22oz from trader Joes. Good looking dark blond coloration. High carbonation. Little white head, doesn’t stay. Smells very Belgian. Nice spice. This may actually be too carbonated. I like the flavor. This is good not great.

I’m enjoying all the breweries popping up in this area. This is my first from Solemn Oath. It pours a clear golden bronze body with a bubbly white head. The aroma is juicy with stone fruit, both light and dark, mildly sweet, and quite inviting. The flavor adds a soft grain sweetness, has a tasty fruitiness, and blends in a quiet earthy bitterness to balance it out. It finishes with a meeting of the sweet and bitter, the latter lingering for quite a while. Very nice. This certainly won’t be my last beer from Solemn Oath.

22 oz. botle. Pours a clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma of fruity yeast with grassy hop notes. Flavor is mildly bitter with bright sweet Belgian yeast notes. Medium sweetness. Medium body with lively carbonation. Finishes with some hoppiness. Pretty nice tripel, especially for an american version.

Draft on tap at the brewery (Naperville, IL). Quick stop in doing some errands. Got a full draft of this even wary as I am of Tripels and especially American interpretations of them. That said, here goes. Pours a deeper orange amber hue, some darker orange in the middle, subtle haziness tapers out to near transparency. Nice deep harvest glow. A frothy offwhite head dies down to a mellow filmy layer, laces small. Aromas are bready malts, doughy and fruity esters pop in and out, fresh apples and pears, a gentle kiss of banana, candi sugar is subtle. Grainy, bread, a bit warm. Gentle dryness, yeast, and sweetness. Touch earthy, not as aggressive as anticipated with that sweetness, perhaps a fusel-like apple liquor strength at times in gentle flashes that makes you think a little harder. Initial is medium bodied, fruity apple, sweet and tart, Golden Delicious, gentle honey and candi sugar. Some dough, straw, and gentle yeasty spice. A touch tart and fruity, the middle shows a touch of girth, honeycrisp, gentle warmth, grainy malt and sweetness. A bit cidery, yeasty and a toouch dry. Some straw, grain as we taper out, a bit of a prickly cidery feel, mellow carbonation. That more intense (but not overly sweet) tart apple and estery element tapers off back here. A touch warm, cidery, and dry as we finish up. Lingering fruit, jabs of apple and faint orange. Solid stuff. The body seems well fermented, a touch dry and spicy. The sweetness stays at bay, a major problem with a lot of American versions out there. Solid, a bit lighter and less sweet than anticipated, some lively yeast and fuzziness into the backend, but nothing overwhelming or that takes the beer over. While I don’t much personally care for this style, I can say if I had to drink a Tripel around Chicagoland, this would be one of the ones I’d choose. Not bad.