De Dolle Arabier

Brewed by De Dolle Brouwers
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Diksmuide, Belgium

Massive off white head with aroma of plums and oranges. Slightly medium golden/amber color with small suspended particles. Astrigent in nature with a sweet and sour/bitter finish. The flavor did have some cinnamon and carmel tones. Great beer.

11.2oz bottle. Aroma: Cookies, yeast, honey, cloves and bubblegum. Lots of fruit: banana, grape, lemon. Some perfumey floral notes as it warms. Appearance: Amber in color and fairly clear. Bright white head was huge and foamy/rocky with great retention. Great lacing. Flavor: Cookie, Honey and yeast. Banana, spice, and orange. Some floral and spice hop notes into the finish. A surprising level of bitterness scrubs the palate and lingers. Palate: Medium bodied. Medium-high carbonation. Moderate alcohol warmth in back of mouth. Overall: Certainly not the best beer I’ve had from De Dolle, but solid. Nice flavor and the hop bitterness was really a nice surprise.

12oz bottle. Pours a dark yellow with a huge white head. Bit of a gusher. Nose of yeast and spice and a nice funkiness. Some nice sourness in the flavor along with nice honey and yeast notes. A bit of a fruit finish with a hoppy kick. Dry and a lingering tartness, complex and high drinkable with no real alcohol at all in the flavor. Awesome beer.

Bottle. Pours golden with a voluminous white head, craggy and leaves beautiful lacing on the glass. Huge nose of spice, yeast, bubble gum hints, cloves, candi sugar and floral hops. Spicy to taste, some fruit, a touch of sweetness and honey, then wham! a huge bitterness not betrayed in the nose hits your tongue. Gorgeously light, rolls around in your mouth with a lush carbonation and finishes nicely, dry. I love this brewery.

Great Aroma of fruit and malt with some hops. Big fluffy head over the cloudy light yellow pour. Taste is a bit over hopped as the fruit is hard to find. Not a bad ale, just a bit dry and dull for my tastes. Still a pretty good one. Long dry hoppy finish, which grows on you. Enjoyable, but one I’ll go to great lengths to find. Worth trying though.

Appearance: Cloudy yellow/bronze. Loads of head. Aroma: Very fruity. Gone-off fruit? Taste: Very fruity, long aftertaste. Malty. Info: 330ml bottle, 9/2-2006, 69/300

hazy golden with strong white head. perfectly balanced flavor with initial pale malt flavor mixed with candy sugar that is perfectly balanced by the spiciness that De Dolle has perfected blending with a tremendous hop bitterness and some flavor. this beer may not be absurdly flavorful, but that is what makes the unbelievable balance and complexity that much more remarkable. tremendous brewery

Golden orange in colour, large and lingering white coloured head, excellent retention and lacing. The aroma is of lemons, apples, musty, yeasty, some spice. The flavour is floral, soapy, yeasty, some alcohol, citrus and spice. Medium bitter mouthfeel, medium body, medium/high carbonation. Finishes slightly sweet, lingering with some spice and alcohol warmth.

This is still pretty good but I’m afraid to say that this is starting to fade.

330ml bottle from the Beers Of The World in Rochester, New York.
Opened on December 30, 2007.
Purchased in November 2004.