Having just brewed my own Belgian Tripel, I was eager to pick up an American version of the same beer and see how mine compared. And wouldn't you know it, the first beer I saw when entering a local store was a Trippel (2 P's) by Green Flash Brewing Co.The label jogged my memory and I thought I had a hefeweizen from this brewery, but don't see it on their website. Nonetheless, it's safe to say I'm pretty unfamiliar with this brewing company out of San Diego, California, which translates to the whale's...you know...anyway...
I'll preface this by saying that it's quite possible that this beer was sitting on the shelf for a while and it was near the window so it could have been affected by the sunlight. Furthermore, I'm understandably biased when comparing against a beer I make but I consider myself to be a pretty fair guy. Can you see where I'm heading with this?
I was not a fan. There are very few beers that I can't find something good about, macro nonsense aside. There was just a bad aftertaste with this beer. It had a funky sweetness to it that I just did not enjoy and it didn't change throughout the 22 oz. of it that I drank. You can't win them all though. That said, this beer stated it was 8.5% and the Green Flash website clocks it at 9.7% (along with 3 awards) so perhaps they changed the recipe? Either way, I'm definitely open to, and probably will be, trying other offerings from Green Flash Brewing.
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