Allagash Dubbel Reserve

Brewed by Allagash Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Portland, Maine USA

Bottle. Pours dark brown with thick brown head. Aroma is bready with some apples and cinnamon. Flavor is fruity with some coffee notes. Light and bubbly on the palate. Very nice.

75cl bottle. My first Allagash beer, and a decent dubbel. Good looking beer: a slightly hazy brown body with some red tint, covered by a big beige head. Interesting spiced cake aroma with banana and citrus zest, maple and caramel, and plenty of yeast character. The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly fruity, with some caramel and nutty malt. The finish is mild to moderately bitter with some spicy hops, dry, and a bit light. The body is light and airy. this one definitely benefits from warming up a bit and releasing some of its ample carbonation. Mixing the yeast in adds some more complex, nutty, woody flavors. A bit subtle, but I really warmed up to this by the end. Dubbel is a style that I don*t drink too often, but it*s what started me on Belgians in the beginning, and its always nice to find a new, solid example of the style.

375ml bottle, batch 32. Pours a dark brownish-amber color with a thin beige head that disapates quickly. Patchy lacing on the glass. Dried fruit and light chocolate in the nose, with a touch of hops. Medium-bodied and smooth with a faint nutty character, and flavors of fruit, chocolate and malt. The finish is lightly spiced with a malty aftertaste that lingers awhile. An above average dubbel that I would recomend.

Ruddy brown pour with very thin tan head. Nose is dried dark fruits, caramel and some yeast influence. Flavor is quite the same but less full. Slight spice finish.

Dark amber, malty, dark fruits, brown sugar, molasses, caramel, little nutty, little spice, dry finish.

Appearance: Murky ruby brown, small head. Aroma: Smoke and malt, some tiny amount of hops detected too. Flavour: Bitter with malt, peppers and dark fruit. Quite a dry finish

25 oz. bottle .Batch 70. Pours a thick, lasting, tan head of good duration, some minimal lacing....over a dark coppery brown body....nose of malts in multiple layers with some hop spice, bit of cherry, not sweet.... taste is initially rather light, then sweet malts, with some further fruits, raisin and cherry, finishes with lingering hop bitterness....mouth feel is a little lighter than expected. 11/26/2008

Brown pour. Small tan head. Aroma is chocolate, cherries, some toffee and yeast. Flavor is sweetish, honey, yeast and some sweet malt. Nice beer from USA.