Having gone through such a significant batch of Canadian brews, I can now take a moment of a few weeks to turn my head back at the US. The theme is also relevant due to a few buddies of mine just returning from a lengthy road trip of the States where they provided our beer club with a vast number of useful video reviews. Should they ever make them public, rest assured that they will be linked here. While that may or may not occur, Ammmmurrican beers it is!
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The Victory brewing company made its debut here on BT over two years ago with their nifty HopDevil IPA so it’s about time this fine Pennsylvania brewery gets some more attention from us. Indeed, good things do come out of Pennsylvania in spite of the Flyers and the Penguins.
As I understand, the Golden Monkey tripel ale made some good hype upon its introdction in the US, hype that has since either been lauded or criticized. I certainly enjoy my Belgian-style ales and I duly enjoyed this primeape as well. Right off the bat, a strong waft of spices and warmth rammed its way through, corainder and cloves in the forefront. Fruitiness was present as well, some banana and maybe even apricots. The expected yeast came in the aftertaste with some added pungent sweetness. A really dynamic doozy all around. As far as the ABV goes, Golden Gorilla might be a more fitting name as the 9,5% voltage packs the appropriate wallop. Still smooth though, so trying more than one or two bottles a night might prove treacherous. Yes I have enjoyed better tripels but that doesn’t diminish this innovative doozy. Consider me on board with the hype and basically flabbergasted at any harder, “just good not great”-criticism leveled at this one. I’ll give this a junglebooking 87.
Keep on brewin’
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