Tallgrass Velvet Rooster
This beer is a Belgian Tripel that lives up to its name. Smooth and
carefully crafted like a fine velvet painting, but with an 8.5% ABV
this bird has some spurs! The beer pours a golden straw color with
brilliant clarity. Topped with a lofty pure white head the beer has a
wonderful floral nose, with subtle fruit notes. The taste is clean and
crisp, with subtle fruit notes and a touch of candy like sweetness. The
beer has a Champagne-like effervescent that provides a crisp offset
to its sweet finish. While a pint glass is always nice, Velvet Rooster
would also be at home in a tulip glass or Champagne flute.
Something to crow about.
carefully crafted like a fine velvet painting, but with an 8.5% ABV
this bird has some spurs! The beer pours a golden straw color with
brilliant clarity. Topped with a lofty pure white head the beer has a
wonderful floral nose, with subtle fruit notes. The taste is clean and
crisp, with subtle fruit notes and a touch of candy like sweetness. The
beer has a Champagne-like effervescent that provides a crisp offset
to its sweet finish. While a pint glass is always nice, Velvet Rooster
would also be at home in a tulip glass or Champagne flute.
Something to crow about.
3.4
214 reviews
Manhattan, United States
Community reviews
Pours a hazy golden copper with a foamy white head. Aroma is bubblegum, banana, fruit, and other yeast aromas. Flavor is sweet bubblegum, banana, and fruit. Highly-carbonated. This is okay. As another reviewer notes, does not drink, taste, or smell like a tripel.
12 ounce can into chalice, best before 7/8/2017. Pours slightly hazy deep golden/amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big peach, apricot, melon, lemon, pear, apple, pepper, light banana/clove, honey, candi sugar, wheat, biscuit, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big peach, apricot, melon, lemon, pear, apple, pepper, light banana/clove, honey, candi sugar, wheat, biscuit, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal bitterness and yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of peach, apricot, melon, lemon, pear, apple, pepper, banana, clove, honey, candi sugar, wheat, biscuit, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from bitter/spiciness, increasing through the glass. Medium-high carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp, bready/grainy/creamy, and lightly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 8.5%. Overall this is an excellent tripel! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and pretty refreshing to drink. A touch on the malty side for the style; but still has impressive complexity and balance, with adequate carbonation and dryness. A really enjoyable offering.
(473ml can) Pours a hazy yellow body with a medium egg white head. Aroma of yeast, basil, pepper, pineapple, citrus, and banana. Flavor of pepper, coriander, minerals, light sulfur, and citrus.
Gold color with a thin white head. Aroma is sweet fruit, floral hops, and yeast. Flavor is sweet fruit, dry hops, and funk.
16 oz. can at Black Sabbath concert in Omaha on 1-20-16. Drank from can. Aroma was fruity, spices and yeast. Taste was syrupy sweet and mild bitter. Not bad.
Robe orangée et opaque, peu de mousse.
Le blé est bien pésent. Arômes d’agrumes, biscuit, banane et levure. Goût de levure prononcé, banane et clou de girofle. Texture liquoreuse, carbonatation fine. Longue en bouche.
Une tripe originale.
I dig this brewery, but this is not a very well constructed triple in my opinion. Tastes like a super sweet pale ale with some poorly pitched belgian yeast. Hints of popsicle sticks.
473ml can (Beertopia, Omaha) - thanks Frank!
Sweet sickly sticky aroma, some sweet fruity aspects, tinned tomatoes later. Nice gold, brief head. Woh, there’s booze in the taste. Heavy palate, slick and sweet and sticky. Sweet malts, bitter hops, metal, unsophisticated, and made even less pleasant through the blast of fusels. Very rough. A million miles from a tripel. More like trampfuel.
500ml can (thanks Anna’s daddy). Clear amber color. Medium size, white head, stays. Looks fizzy. Surprisingly malty, sweet, faint vegetables in aroma. Mashy aroma. Sweet, Belgian yeast, herbal hops, alcohol in taste. Sweet mashy malts in aftertaste. Medium alcoholic hoppy bitterness. Messy brew.
Nice flavors and aromas of floral, sweetness and hints of fruit with a Belgian spice on the finish. Straw color with a sparkling appearance. Medium weight with a certain fullness.
Draft.
A- Peaches, candy, slightly sweet, wheat, stone fruits.
A- Golden orange color, hazy liquid, white head.
T- Pineapple, peaches, white wine, slightly sweet, subtle floral notes.
P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, refreshing finish.
O- Didn’t ever expect a Tripel to be like this. Maybe I just haven’t tried enough. Tons of nice fruit tones and very refreshing. Kind of wish I would’ve had more.
Can:
Slightly hazy, golden-amber with a small white head.
Peach, lemon scent.
Taste is mildly yeasty, fruit.....sweet with a pronounced fruit-peel bittering.
Not too boozy, nor too sweet....pretty good.
Can. Lactic lemon malt, hay, and light astringent aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Sweet orange, lemon, malt, and moderately bitter astringent herbal flavor. Pretty good.
Can. Pours hazy yellow with white head. Aroma is bready and cereal malts, light Belgian yeast notes, faint floral notes, and soft spice. Flavor is lightly sweet malt character, citrus hops, faint spice, and some Belgian yeast notes. Medium body.
Tall Boy into a pint glass. Pours a hazy straw color, with a large white head that persists. Good lacing. Nose is Belgian yeast and a hint of grass. Taste is mildly sweet with subtle spice notes underneath. Quite tasty, but would have rated higher without the strange, slightly metallic aftertaste.
A hazy yellow pour with a white head. The aroma has lightly spiced hop notes with some mild fruit. It has a light body with oily texture and lively carbonation. The taste is mildly sweet with a smooth finish.
Can. Hazy golden pour with a white head. Aroma is malty with a touch of spice. Flavor is malt forward with some yeast notes and some spice/fruit in the finish. Decent.
This is my first Tripel from a can. It pours a somewhat hazy golden body with a substantial creamy head. It has an aroma of green cherries, floral scents, and some underlying citrus fruit. The flavor is a delicate blending of the preceding. Add to the mix a soft zest/pip bitterness. The finish is dry and mildly bitter. Pretty decent stuff.
Not a BAD beer, just not a good tripel.
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Pretty good tripel, though nothing earth shattering. Finishes a tad hot, but it is 8.5% after all. Not much on the nose, but I’m also pounding it from the can, so I’m not following proper beer nerd protocol of pouring it into a Duvel glass. All the same, it is what it says on the can and no more.
Decent Belgium brew. Having it at North Restaurant in Leawood, KS. Fruity aroma with a golden color and nice palate. Overall not a bad brew.
Light yellow color. The aroma doesn’t catch me, but the flavor goes an interesting direction: a little musty, woody, and fruity, too. Hop finish, but smooth. (at Ale Jail Anniversary Party 2014)
Aroma is typical of any tripel - orange, coriander, metal. Flavor is watery but it sure packs an unexpected alcyhol punch
can @ John’s Grocery / Iowa City IA --- Clear light amber color with a big bubbly 2" white head slowly drops to a thick cover, lots of narrow bands of lace. Taste is caramel malt that adds assertive citrus hops in the palate, then turning things back over to the malt until the finish, where the citrus lightly trails in to linger for a long time. A solid brew, but I would never guess it was an Abbey Triple.
On tap in Grand Forks. Strong aroma of sweet corn, like cream corn with vanilla added or something. A bit of Belgian candy. Doesn’t have that same effervescent quality of some triples. Still, this had a nice flavour that I quite enjoyed. A solid tripel.
A nice tripel. Pours a vibrant golden with spotty lacing. Aromas are corn syrup and Belgian candy. Flavors are similar with a hoppy finish.
Can. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a fair head and bits of lacing. Aroma of citrus, floral with a bit of fruit. Taste is of a mild fruit sweetness, citrus and touch of spice. Mild bitterness and a clean finish. Moderate body, crisp with a slight fruity sweetness. Nice beer.
16 oz. can. Pleasant, meaty aroma features scents of caramel, peach, candy sugar, and orange. The smell is definitely that of an American imitation of a Belgian ale not a true Belgian ale. Initially pours a clear, bright gold with effervescent liquid. Later pours a cloudy light brass / light tan with a small to moderate amount of beige head. Dry and spicy atop a fundamentally quite sweet flavor. Also herbal and vegetal. Flavor elements include candy, black pepper, lemon zest, pear, and peach. Alcohol taste noticeable. Simple flavors. Lively in the palate. Medium to full body. Fine but forgettable palate effects. Overall, Tallgrass Velvet Rooster is not a very good beer, and I am disappointed in it. It tastes like a brew from some subpar local brewery new to the market, not the output of a respect regional craft brewer. It’s not actively bad, but there is little to recommend it.
This was pretty much a very solid trippel, not anything overly great but a good tripel, loads of fruit esters and some sweetness while maintaining a slightly light body with the alcohol being well hidden
Slightly hazy golden color with a decent white head that doesn’t stay around long but does leave a bit of lacing. The aroma is light malt, biscuits, yeast, hints of apple and cloves. The taste is similar, yeast, biscuits, slight fruitiness with a spicy , somewhat floral finish. A little different than a Belgian Tripel, but that’s not necessarily bad. Medium bodied, very smooth and easily drinkable, alcohol content is barely noticeable. Altogether it is enjoyable and worth a try, probably the best tripel from Kansas, at least.