Redhook Tripel
Deep golden hued, with subtle hints of vanilla, clove, and cinnamon. Fruity, spicy, and warming with a complex but soft malt character. Editor’s Note: Limited edition summer seasonal for 2009 but pilot batches were available at fests and the brewpub prior to this release.
3.3
154 reviews
Seattle, United States
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Bottle
Pours a cloudy cheddar orange- foggy, slightly thick- with a dense white head. Nose is pancake, vanilla, light corn syrup, raisin, and reduced-calorie honey. Flavor is raisin syrup, clove, fresh honeycomb, pancake, and light plumb. Nice mouthfeel and a pleasant warming sensation in the belly. Not a bad beer but the elements are too busy vying for attention to allow this to be a great beer.
Pours goldend with some hints of spices and caramel malt. Flavor is slightly complex with vanilla and cinnamon with a fruity undertone and some spice. There is a slight malt character.
Bomber pours deep dull gold - copper with large tan head. The aroma is full of sweet notes like apples, pears, honey and plum puree as well as some spices and a hint of booziness at the end. The taste is pretty soft and smooth with sweet notes of apple, honey, pears and plum juice. It picks up various winter like spices as well as cloves and a faint level of pepper covered peach slices to midway. It gets slightly boozy here and there yet remains soft and smooth into the finish.
On tap at Redhook brewpub. Pours out a cloudy gold/orange topped with a small white head. Aroma was of pit fruit, yeast, spice, and sweetness. Taste more of the pit fruit sweetness along with a good amount of alcohol showing through.
Bottle shared. Poured hazy orangish gold, white head. Nose is vanilla, spice, dark fruit, booze. Taste is also heavy on the spice, vanilla, dark fruit, sweet malt. Mouth is full and warming. Overall, a decent brew.
Tasted 7/1/10. 22oz bomber. Bottled May0409. Filtered yet mildly hazy. White ring of head. Floral and honey aromas with a mild berry undertone. Mild hops and a slight alcohol burn. Spicy and full bodied with a sticky body. Citrus yeast and peppery flavors. Cinnamon toast. Bitter grassy and floral. Subtle note of caramel in the front. Lingering and somewhat ample alcohol burn. More toasty than citrus, but still solid!
22oz bottle, remnants of Boonville. Pours a deep golden-orange color; slightly hazy; small-bubbled, off-white head with light retention and decent lacing. Uh-oh. Lots of stale maltiness, raisins, and overripe fruits in the aroma; cloying sweetness, with some alcohol present even at quite cold temperatures; sweet, sticky, overripe, boozy, and stupid; huge amounts of alcohol for the style, and none of the charismatic elements of the style. Full body (ugh); modest carbonation (did we forget to read up on what a tripel is?); not creamy, but cloying, non-astringent, with a bit of soft warmth coming through; following the aroma, just tons of raisins, stale malts, honey, and cloying malty sweetness; TRIPELS DO NOT NEED TO BE 10% ALCOHOL TO BE COMPLEX, and I present this as proof that they’re far better when they aren’t; complex and layered in the way that a compost bin offers wide-ranging complexity; no me gusta. This is difficult to drink, heavily viscous, and a shameful example of the style. I can’t support brewing like this. But honestly, I’m kind of grateful this is as poor as it is, because otherwise I’d feel obliged to drink the rest of this. A lengthy, cloyingly sweet finish of honey, cardboard, raisins, and sugar.
Very drinkable.
Pours golden with a small head and lacing.
Aroma of spice.
Vanilla, cloves in the flavor.
Nice melding of the flavors, but nothing spectacular.
Orange in color with a decent off-white head. Aroma is of booze, grain, caramel and yeast. Taste is sweet with sugar, booze, caramel and grain.
Sampled in a 22oz. Pours with a really impressive golden brown hue. Thin white lacey head. The aroma is sweet. The palate is nice but not the best and what you would expect. Great drinking brew. You can taste the alcohol.
Taste is cinnamon spicy with other aspects of coriander and orange. Just a little sugary sweetness and more yeast as you drink it. Finish is much more sweet than bitterand you get the bite of alcohol at the end.
Bottle: Pale orange pour with a thin off-white head. Intense aroma is yeast, citrus, plum, vinous, and cloves. Taste is more spicey with the cloves, cinnamon, and sort of leafy. It’s dry and lets the alcohol presence be known. Just a little sugary sweetness and more yeast. Better as it warms, the maltiness comes out and it shows a little more sweetness overall than the initial dryness.
Red Hook Ale Brewery, Inc.--Tripel Belgian Style Ale Batch No. 002--Limited Release Summer 2009--Brewmaster Signature Greg Deah--2009 22 oz. Bottle. 10.20% ABV--22 IBU’s. (4.0 / 5.0) Belgian Ale--Tripel. Thin light lace head. Clear bright thin amber gold color. Rich Belgian fruit ester vanilla clove front. No sediment. Thin dry sweet rich Tripel Belgian candy sugar fruit ester body. Hot EtOH spice mild hop end. Etched Glass Bottle with Paper Label. Sampled 8/2/2009. 2 @ $4.69 Each.
Bottle from Wegman’s Holidays 2009 rated from notes and I remember this one too. Pours dark straw with 2-finger off-white head. Nose is rock sugary malt, hopcitrus. Tastes rather sweet, with rock malt, heavy hopcitrus. Not well balanced nor complex, this one wasn’t great.
Draft at Redhook. Pours a deep golden orange with a small white head. The nose is bubblegum, alcohol, banana, spice, candy sugar, caramel, and belgian yeast. The taste is mainly alcohol, clove, caramel malt, and bubblegum. Not a very good tripel in my opinion. Palate is moderate, and chewy.
Draft at the brewery. Orange pour with a small white head on it. Has a pleasant and promising ripe fruit aroma, lots of fresh cut banana, some citrus, and spicy cloves and coriander. Sadly, this didn’t translate too well into the flavor, which is rather one dimensionally sweet with a hint of apple, and has a surprising astringent note near the finish along with a bit more clove. The pleasant fruity and spicy aromas just don’t make it to your tongue. Has a good amount of bubbles and a moderately heavy feel to it. This felt like it could have been better.
Draft at woodinville pub. Pours dark hold, little head but great lace. Mild citrus bread aroma. Mild, full bodied sweetness. Okay trippel.
Light amber pour with a good sized white head. Aroma was pear, caramel, and belgian yeast. Flavor follows through, kind of boring but nothing totally off. A little big for a triple I thought, chewy finish.
Sweet caramel malt aroma. Clear golden color with a small white head. Mild sweet beginning with a slightly less sweet and tangy finish.
Bottle [650ml] shared with HogTownHarry & garthicus -- c/o garthicus. Pours a slightly hazy golden-orange with a small diminishing white head. Mild aroma is yeasty along with sweet malt, some fruit and spices. Flavour of sweet malt, alcohol, spices, candi sugar and fruit. Alcohol is quite prominent. Medium bodied. Too sweet and boozy, just O.K.
22. Pours a cloudy dark golden amber with a dense and creamy platinum blond head that stick around for a little while, leaving a bit of cottony lace on its way down. Classic appearance but not particularly a cover girl shot. Dust, candi sugar, and a bit of sweet cream on the nose--very subdued. Smells like they picked the right yeast, and probably the right adjuncts, but dialed it back a bit. Pretty much par for the course with Redhook, that. Creamy medium body, lively carb. Oranges, green apples, sweet cream, and tons of white sugar on the mid-palate. Probably a bit too forwardly sweet and fruity, and not balanced enough. Nothing’s really wrong here, but the proportions are certainly strange, and that throws it far enough off to be trouble.
Dark amber - off white head. Aroma of fruit and banana, taste sweet with banana and spices.
22 oz. bottle from Jax in Cumming, GA. Not much head was produced, even when attempted. Haze orange appearance, blah, blah, blah, boring. Subtle light raisin, and grape aroma. Dark fruits are slightly poking through. A nappy malt/yeast aroma coming through. Some sugar sweetness coming through. A pungent aroma, but doesn’t have any awesome/distinct smell. Nice smooth texture...actually, no seems to be a bit on the thin side for a tripel. Sugar and yeast sweet flavors are hitting the taste buds. Fruit flavors aren’t coming through in the flavor as much as I thought they would. The sugar and yeast sweet flavors dominate. Nice attempt from Redhook, but nothing substantial.
Share this bottle. clean copper pour with long lasting head, sweet, syrupy, spicy. Too complex for my taste. I probably just don’t like this malty of a beer.
Pours a clear orange color with minimal fizzy white head. Aroma is really sticky sweet and yeasty. Flavor is generally uninspiring: very sweet candy sugared malt base, with some spice and yeastiness, and a banana lemon finish. Body rather thin. Overall, just so so.
22 oz. bottle shared by Tmoney99. Pours a bright clear orange amber color with a small white head. The aroma has a sweet honey, lightly toasted malt, fruity (pears, citrus), and a fairly strong alcohol presence. The flavor has a pale/bready malt base, honey, pears and citrus fruit, a strange bitterness, and too much alcohol. The sweetness and high alcohol don’t mix well. The bitterness seems out of place. Medium-full bodied, but the alcohol is too much in front. Strange.
Rating #109 for this beer.
Clear golden color with a white head. Aroma of lemon, and a little banana and spice. Very sweet, medium sourness, and lightly bitter. Not so good.
Bottle ( 22oz ). Shared by garthicus with me and blankboy. Clear amber, small white head. Sweet, boozy and thin aroma - an odd nuttiness, but mostly booze and sugary fruit. Taste - same, really strong alcohol, dry and yeasty, but in the background - really boozy. Thin, astringent, weakly carbonated, with a long dry, slightly sour finish. Ehhh - not great.
Appearance: Golden orange with a medium white head. Flavour: Vanilla, raisin, slight alcohol tang. Flavour: Super sweet, lots of vanilla, tiny amount of ginger, alcohol very definitely evident, some winter fruits and a long sticky caramel finish. Just okay.
From a bottle poured brown with a good amount of head. Sweet spicy malty flavor with a quick finish.