Abbaye de Malonne Brune

Brewed by Haacht
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Boortmeerbeek, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

Bottle @ Delirium, Brussels.
Pours deep chestnut brown with a giant, creamy, beige head. Really good looking. Aroma is sweet, raisins, plums, light caramel and milky chocolate. Highish carbonation, fine creamy and a bit light palate. Flavour is sweet, light grainy, mild oxidation, caramel, fine chocolate, plums and prunes. Fine dry finish. Okay.

Bottled@The 2nd ES/CS Beer Tasting. (thanks GV!). Deep brown hazy colour with a mediumsized fluffy beige head that leaves lace. Aroma is rather malty along with burnt sugar and some yeastyness. Flavour is sweet malts, dark dry fruits, some burnt sugar as well as mild toffee and yeastyness.

Brown colour with a creamy beige head Aroma is dark fruit and alcohol. Flavor is very sugar-sweet with raisin and some caramel notes. Good warm finish.

Bottled. A reddish brown beer with a medium beige head. Aroma is sweet and fruity, notes of caramel and spices. Taste is malty and sweet, notes of caramel, brown sugar. Low bitterness.

Bottle on tap at 1900 Amsterdam. Amber body with large head. Malty and caramel nose. Taste is also malts, quite sweet and yummy. Oily feel. Warm finish. Well done.

Nearly black with thin head. Phenolic nose is intense with nail polish remover but somehow it works. Has a good body. Chocolate undertones and candied marachino cherry overtones.

Dark chestnut brown. Fruity (raisin, date), phenolic, light alcohol and background phenols in the aroma. Has a sweet character, like a date and orange-infused pekmez. Perfumey finish remains quite sweet. Good, if limited beer.

Darkbrown coloured beer with medium off white head and lots of carbonation. Malty roasted aroma. Full sparkling and creamy palate. Finish is roasted bitter ending dry.