Bullfrog Diabolique

Brewed by Bullfrog Brewery
Style: Belgian Ale
Williamsport, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Date: 07/24/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

hazy gold, wispy white head, streak of lace, sweet fruity estery aroma with light spicyness, lots of sweet Belgian candy flavor, a yeastyness adds support for the sweetness, light spices blend well with the yeastiness for a balanced finish

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

(750ml bottle) Pours a cloudy golden body with a medium off-white head. Aroma of yeast, citrus, apricot, honeycomb, and caramel. Flavor of yeast, candi sugar, hops (floral, citrus), and light banana.

(750ml bottle, thanks kmweaver) Soft, large white head atop cloudy apple juice body. Aroma is medium sweet, straw, yeast, some peach, light bread. Taste is medium sweet, straw, alcohol, peach. Effervescent medium body, light acidity.

Sampled from Growler. Poured a medium and clear orange color with an averaged sized white head. Fruity aromas with citrus, yeast, and caramel. Tastes of fruits, caramel, bananas, and citrus. Light alcohol in the finish.

Tasted at Belgium Comes to Cooperstown, July 16, 2005. Hazy light golden ale. Light sweet malt with orange peels in aroma. Fresh sweet malt and coriander and orange peels, with hops and alcohol warmth in finale.

Bottle shared by kmweaver on 8/7/08: Pours a slightly hazy deep golden with a large frothy-lacing off-white head. Aroma of sweet biscuity malts and Belgian yeast with some floral noble hops and light fruity esters. Starts with a nice malty sweetness and good balance of earthy bittering hops before a drier, fairly full semi-dry finish. A good Belgian ale.

750ml bottle from the brewery. With a loud pop of the cork (leaving a dent in my ceiling), it scared me for a second but it didn’t gush at all... from the bottle it pours a cloudy, soft golden orange with a firm, thick and foamy off-white head, standing tall and morphing into sea foam much like a true abbey beer would. Abundant yeast phenols in the nose, dusty, minerally, earthy, delicate and inviting. Note of dry peach and orange peel and nutty crackers come together well. Smells downright amazing. Full, thick and rich body. Up front it’s sweet fruit (cantaloupe, under-ripe orange, kiwi), with some candy sugar noted over the middle. The back is more of a creamed orange and honey-flavored candy sugar... delicate but bright. Fantastic and satisfying.

Bottle. Pours clear straw yellow with a medium, fizzy white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is cookie malt, Belgian yeast and sugar, light fruity esters. Flavor is malt, Belgian candi sugar, light hops and a sweet finish. Medium body, warmth and carbonation.

750 ml cc Bottle from PUB’N. Produces a huge cork pop accompanied by a flash of white smoke. Nice! Pours turbid deep golden toward orange with a huge, fluffy 4-finger, vert loud, boisterous head that seems to say, "You can;t handle the Diabolique, punk!" Nose is bready rock sugary malt, spicy yeast, florals, apricotty fruit, and hopcit. Tastes rock malty, fruity, spicy yeasty, with backup floral and peppery notes. Palate is very lively, on the dry side, with spucy peppery, yeasty, and fruit throughout. The head stays through the repour, and forms marvelous shapes reminiscent of La Chouffe Houbbelein. This one, as with all the BF 750s I’ve had, is very good.

Dark cloudy gold, little off-white head. Cookieish nose is heavily spice with ginger and coriander. Desserty sweet yeastiness. Feels like alcoholic cookies in mouth, heavily yeasty and somehow working well together, though after a few sips, you’ve really mastered the question. Medium bodied, light carbonation. Sweet and rather simple, but pleasant all the same,