De Dolle Arabier

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.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy hazy orange amber body with an off white head. Flavor and aroma is sweet malt, some dry woody citrus. Heavily carbonated and some nice spiciness. decent.

Smells great. Loads of fruit (apricot and more) and sweet malty caramell. Tastes good too, though not quite as nice. Sweet, malty, yeasty, fruity and a huge amount of CO2 (as with other brews from the brewery). Nice.