De Dolle Arabier

Bottled (7,5%, about 2,5 years old): Intensive aroma, fruity, malty, yeasty. Hazy orange color, huge frothy head. Yeasty with many particles. Flavor is intensive with alcohol, fruit, citrus and light sweet malt notes. Dry, medium to intensiv bitter finish with bitter hop notes. Pleasant balanced beer with a suprising bitterness in the end.

Bottled (8%). Golden colour, huge, slightly off white fluffy, longlasting head. Aroma is spices, malts, yeast and some grassy notes. Flavour is yeast, fruits, hops and some spices. Wellbalanced and refreshing. Hides ABV very well.

nice sexy white belgian head, nice hoppy bubbly belgian jump off foamy moutheeling

Bottle. Orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is sour, yeast, fruit, citrus, spices. Flavour is hop, fruit, alcohol, sour. Bitter finish.

Bottle, at Paters Vaeje’, Antwerp, Belgium, 06-10-06. I realised I had this before only once I’d seen the whacky, colourful label. Like De Landtsheer brewers of the Malheur range, I have been very impressed with De Dolle beers thus far, this was’nt an exception. Very orangey golden and with a slight haze, and large white head, aromas fruity, mainly citrusy and with some malts backing these up and hops also noted. Tasted very decent quite full bodied with those, fruits, malts and hops very much in evidence again quite sweet but also bitterness lingering throughout, very good 3.7 Had this again 24-06-07 at the De Dolle Brewery on tap in the company of Loz and Kris the brewer. Had to re-rate this again as i think that I underated this beer initially, it had the most intense hoppy hit that I just need to add to the original rating this cleverly disguised the strength and made this beer so moreish 4.1

Bottled. A but unclear beer with some yeast, and a white diminishing head. Citric and sour aroma with spices, yeast and green apples. Sour flavor with fruit, yeast, alcohol and bitterness. Medium body and a bitter finish. A complex beer I didn’t quite understand. (060908)

Bottle. Hazy, pale orange / golden color with big white head. Lots of fruity aromas. Lemon, banana, green apples and dried apricot. Taste is very complex and well balanced. Sweet malts and honey. Sweet and sour fruits. Fresh and flowery hops. Smooth mouthfeel.

In short: Crazy blonde Belgian Ale. Cannot summarize…
How: Many bottles of various age and on tap at Brewery (poured by brewer!!!)
The look: Cloudy dark blonde body with a long lasting large white head. Most bottles give so much head that the pour is usually problematic
In long: Very yeasty, very sweeet and very hoppy beer. With the Arabier you crank everything to 11. Honeyed caramel, bready, biscuit malts, light but complex fruity notes. Top-notch mouthfeel. Something wild in there, this is not a funky beer by any means but there’s something lively in the beer, the feeling I get from my favourite Saisons. By Belgian standards the hops are over-the-top. A ton of them and they also come with a rather spicy (pepper mainly) flavour. Very sharp and bitter finish. These days the only thing as bitter as a Belgian Arabier is a Lebanon Arab.