Southern Tier Tripel

Southern Tier Tripel

Don’t let Tripel’s light color and delicate aroma fool you, this is one serious beer brewed with maximum effort. First, we introduce freshest barley to crystal filtered water. Second, we add the best hops shipped directly for Europe. Third, our special yeast is the catalyst for fermentation, gobbling sugar and creating alcohol as it works. Some say that the Belgian monks who first brewed this style called it triple to denoted its high alcohol content. Still others believe triple’s origins lay in its triple fermentation; twice in the brewery and once in the bottle. Whatever the answer, ours is the Tripel threat.
3.2
318 reviews
Lakewood, United States

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3.5 Nice to look at with a clear golden color. One finger of decent head. Slight haze, but mostly clear. Kicks with a strong, spicy Belgian smell. Strong alcohol scent. It’s pretty clear this baby has a ton of alcohol. Oh well, I’ll try it anyway. The smell is quite pungent. It’s got a very harsh flavor. Serious serious bite. Has the Belgiany taste but with a major afterbite and serious alcohol (liquor-ish) presence. Much easier as it warms up. A decent thickness but with a bubbly, fizzy champagne feel. Makes the alcohol just slightly harder to slug down. It’s very strong, hardcore. Hurts just a bit on the way down. All in all, though, a fine brew. Just not for all-night drinkin’.
3.3 Bottle. Yellow-orange pour, thin white head. Aroma is yeast and alcohol. Taste is caramel, yeast, hop, and booze. Nice tripel.
3.2 Clear golden pour with a medium white head. Aroma of honey and hops. Flavor of honey and hops with bitterness in the end. The body is light and creamy while the carbonation is medium. Not bad, but doesn’t feel belgian.
3.6 Pours a two finger off-white head that faded quickly to a ring leaving some lace. Clear light amber color with floaties. Good carbonation and medium bodied. Light caramel nose. Flavor is caramel and hops nicely balanced, hints of the higher ABV. $6.49 for a 22oz bottle from Manchester Wine and Liquors Manchester, CT.
3.4 Cloudy golden with a medium white head. Sweet yeasty aroma with hints of fruit and malt. Flavour was yeasty with coriander and malty notes.
2.9 Pours out a clear yellow with a small white head. Light citrus aroma that is a bit funky. The taste isn’t at all what I expected and the alcohol is very noticeable. Other than that it had some spices present in the taste and a tiny bit of hoppyness.
3.9 southern tier brewing company--tripel--belgian style ale--3 X Whatever You Were Thinking--2009 Release--22 oz. Bottle. 9.00% ABV--35 IBU’s? (4.0 / 5.0) Belgian Ale--Tripel--Very thin fizzy no lace head. Clear thin bright rich gold color. Mild Saaz hop Belgian ester front. Crisp mild sweet candy sugar thin tasty mild coriander orange peel dangerously smooth body. Mild hop hot EtOH coriander spice end. Funky southern tier water? Dull. Sampled 10/25/2009. $6.99 Each.
2.1 The aroma is lacking, the taste is lacking. I got a slightly skunky aroma, so maybe its an old bottle. What aromas do come through, some spice, coriander. Taste is similar, some citrus, yeasty, some general malt too. Unimpressive for the style.
3.5 bottle courtesy of cletus. pours a nice slightly fuzzy orange with a 1 finger white, thick, creamy head. very sweet malty nose, with some doughy notes. flavor is decent, seems more like a euro strong lager with the sweetness and all. leaves a heavy surypy sweety after taste.
3.5 Bottled. Dark golden coloured.Unclear. Fluffy off white head. Aroma of yeast, fruits, spice and flowers. Flavour of spice, yeast, fruits, sweets, apple and a herbal touch. Medium bodied. Dry. Fruity grapy end.
3.3 Traded bomber bottle. Overall, good but simple. Alcohol was more than a little noticeable in the aroma and flavour. More sweet expected. Certainly not bad though.
3.8 Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a chalice. Appearance: It has a small one finger thick foamy head. It is bright white in color and quickly fades down to just a small ring of lace. The liquid is a light golden color and has a light hazy appearance. Smell: The aroma has a sweet candy like malt and yeast character with some light notes of apple and pineapple. Hop aroma is also noticeable but very light. Taste/Palate: The malt has solid Belgian candied sugar sweetness with notes of apple and pineapple. The 9%abv gives it some mellow warmth and some boozy/peppery notes. Hop flavor is way off in the distance but adds some light herbal notes, dryness and light bitterness to the finish. The body has medium to full feel and the texture seems a little thick at first from the sweetness but thins out with the bubbly carbonation. Notes: This was a nice drinkable Tripel from Southern Tier.
3.3 From a bottle poured amber with a small head. Nice spicy malty flavor with a quick finish.
2.9 Dry autumn aroma, dead leaves and wet dog. Some cherry juice sweetness too. Bright gold, small temporary head. Very dry throughout, there’s a raw sweetness that wants to escape. The dry character get a bit out of control and takes on a chlorine bleach character for a quick second midpalate, but it’s gone into a cotton sock, finishing with some welcomed white pepper. Seems to be erratic and doesn’t sit still anywhere to fit in.
3.9 light tripel that hides the alcohol content well, citrusy malty, with a bit of sweetness
3.4 This is a nice drinkable tripel. Nothing really extraordinary though. Generally sweet with a bit of pepper in the finish. Solid.
3.2 I love Southern Tier and most of their beers but this one ended up being a bit too sweet for the style and what I like.
4.1 Bottle 2007, 2 years old Beautiful copper-amber color; small head. Sweet malt and delicate fruity aroma; maybe spices, but very light. Good body structure, it has a round malt flavor, caramel, light toffee and light nutty touch; a pleasant residual sweetness and correct bitterness; it provides a light fruity impression, with bitter oranges and something more mellow; in the end the combination of elements reminds me some sweet liquorice. Even if not close to a Belgian Tripel, it’s surely a pleasant, balanced, interesting and well brewed Belgian Strong Ale, the sweetness and fruity touch being the best of it.
3.3 Bottle. Pours an orange hazy golden body with a white head. Citrus, lemon grass, wheat and a bread y character. Pear and some light fruity esters with a moderate warming. Not so good.
3.6 Bottled. Definitely not true to style for a an Abbey Tripel but an interesting beer nonetheless. Body is quite full, and the aroma gives off lots of hops. The slight hoppy bitterness balances out the sweetness from a typical belgian tripel. Alcohol is masked pretty well. There is a slight spiciness on the aftertaste, but it doesn’t linger too long. An interesting american spin, though not a substitute for any Trippiste Ale.
3.2 Bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small, fizzy, white head, diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is average malt (straw, bread), light hop (grass, flowers), average yeast (dough) with notes of alcohol, sugar, coriander, and orange peel. Full bodied, alcoholic texture, average carbonation, and a spicy finish. Long duration, moderate sweetness and acidity, light bitterness.
3.4 Bottle 1pt. 6fl.oz. @ home. Clear medium orange color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, light to moderate hoppy, orange, spicy, moderate yeasty, coriander notes, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, and a peppery finish. Body is medium to light full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20090126]
3.1 This was a bizarre and miscategorized IMO. Gold pour with a nice fluffy head. Very non tripel or even Belgian aroma for that matter. The nose is soft and sweet, a little bland with some pilsner malts, perhaps bready with some sweet grassy notes. Bready flavor, grassy sweetness, woody bitterness. Maybe some yeasty esters, but this is way more imperial pilsner than tripel. My rating is for an imperial pilsner instead of a tripel.
2.6 Bottle. Pours a light amberish color. What is this? A tripel or what? Aroma has caramel malt, some fruit and hops. Flavor is dry as a bone. No normal tripel notes in this one. I don’t know what I am drinking. I don’t like it...that I do know. Vegetal and herbal notes. Weird.
2.8 [Bottle @ Odense Tasting, 14th February 2009, remembered for Carsten BeerMouths fantastic 3 meals highend gastronomy.] Although it’s long time I’ve tasted these brewdrops I remember it as one we had high expects to, but it was not especially good. Need some else than all this dryness!
3.4 hazy golden with a lasting white head. Aroma of caramel, fruity hops and oranges. Dry and hoppy flavour with a slighly yeasty note. Distinctly American in character...
2.1 Okay miss labeled for sure. Was closer to a pils then a tripel. Poured cloudy amer color almost no head or lacing, right there should have told me something. Aroma was grass and herbal tea. Flavor was grassy and earthy something type of spice in there as well. Not a good one even if it was a pils, but for a tripel was a train wreck.
3.2 From Voldby, DK. Bottled, 280309. Amber with small head. Aroma of yeasty fruit. Flavor is some malt and fruity esters. Some alcohol
3.3 aroma of some yeast esters, minimal hops and a touch fo fusely alcohol. apperance is clear blonde. flavor is of decent fruits derived from the yeast and devoid of alcohol or even hops, very very smooth with minimal bitterness. not the greatest tripel ive attempted or even the best belgian style beer, but still a great american big beer which is all i expect from ST.
3.1 Very nice smell and a pretty amber pour. Cleaqr with a foamy head. Something in the taste seemed a little off but I couldn’t put my finger on it. A bit thin with a metallic after taste.