De Dolle Arabier

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

Bottle: Copper color with a big white head. Aroma, lemony, some mustiness, and floral notes. Flavor, light fruits, belgian yeast, a bit sweet, and a nice hop character. Pretty decent stuff.

Pours cloudy golden caramel with a gigantic frothy off white head--1/3 of my beer is still in the bottle--with a bunch of chunky sediment. Aroma of Belgian hops, dust, apples, and pears. Taste is much the same with a little bit of sweet artificial oranges, though this isn’t near as detracting as what I’ve had with some beers. Not terribly hoppy, though it does have a dry slightly bitter finish. Still moderate to high carbonation, medium bodied. Nice lacing, almost 1/4" @ some points. Can’t really pick up on any ETOH, though it is just 7%.

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)