De Dolle Dulle Teve 10º (Mad Bitch)

Brewed by De Dolle Brouwers
Style: Abbey Tripel
Diksmuide, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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750 mL bottle, corked & capped...I am pretty sure that I purchased this bottle in 2003...funny thing, it actually has the 33 cL bottle label on it, but it is indeed a 750. After popping the cap, the cork immediately began to rise out of the bottle on its own, within 2 minutes of watching it, I was able to pull the lightly molded cork out with my fingers and I was rewarded by a loud pop. That is the first time I have been able to pull out a cork with my fingers and the beer wasn’t completely flat. Pours a perfectly clear gold with an almost impossibly thick, creamy starched white head, that grows unbelievably quickly. Dense lacing left all around the inside of the glass. Biscuity, pale malt aroma, with a perfect amount of sweetness...with touches of honey, ripe apricots, warm dough and lemony hay. Beautifully developed palate...what I can imagine as a once highly over-carbonated palate has mellowed into a velvety tingle across the tongue, delivering touches of bitterness, lightly warmed malts, and sweetness in a perfect balance. I have been burned on some long-time aged beers recently, but this one, which has been staring me in the face for many years now, was worth the wait...the Mad Bitch has certainly become the Magnificent Beauty...it only took 7 years.

Nice aroma of honey and alcohol. The alcohol burn is a tad sharp, enjoyable malty flavour.

A - pours nice golden with some floaties. Very very high fluffy head. Strong clinging. S - strong Belgian yeasts and astringent. Notes orange peel, tart fruit, funk. M - strong sticky up front, fades to a flatter drier end. Malty sweet throughout, with a lingering astringent sting in the end. T - soapy Belgian yeasts up front. Flatter sweeter middle, apples, over ripe bananas, yeasts, soap on the palate. Lingering light astringent, sweet bread and sweet vegetal malts. O - interesting fruity bready Belgian. 7

Bottle from Etre Gourmet webshop. Pours almost clear golden with a huge frothy white head. Aroma of spicy hops, sweet fruity and yeast. Taste is first of all a very lively spicy mouthfeel, high carbonated, moderate alcohol burn towards the end.

Pours a hazy gold with a thick white head. Smells of basement aromas, leather, caramel. Taste is sour, very yeasty, with a follow up of some sweet maltiness and a note of hops.

Draught at Mikkeller Bar. Light amber with a fluffy white head. Spicy banana-heavy aroma, but something feels wrong. The aroma is muted and takes a lot of work to experience. Has the fuller body you’d expect from a 10% beer but I’m finding it hard not to be disappointed. It’s not a bad beer by any stretch, but it falls somewhat flat here.

33cl Bottle, bottled Jan 2011. Drunk May 2012. Amberblond, white head, not as lasting as usual. Sweet citrus flavor, candy sugar, a bit acidic as well. Taste is quite sweet/sugary, light bitter finish. Easy to drink a lot, but probably a mad bitch the day after!

tulip. gold color clean body and massive head and lots of lacing. aromas are citrus, hay, yeast. taste up front is a bit sweet, not very bitter, yeasty, and lots of notes of hay and coriander. The texture in this beer is very interesting, at first I took a sip of the head and very fluffy texture and some of that feeling remained as I washed my mouth while drinking the beer. brilliant!

Sharp, sweet aroma. You can small the sugar. Pours a big head with big fluffy bubbles. Leaves traces on the sides of the glass as the head dissipates. Golden, with lots of particulate matter floating around. Lots of carbonation so it hits the tongue a bit like a sour. Dry finish. Ziggy start with a lemon’ish sour dry finish. Maltyness really sticks around in the mouth with is interesting with such a dry finish.

Pours a hazy gold with a thick white head. Smells of basement aromas, leather, caramel. Taste is sour, very yeasty, with a follow up of some sweet maltiness and a note of hops.

Poured on draft into a whiskey tasting glass. Appearance is densely hazy yellow with a thick frothy head of white foam. Aroma is slightly tart, but a light sweetness is the more present aroma. In the taste I get an interesting salty sweet note that’s oddly nice. Difficult to explain. Really good beer.