but not great.
3.8 Bottle:   Deep caramel, a little dirty, large frothy off-white head, spotty lacing.   Appears to have held up since I think I sat on this for about 3 years.   Soft bready nose, dark pitted fruit, caramel and toffee too.   Big caramel like hit up front, a little boozy, nice malt background, hop bitterness is minor.   Getting some fig/date/prune out of the backside of this one.   Body and mouthfeel are moderate.   I am really impressed how well this one held up.   This comes across as a nice aged Barleywine.   Wow.   Some bistuity malty notes, caramel, dark pitted fruit linger.   Good stuff Maynard!   Forgot who I got this from, but thank you!
3.2 12 oz. Darkish iced tea color with a lasting little head and nice lace. Dark fruit, wood, cherry and a hint of red wine in the aroma. Flavor is dark fruit, oak, brown sugar, and a hint of bubble gum. Medium body is thinnish, lightly carbonated and slightly acidic-astringent. Really kind of a mish-mash mess, but I give ’em extra credit for experimentin’ and makin’ a beer like I would.
3.4 Pour is a dark cola brown with a small tan head. Aroma is of brown sugar and molasses. Flavor is again a brown sugar sweetness with a bit of dark fruit and molasses. Alcohol is there toward the end. A little harsh with the alcohol but this is an above par beer.
2.7 Bottle thanks to Sean! Poured amber with a red hue and an off-white head that dissipated to to a thin head. Aroma was very sweet with notes of grains a biscuits. Flavor was very sweet as well, again with sweet grains and biscuit.
3.4 Appearance: brownish red body with 1 finger white crown that rapidly dissipates and leaves some lace. Smell: caramel malt, booze, and floral hops. Taste: Lots of caramel malt, a touch of herbal and floral hop presence. Mouthfeel: medium bodied, a touch creamy, with a slightly sweet finish. Drinkability: Not digging the flavor profile enough to call it drinkable. 8.50% doesn’t help either. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 08-06-2009
3.2 Bottled. Pours a copper brown with little head. Smells of nuts, broccoli, cardamom, minerals. The flavor is no doubt a mashup, tasting of both spicy Belgian yeast and even banana-y Hefe yeast. I’m not getting too much in the way on PNW hops, but EKG is apparent. A fun beer to drink but in all honesty this beer is a mess and I’ll never want to drink it again, let alone even finish this bottle.