4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Abita, oh Abita with my low expectations you have wow’d me! You had me at hell yeah! This poured a brown color with a beige head. The aroma is nutty with some caramel, cherries, and toffee. The flavor is a bit sweet with some caramel, toffee, cherries, oak. This is sweet and sour and better than many Belgian made Dubbles I’ve had. Holy crap I love being totally wrong about beer expectations.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
nuts, brown, hazy, medium sweetness, very bitter, medium body, slick feel, lively, bitter,
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
First the executive summary: Take a typical Abby Dubbel, and add a woody taste, *WAY* up front to the tastes typically present in a dubbel, and you’ve got this beer. Now, the full review: Poured a cloudy maroon color with a medium sized head with lots of persistence. Nose of plums, prunes, roasted malts, and wood. Wood was way out front in the taste, apparently picked up from the wooden cask in which the beer was conditioned, with notes of dark fruit, typical of a dubbel, behind the woody taste. Short, understated bitter hop finish. This was an interesting American/Louisiana twist on an abby dubbel, and was really quite good! Abita doesn’t publish the ABV but it’s probably high; two pints of this stuff kicked me in the ass.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours a three finger off-white head that fades slowly leaving a good lace. Clear mahogany/amber color. Good carbonation and medium bodied. Dark fruit nose. Flavor is sweet and sour dark fruit - that’s different but it is very drinkable. Higher ABV is hidden. $3.99 for a 22oz bottle from Beverage Warehouse Winooski, VT.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
22oz bottle. Hazy orange copper color, light brown soapy head. fruity aroma of dates, clove. fruity flavor has a nice rich malt character, clove, sweet raisins. Lots of sugars. Alcohol is very well hidden.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
From a bomber, purchased from Siciliano’s in Grand Rapids, February 2011. No dating on bottle, so not sure of vintage.
Pours deep garnet with a medium head, moderate lacing that leaves a nice trail on the glass. Nose is ripe fruit, grape, bready malt. Medium body, slightly oily, a bit creamy. Nice, zippy carbonation. Palate starts with some nice fruity sweetness and finishes slightly tart and malty with some Belgian yeast notes. Hints of pepper and clove underlay the fruity, malty characteristics. A really solidly composed dubbel and a good beer overall.
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
This is a delicious dark ale with a creamy beige head, nutty aroma, and dark amber and somewhat cloudy appearance. The taste is very bready and caramel notes are present. It has a heavy mouth feel, but no alcohol taste was detected. It is very strong, however, so one is warned. Should pair well with spicy foods or even better as simply a stand-alone beer.
RJT
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
big sweet belgian malts .. . molasses, cloves, dubbel aromas .. . "you hooked it" .. . 2 finger head .. . low med bitterness. . . well balanced .. . quite sweet, pretty clean . . a perfect intro to the style .. . like a baby chimay red in a strange way .. . ’i gotta no job, mama mia’ .. . nicest dubbels i’ve had in quite a while..or ever in fact..
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