Burton Bridge Tickle Brain Ale

Brewed by Burton Bridge
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Burton-on-Trent, England

Bottle from beer-ritz. Cloudy ruby, ripe fruit, blackcurrant, alcohol warming. A bit sweet and sour.

Bottle, Ale Cellar, Darlington. Poured a reddy brown with a lively foaming head. Aroma was roasted malt and some dark fruit. Taste wise, this had similar elements, but was somewhat lacking in real body and the yeasty edge to this loses it marks. Pleasant enough boozy hit, but falls short of anything special.

Bottle (in NZ), pours a hazy brown with a think off-white foam head. Woody on the nose, with a pleasant fruitiness along with biscuity malt. A smooth mouthfeel at first, then quickly becomes spicy and tangy. Some woody notes and toffee malt. Finishes with a peppery dryness. Very nice.

(Bottle, Monk’s Café, Stockholm) Dark brown colour with ruby hints. Frothy, beige head. Fruity, malty nose with notes of red berries, dried fruit, caramel and hints of chocolate. Fruity, malty, spicy taste with dark fruit, nuts, prunes, raisins and generous amounts of spicy hops in the finish. Medium to full body, fairly bitter and rather sweet. Brewed in Burton, Staffordshire? Seriously, you mean Belgium? No? Oh dear, I’m impressed, this is actually a little masterpiece in the abbey dubbel style. Excellent beer!

500 ml bottle, bougth in Wales by neighbour Kjetil - tanks! Brown color, moderate off-white head. Aroma is sweet. Flavor is sweet, with caramel malt, some hops, fruit and alcohol. A strange sweetness in this...

Bottle Conditioned, 500ml, aged 6yrs. Chestnut colour with white head. This has aged well, smooth, portish, winey with a heavy malted body with a rich fruitiness and a background alcohol but without the burn. Good sweet wine finish, rosey and full. Very good beer, enjoyable.

A Mes rate: 50cl bottle from The Bottle Stop
Interesting stuff. A good representation of an Abbey ale with an English twist. Very Belgian aroma of sweet yeast and malt with lashings of creamy alcohol and a hoppy accent. Lovely appearance. Deep dark amber with a pillowy beige head. Aroma is matched in the flavour but the alcohol is a little too over powering and holds back the pleasant stuff underneath. The finish, being full of cardboard and alcohol, completes the let down. Close, but no biscuit.

500ml bottle from Notts BF 07. Way too strong and unsubtle. Clear chestnut colour with really thick beige head. Strong fruity aroma. Syrupy malt, hot alcohol. Plums are the fruits in the mouth. Good condition though.