Broeder Jacob Bruin

Brewed by Brasserie Du Bocq
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Purnode-Yvoir, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

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(Bottled) Clear, dark reddish brown with a small, fading head. Aroma of sweetish malt, dried fruit, and anise. Flavor is slightly sweet, dried-fruity, some berryish notes, anise. Medium body, slightly fizzy CO2. Not bad, just a bit bland and maybe slightly thin.

Draught@Tuulensuu, Tampere. Murky brown colour with a mediumsized beige head. Aroma is caramel, toffee, berries, yeast and mild spices. Flavour is rather similar with some mild alcohol as well. Tonguetickling carbonation.

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Nice brown colour with nice head, taste is smokey and liquorice like, yeasty on the palate

(bottle, 33cl) Slightly hazy, brown colour with a beige and loose foamy head. Slightly sugary and dusty roast-malty aroma with molassy notes of Bavarian Blockmalz bonbons. Sweet and slightly bitter flavour, medium to full bodied with a moderate carbonation. Roasty malt-character with notes of burnt candy, caramel; sweet and slightly sticky malty finish with a well-masked alcoholic level. 03.IV.12

Sampled at Antwerp beer festival. Brown pour with a tan head. Aroma of malt and dark fruit. Sweet, fruity and spice flavour. Medium carbonation and body.

Bottle. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is malt, sugar, hop, dried fruit. Flavour is malt, sugar, hop, dried fruit, caramel. Medium body. OK beer.

Bottle. Frothy off-white good mostly deminishing head. Brown colour. Moderate malty and hopy and yeasty aroma. MOderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Nic e fruity notes. Creamy palate.

Bottle. Dark brown, small and fully diminishing light brown head. Medium, malty and sugary sweet aroma, caramel and some dark fruits. Body is medium, malty and sweetish flavor, some caramel, light dark fruits, faint spiciness (coriander) and faint alcohol. Finish is average, malty and sweetish, some caramel and faint fruitiness, faint spiciness and some alcohol. Caramel sweetish dubbel - really nothing special.

Bottle: Medium thicker but lively beige tan colored head which disappears quite slowly and leaves a vast and closed beige/tan lacing on top of a cloudy ruby colored beer. Smell some dirty/nasty malts, fruit (apple and melon), yeast, barley malts and spices (orange peel and pepper). Taste is better than the Jacob Tripel, still not interesting and this one is still on the weak side. The mouthfeel is quite lively and spicy and causes the entire taste to vanish pretty quick. Just some notes of barley malts, caramel, light yeasty fruity hints of apple, raisin, some light toasted hay and some sharper herbs. A light to medium bitterness and there seems to be some kind of soda drink but than the light version, touch to this beer. It leaves a short aftertaste of herbs, hay and some malt. Medium to full carbo, lively tingly spicy mouthfeel, medium body and a texture between watery and creamy.

75cl bottle. Pours a dark brown with thick tanned head. Nose : Roasted malts with a chocolate and little toffee notes. Strong aromas of yeast that feels like cheetos. Some dried fruits. Sip : Low density with oily texture. It has a tingling carbonation. It’s sweet and very mild overall taste. It develops just a bit bitter notes of coffee and hops in the background. The aftertaste is mellow bitter watery coffee. Overall : extra points for being my first beer today otherwise it’s too mild and lacking some fun in drinking it. One think I adore about the Broeder Jacob beers it’s the glass. It’s a wonderful tasting glass that has the capacity to hold the nose aromas even better then the tulip. Extra points there too.