Bornem Dubbel

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Ertvelde, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

Pours a deep red with a huge head that dissipated quick. Smells like it’s gonna be sweet, guess what? It is. The high carbonation makes it a bit prickly on the tongue, which is nice. Taste is mainly malty with a dark fruits blended in. Watery mouthfeel after it goes down. Not much complexity in this one. A decent Dubbel, but I’ve had much better offerings from this style.

Stated 7%ABV on my bottle which poured deep brown with some red highlights with beige head with some fine lacing. Aromas of fruit, caramel and yeast. Taste is malty sweet up front with some yeast and hop bitterness in the finish. Carbonation and body are respectable for the style, perhaps a little on the thin side.

Pours amber from tap with some estery things on the tongue. Slight yeastiness on the tongue but it’s rather subdued. Clean finisher. Good beer but mediocre for a Belgian.

Very good. But there are better ones. (This beer rating was imported from FB and unfortunately lacks any further comments.)

33 cl bottle. Rated on 9.8.2008.
Aroma has banana and spices. Flavour is rather spicy and has sweetish malt with hints of banana. Actually more dunkelweisse. It seems that there are good and bad bottles and mine was definitely not very good.

Bottle. Maroon color, off white head. Aroma of caramel, peanuts, hazelnuts. Taste is malty but not too sweet. Not bad.

Rating from April 2011. The pour is a dark mahogany brown with red highlights. A thick two finger cap of dark beige head that stays around forever. The nose is fruity and malty with a predominant bread and estery yeast. Taste is composed of light caramel, bready malts, some dark fruits such as raisin, nuts and a finish of moderate yeast. Alcohol is somewhat detectable on the finish. overall, a fairly good dubbel.

Dark brown color, not black. Little hints of fruits in the smell, also roasty. Taste is good, carbonation full but good as well.