Sprecher Abbey Triple
We started with a Trappist Triple yeast culture and carefully blended Belgian pale barley malt with traditional malted wheat and oats to produce a delectable golden ale. This special brew is aged 12 weeks creating a fruity and refined taste with a huge bouqet, light body, and a very smooth, non-bitter finish.
Best served at 55 degrees F.
Best served at 55 degrees F.
3.2
415 reviews
Glendale, United States
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sure this taste good to me. i accidentally saw what everyone else was thinking about this before i got a chance to review it. i hate that they give that information away first. seeing a beers score makes reviews bias. i am, as i type, second guessing my own taste buds. do i actually like this thing? it was rated so poorly?
Faint yeast aroma. Not much there. Pours a bright yellow gold with a thin bright white head that leaves a film of foam on the glass. Medium bodied. Velvety mouthfeel. Wafts of butterscotch and a hint of sweet and spice. A little bit acidic on the finish but overall a nice beer.
Pours a bright golden yellow color. Active carbonation throughout the session. Aromas of hops, fruit, and a little yeast. Has a light fruity citrus taste, with some yeasty notes, and a good hop flavor.
Draft. Pours opaque gold with white head and lacing. Fruity yeast aroma. Fruity yeast flavors. Delicious.
Bottle, in my mother’s basement, just now.
Pours a very hazy banana yellow with a medium sized head that fades reasonably quickly and leaves a little head on the glass.
The aroma is sweet fruit (banana, red apple, & apricot) mixed with a bit clove like spiciness and a bunch of wet limestone.
The flavor is alcoholic and spicy with a medium to high level of sweetness, some fruit punch with frozen pineapple juice in it, some banana, and a bit of minerally earthiness.
It’s cloying and it’s heavy and it’s weird... but honestly this beer was formidable for me. I remember drinking bottles of this over ten years ago and being enormously impressed, this beer pushed me towards styles and price ranges where before I had rarely trod. So in a way I’m quite thankful to this beer, although it’s genuinely outside the bounds of what I would normally drink now.
Very good for a triple. Nice Abbey character and smooth. I didn't think I would like this one but was surprised.
Medium gold. Honey yeast aroma. Mild flavour. More yeast and honey. Some citrus hops and banana. Long citrus finish.
Sweet, citrus, Pours a medium amber a one-finger head that doesn’t last long. Like other Belgians, not bitter. I believe this is a very good domestic trippel. I’ll buy it again.
Pours a clear yellow with a relatively thin soapy white film of a head. Sweet nose with a bit of plum to it. Kind of syrupy sweet, with some dark fruits, and less spice then I expected. Not one of the better triples I’ve had, but not bad.
Clear gold with a one finger white head and moderate lace. A bit of an overripe apple aroma accompanies the Belgian yeast, banana and clove. A hint of bubble gum as well. Slight tartness in the taste, some malt sweetness and a strong Belgian presence. Nice creamy mouthfeel, medium to full body, medium carbonation and a crisp tartness in the finish.
Mediocre tripel. Underwhelming amount of spice. Light appearance and highly carbonated.
Aroma of alcohol and dour apple. Appearance is no head light copper color beer, rather ugly. Taste is a poor attempt at an abby. Sour notes bitter after take. Over all a very sub par beer.. Stay away.
bottle @ Jungle Jims / Eastgate OH --- Cloudy medium amber, thin beige head cover, swirls of lace. Taste is wheat and malt that adds light spice in the palate with fruit overtones showing in the finish followed by mild hops. A light Abby Tripel, but easy drinking.
Poured with a golden/copper body, lightly hazed and moderately effervesced, under a fast fading yellowhite head. Its bouquet is not "huge" as described, but predominantly pale malt with a hint of sweet taffy, a touch of tart fruity yeast, and growing acetone as it warms. Flavor finds a fruity sweetness on a slightly sticky body. There is a combination of flavor vs. palate that makes this (for lack of a better word)... dull. There is no "punch", there is no allure. I don’t crave another, in fact I’m grabbing a glass of water to wash away the remnants of semi-cloying sugars and unripened banana from the roof of my mouth.
I know Sprecher can do better than this so I don't know why something like this beer is out there. Appearance is a fizzy short-lived off-white head with no lace and a clear amber color. Aroma is malt caramel and solvents. Flavor is like aroma but worse and includes Band-Aids, carbonic tang, little bitterness, and the thought that I really don't like this. Body is okay.
OK for style but not amazing. Booze too prominent. Golden pour with OK head and lacing. Light sweet finish. Some coriander. Bottle.
Bottle from warehouse package...nutty aroma...smooth, thick flavor, chocolaty...reminds me of Christmas
Bottle, pours a very murky orangey brown. Smells of sweet caramel, apple. Taste is also very sweet and buttery, caramel and apple.
Appearance: Warm gold color with a lot of carbonation bubbles. The abundant carbonation does not support a head at all. A white fizzy head appears and fades with the consistency of soda. The beer is slightly hazy, where shapes can be made through it but it is obviously not clear.
Aroma: The beer has pear-like aromas with a slight hint of noble hops. It is pleasing to the nose but faint. I would say it is fairly average.
Taste: At first I notice a slight tart presence accompanied by a light bitter and earthy hop flavor. Some apple flavor floating around as well. There is a hint of paper flavor in the aftertaste leading me to think it could be a bit oxidized. There is a hint of wheat in the aftertaste which is more pleasant.
Palate: It is fairly lively on the palate given the amount of fizzy carbonation that is present. It finishes fairly dry, yet somehow leaves a sticky sensation around the mouth.
O: Overall I was not impressed with the beer. The drinking experience just wasn’t as pleasant to me as it is with other tripels.
A nice triple. Pours a dark golden. Aromas of Belgian candy. Nice sweet candy flavors with a boozy finish. Quite nice.
Tap at the 2014 OBF. Pours hazy orange gold with a beige head. Lots of banana ester in the aroma. Med + body. Flavor is rather sweet with fruit esters and a little hop. Decent triple.
On draught at 27th Annual Oregon Brewers Festival. Full golden color. Aroma is toffee, caramel, and honey. Taste is sticky sweet honey, frosted flakes, and plum. Very sweet, but I like that sort of thing.
Ugh. Sprecher managed to screw up my favorite style of beer. Taste is more like a quad than a triple. Too much metallic flavor. Aroma is non-existent. I am sticking to their Amber brew if I ever drink Sprecher again.
Golden pour small bubbled white head. Candied sugars wheat a bit bland. Avg palate. Overly sweet... Forgettable.
12 oz bottle served in a Belgian snifter.
Pours hazy orange-amber with a small head that soon reduces to a few islands and a thin ring.
Aroma: fairly good mix of bready malts, toast, Belgian yeast, and soft fruits.
Flavor: fruity and bready, with light spicing from the yeast.
Feel: slightly astringent; a bit hot with the higher ABV too apparent.
This a slightly tart beer. It has a medium-light body and a somewhat short aftertaste. Flavors are a sweet banana, tangerine, and orange
bottle. Hazy pale golden with small head. Very sweet with some booze. Some belgian yeastiness, but everything is just overwhelmed by the sweetness. Unbalanced.
Pours medium gold with no head to speak of. Smells of vanilla, cloves, orange peel, and cinnamon. Sweet throughout with flavors of fruitcake, brown sugar, and a hint of pear. Slightly hopped finish, but far from dry. A solid if not outstanding Belgian style beer.
Bottle. Pours a deep golden color with a thin white head that dissapates quickly. Aromas of banana, sweet malt and mild earthy hops. Taste is candy sweet with strong malt and and some light spice. Crisp dry finish.
From a 12 oz bottle poured in a tulip. Extremely sweet candy aroma. Sweet light bubblegum flavor with yeast and wheat flavor. More of a sweet wheat ale than a true triple. Clean slightly yeasty finish. Does hide its ABV very well. Not awful but I probably won’t buy again.