3.9/5
AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
12 ounce bottle into chalice, no bottle dating. Pours cloudy golden amber color with a nice fairly dense 1 finger white head with good retention that reduces to a thin cap. Minimal lacing clings to the glass; and a fair amount of carbonation is streaming up from the bottom. Aromas of heavy clove, banana, bubblegum, lemon, pepper, apricot, candi sugar, bread, and spicy yeast. Some nice and complex aromas going on here; much like a wheat beer in some aspects as well. Taste of big lemon, biscuit, banana, clove, pepper, apricot, tart grain, and spicy yeast. Lingering notes of biscuit, lemon, apricot, pepper, clove, and spicy yeast on the finish for a bit. Nice balance of flavor, with no cloying sweetness. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a lightly syrupy mouthfeel that is not a bad thing at all. Alcohol is well hidden with only a warming on the finish. Good drinkability, but it is still a sipper. Overall this is a very nice Tripel offering. Nice complexity and balance; and very enjoyable stuff.
A very nice offering from Dragonmead, which is another local offering around these parts. They make a couple other ones in bottles I would like to try soon. Wouldn't mind going down to Warren and checking out the brewpub either.
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