Bornem Dubbel

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

Serve in Trappist glass

Poured a Dark, Dark red. Tan head that last a while. Fruity aroma. Ends up pretty smooth with a good amount of alcoholl. A good Dubbel.

33 cl bottle. Cloudy brown beer with ruby highlights, tan head. Aroma is quite fruity. Plum and cherry brown sugar and a rotted peach character as well that isn’t especially pleasant. Flavour is quite sweet, malty with plums and cherries, light spiciness, clove/nutmeg and a great minty finish. Palate is not terribly rich and it seems a bit overcarbonated. It’s decent, but there are enough things that don’t really work for me.

Pours a cloudy brown with a frothy white head. Malty smooth and somewhat shallow at first, but finishes slightly bitter. Smooth and easy to drink, pleasant, but not the most eventfull ale.

A rather attractive brew! Pours a light bronze body… filled with gleaming edges of gold and amber; the head was a tower of an foam. Doughy, yeasty, buttery and a lightly toasted body… Notes of toffee malt, pumpernickel bread, with some plums and apricot for the fruit basket. Decent beer but it was just as average as the label on the bottle.

Bottle. Cinnamon, brown sugar, bready malt aroma. Cloudy orange-brown color with moderate head (looks more like iced tear than coffee). Sharp taste up front - bites the tongue which fades into a sour brown sugar/cinnamon bread flavor. High carbonation. LIttle alcohol bite at all.

This copper-colored ale poured with an immense foamy head, eliciting an aroma of fruit and spice. The flavor is malty and a bit sour, with a spicy finish. A decent, but unremarkable version of Dubbel.

Poured a dark copper with a heavy rocky white head that looked like meringue. Nose was of cherries and pear. Palate is sharp but sweetly smooths out. Flavour is wonderfully complex...woody yet with a sweetness. The alcohol is hidden nicely.

33cl bottle - pours a hazy, ruby-brown with a massive, pillowy head that towered out of the Chimay goblet I poured it into. Nice. Aroma of ripe fruit, a little bit sour, and a bready/yeasty character. Flavour is immediately sour and fruity - almost instantly reminded me of a Flemish sour ale, and this beer is sort of like a cross between one of those and an Abbey Dubbel, though the sour qualities became less present through the glass. Unique, but quite nice. Mouthfeel is nice and frothy. Grapes, plums, and some spicing in there as well. I love a Belgian beer with a good "fresh bread" aroma and taste and this delivers some of that. Otherwise, it’s not the very best Dubbel out there, but it’s certainly a good one. The sourness is different, but in no way does it seem "wrong". Left a lot of nice lacing in the glass. Good stuff!