Midnight Sun Panty Peeler
Free spirited Panty Peeler Tripel pours rambunctiously into your glass, releasing its engaging aroma. Curacao (bitter) orange peel and coriander create a beautiful yet bolder tripel by infusing color, citrus and spice. Belgian yeast adds playful character. Bottle conditioning assures a perfectly heady experience.
Brewed as a Belgian tripel but with American boldness, Panty Peeler is delicious yet spirited. Originally named Extreme Polar White Bier, it got nicknamed "Panty Peeler" along the way. Then we translated it to French for a while: E’pluche-culotte. Now we’re back to calling it Panty Peeler and we’ve kicked up the coriander and orange peel to represent its original design.
Brewed as a Belgian tripel but with American boldness, Panty Peeler is delicious yet spirited. Originally named Extreme Polar White Bier, it got nicknamed "Panty Peeler" along the way. Then we translated it to French for a while: E’pluche-culotte. Now we’re back to calling it Panty Peeler and we’ve kicked up the coriander and orange peel to represent its original design.
3.7
450 reviews
Anchorage, United States
Community reviews
The alcohol may catch some off guard but my wife’s clothes aren’t falling off without an auxiliary shot of tequila. Quite complex, with coriander and other spices, yeast, citrus and other fruits, and more. Not a traditional tripel but that’s no bad thing.
Pours dark for style, an amber orange (not the usual yellow-orange). Aroma is orange, bubblegum, spice. Taste is sweeter than expected, but well balanced with spice, pepper, coriander, orange peel, apple cinnamon, apricot. Quite nice overall. Very drinkable for the abv; would sessionable even, if it were cheaper.
Tap. Dark golden pour with a lot of head. Honey, coriander, orange peel, pepper. Sweet and fruity. Hides alcohol well and makes it a dessert drink even for a non-beer drinker
Poured from big bottle. Aroma is citrus, spice, syrup and white bread. Cloudy dark gold with minimal head. I taste brown sugar, orange peel, citrus, coriander, pepper, cinnamon, yeast, malt. Lots of different flavors which work quite well together. Good drinkability, and alcohol is not noticed. Nicely done, enjoyable beer.
"i dug this one, though 11.99 was a bit extreme. spiced like a wit but with the spiciness and already-there fruitiness of a nice tripel. holds up well. very fruity and very tasty. nice change."
Bottle. Nose of spicy citrus, honey, bread, coriander, oranges. Deep golden color with lace, cloudy. Very sweet, estery flavors, peaches, apricot. Ok, but very sweet and not all that special.
New Beer Distributors, NYC 650ml ($8.75): Pours orange with a not very large head. Aroma is orange, spice, bubblegum, and no alcohol to speak of. Taste is sweet. Alcohol is well covered. Plenty of citrus. Mouthfeel is nice. Light aftertaste. I can see why it got its nickname.
Yeasty, bready aroma with undertones of banana and bubblegum. Beautiful golden color with very active white head. Bubblegum washes over the tounge bouyed by banana bread. Hints of citrus on the sides of tounge. No hint of alcohol burn
Poured from bottle. Clear, orange color. Good head but disapated quickly. Excellent carbonation. Sweet aroma of fruit. Crisp start, tart but with a sweet finish. Enjoyed it very much. A new favorite.
Sweet apricot aroma. Pours clear orange with a thin white head. Really flavorful, lots of sweetness with a long fruity finish.
Draft. Pours golden orange with a white head. Fruity and spicy, with peach, vanilla, hints of booze, and a light spicy yeasty finish. Nice enough.
Surprisingly quaffable, very complex and interesting twist on a Belgian tripple . Coriander and orange notes provide bittering to balance residual sweetness and alcohol. Wife loves it, the name is accurate.
(Draught) clear, tepid gold liquid, almost no bubbles and looks syrupy in the glass. Nose of mango, perm chemicals, tons of coriander and orange peel, sticky sweet smell. Taste has more coriander than any beer I can recall, peppery, floral, touches of tropical flavors and orange peel, orange marmalade. Sweet and medium thick body, needs more attenuation and carbonation In my opinion.
Deep amber with a cream head. Nose is orange, spice, musk, yeast, dried fruits. Smooth palate, light alcohol, dried fruits, orange, citrus, heavy spice.
On tap at Beer Culture NYC. Orange hazy pour with a slight head. Aroma is slight citrus. Taste is lemon vs orange. Orange wins. Very smooth. You could get drunk off this easy.
Thanks to Terry Stovall for bringing this back from Anchorage AK --- Cloudy medium amber with a head cover, lace that slides back into the drink. Taste is tart wheaty malt that is joined by more bittering than 15 ibus suggest, giving way to coriander and orange in the finish. This is a real original that works on its own terms, but is not a solid representative of the style. Worth seeking out.
August 17th, 2012 - Midnight Sun Brewing Company’s lasciviously named Panty Peeler might be the "beer of trip" up to Alaska. We picked it up in a small liquor store somewhere in Sitka, mostly on a lark. As tourists are "curio lust" was in full swing - our instincts demanded we by some kind of tasteless crap to commemorate the adventure to the tamest part of the untamed Alaskan wilderness. For me, the Panty Peeler fit the bill perfectly. The label and name were worth a boyish chortle and a guffaw, and it promised to be more enjoyable than a t-shirt covered in crude innuendo and half-hearted sexual puns. But the real treat was that the beer inside wasn’t merely satisfactory, or even good. It was EXCELLENT. The nose has a twangy, funky fresh banana note, coupled with e Brettanomyces twang that resonates like a loud, plucked banjo string in a silent room. Clove creeps into the nose as well, though it trips itself up as it immerses deeper into the yeasty funk of this brew’s bouquet. On the tongue this beer is predominantly sudsy, and maybe even excessively so, but eventually the flavor musters the courage to step forward and express itself. When it does, there’s lots of light orange and lemon flavors, decorated with a cherry sweetness, and the light tart tang of meringue. The body is light (reasonably so), demonstrating a good balance between mouthfeel and flavors. With a little time and patience, the carbonation is tempered, revealing a delicately balanced brew that once again shows off Alaskan proficiency in lighter brews.
Pours a hazy, barely transparent dark apricot. Strong, fruity aroma has a good yeasty underpinning. Bold, mainly fruity flavor has notes of pear, apricot and banana. Texture is firm and strongly fizzy, and leaves a fruity finish. Peel yer panties for this one!
HMOG 2014. Thought someone said this had several years on it. Aged very nicely then. Light hazed orange pour. Sweet white grape, juicy, hints of fruity easters, citrus. Bits of booze splashy. Very nice triple.
The aroma is fruit, apple, spicy. The appearance is hazy yellow, white head. The flavor is peppery, fruity. The finish is pepper, sweet, light fruit. Medium in body. Nice.
Pours deep golden. Aroma is ohenolic, fruity, fruity alcohols, peaches. Flavor peaches, clean sweet malts and a moderately dry finish. Really nice.
22 ounce bottle. Pours a golden red with a small beige head. Aroma of fruit, malt, yeast, and spice. Taste is yeast, orange, malt, coriander, and caramel. A touch sweet. Very good.
3.98/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 4 smell: 3.75 taste: 4 feel: 4.25 overall: 4
Pours a beautiful hazed orange color with a cantalope melon hue. Just wonderful to look at. Not a whole lot of lace from my lazy pour and it fell fast to a thin ring. Nose is vivacious and has plenty of exotic tropical fruit. Sweet and juicy. There’s a touch of malt that hints at bread and offers just a light sweetness on the nose. No alcohol on the nose, but a nice bit of earthy coriander. The scent of orange is deep within the beer and is an all around orange fruitiness.
Taste is wonderful. This beer offers a tremendous fruit sweetness with lush and heady tropical fruits and an all around orange flavor too. The malt suggests bread but does not become too heavy or too bready. Wonderful mouthfeel on this that is due to that malt. The coriander is earthy and lends a depth. There is a nice yeast dryness that takes the mid palate just as you are begining to swoon from all that wild tropical flavor. Then it finishes with a sweet and warming alcohol that has a spice and pepper of it’s own. A lingering fruity aftertaste.
This beer is a delight!
Draft at the growler NYC. Pours a golden bronze color with no head. Taste and smells of slight booze . Very good triple
Draft. Orange golden pour with white head. Light yeast, spice and Belgian tones in aroma and flavor, kind of mild for 9%...
13 dec 2013, bottle. Yellow, clear, no bubbles. Nose is straw and amber malt. Thin body, slightly syrupy, mildly fizzy. Gold syrup and granila malt ok.
Hazy golden yellow/orange/amber colored body with a half finger white head that quickly dies leaving some super light lacing, the aroma has a little bit of orange peel, some coriander that adds a bit of spiciness, a little bit of lemon all backed up with some light Belgian yeast, the flavor is sweet yet spicy and somewhat malty, orange/coriander aftertaste, dry spicy finish, its somewhat easy on the palate, overall, good somewhat sessionable tripel, probably better in the summer months, but makes for a good night
Hazy golden, moderate head, decent lace/retention. Aroma is slightly sour malt with notes of orange, coriander, yeast. Medium bodied, lightly sweet, light sourness, alcohol hidden well. Comes off as American but it’s kind of an interesting take on the style. Better than most US examples, but pales compared to my favorites.
Very nice tripel. Belgian yeast notes play a solid background and resonate throughout boldly. Citrus notes add interest. Quite lightly carbonated, and heavier in mouthfeel than typical of the style. B+
Tap: cloudy orange pourwith large white head. Aroma is yeasty, perfumy, caramel, dried orange peel and honey. Flavor is tangy, spicy with belgian yeast funk, some tart grass, bitter-tart lemon and orange peel, and a little honey sweetness. I liked it overall, it has a spicy palate with a mild bitter and sweetness throughout. Not an oh wow beer but definitely good.