Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Batch 132 Tripel tasting notes

Cold

Pours all head, way overcarbed, hazy gold with white head

Aroma dull yeast with slight tang, big sweet malt

Mouthfeel toothy odd coating

Flavor odd/bad yeasty flavor, bitterness with some odd dead yeast thing, malt on top.  Not really warm, but alcohol flavor, and quick buzz.

Finish spoiled yeast at back end, along with yeast bitterness.

Overall, yuck.  Clearly under-pitched and under-attenuated, finished in bottle with stressed yeast, need to spend more time with this yeast getting it started.  How to choke down 2 cases?

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