Brunehaut Abbaye de Saint-Martin Brune

Brewed by Brunehaut
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Rongy, Belgium

[This appears to be my 150th from Belgium.] Bottle, different than pictured. Sweet, indistinctly malty nose with mild yeasty nose. Body is dark ruby, so dark that it approaches black, with a dense and firm rocky tan head that sticks around. Taste is malty, a little grape in with finishing bread, light raisin, plum, and black currant, but this thing is way too fresh, needs far more time to develop. Yeast has some good potential, nicely mixes fruit with mineral water. Medium0full body, lightly dry and very smooth.

Bottle. Vibrant black beer with a ruby reddish port look. The aroma is malty and mildly port like, and the flavour is malty, roasted and slightly yeasty. Overall a nice fortified malty tasting roasted beer.

330ml Bottle: Aroma of malts, slight cocoa, slight overcooked cauliflower, and slight yeast. I do not smell the dark ripe fruits that other seem to perceive. Poured dark brown/very deep amber in color with a large, loose, tan head that diminished but lasted throughout. Cloudy. Sparkling. Flavor is neither sweet nor bitter. Tastes of malts, vegetables, yeast, and herbs. Medium body. Average to lively (tingly texture). Average to lively carbonation. Malt and yeast finish. 8%ABV is hidden throughout.

Bottle. Interesting, an Abbey beer I have never heard of before . . . and therefore not previously viewed the rating of! Well, here goes my “unbiased” take: pours murky mud brown with a smallish off white head. Aroma of prunes, hot chocolate, and raisins. Earthy, dried dark fruits, not a bad start. Flavor is just odd, though. The dark raisiny fruit and chocolate components are there, and dare I say, at times (parts of sips, that is), it is vaguely reminiscent of esteemed Belgian Browns such as Westy 8, Struise, Westmalle Dubbel -- but somehow things just don’t come together for this beer. It ends up tasting thin, fruity-but-unclean, with hints of DMS. Like I said, some sips yielded a decent beer. But others were riddled with conventional and unconventional flavor flaws that I found distracting. I can’t make up my mind on this one, but I’ll go with my gut, which is telling me that I really didn’t enjoy drinking this beer all that much.

Near black colored with red hints, little beige head. Rich suragy and plummy aroma with some herbal touch, some interesting berry-vinous touch also here. Thin alcohol comes up too. Medium bodied. Flavor is more licoricy with same plummy-sugary tone, thin roastiness also here. Aftertaste is sweet still with only slight alcohol.

Dark brown cloudiness in the body with a big tan head. Great lacing. Lots of spice, smoke, yeast, and raisins in the smell. Taste was the same with notes of nuts and butter. High carbonation. Fun beer to drink.

Muddy brown with a nice fizzy head. Aroma of dark dried fruit dominates. Flavor is classic sweet fruits and malt with a little smokiness in there. Nice refreshing fizzy mouth feel.

Brown coloured beer with medium off-white head and lots of carbonation. Malty hoppy aroma. Full creamy palate. Finish is rasted biter though soft fnish. Ok.