De Graal Dubbel

Cloudy brown pour with a 3/4 inch off-white head. Aroma of sweet malt and dark fruits with an unexpectedly heavy dose of hops. Flavor is much the same. Rich and pleasantly warm. Very nice.

Bottle, bought @ Willems, Grobbendonk.
[thanks, Skou, for bringing this back for me]
Pours muddy brown with a very impressive, creamy, yellow-beige head. Aroma is quite sweet, some rye-bread, honey, Belgian sugar and raisins. High carbonation, frothy mouthfeel. Flavour is sweet and malty, but with a fine, balancing dryness. A touch of dark chocolate and plums balance it well. Still not a particularly impressive dubbel.

Hazy brown with a fizzy tan head. Sweet grain and alcohol aroma. Bread honey and toffee taste with an earthy finish.

"Hoppy Belgian dubbel." Best before date June 2009. Pours a vivid rust red, topped by tawny marshmallow crème. Spicy-fruity aroma features plum and chocolate, grape flavored gum, mace, and wood. There is a sharp chemically scent I was going to call "artificial cilantro", but a more accurate name is "spray-on oven cleaner." Rather timid flavor... candied fruits, marzipan, and "burnt aloe" spicyness. Lots of quote marks in this rating. Thinnish, wheaty mouthfeel. Overall very restrained, and VERY weird.

Don’t remember how it pours. Aroma of grapes, caramel, raisin and light toast. Tastes maltier with toast, caramel, grapes, and a kinda tart yeast presence. Finishes toasty but still it’s fruitier than I would like. Medium bodied.

(750ml bottle, BB 06/2009) Pours a hazy amber body with a small beige head. Aroma of yeast, raisins, baked apple, caramel, and mustiness. Flavor of yeast, raisins, roasted malt, light banana, and caramel.

In the bottle at the 2009 Crescent Moon Extreme Beerfest. Pours a dense dark amber color with a thick off white head. Rich wine-like and fruity aromas. Thick sugary raisins and plums to the flavor with a mild chocolate maltiness. Chewy.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. The smell is raisans, fruits, malts, yeast, and spices. The look is amber in color not too much head. The taste is yeast, fruits, spices, raisans, and plums, and sugary.