De Graal Dubbel

Brewed by De Graal
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Brakel, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

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Hazy brown color with a small head. The taste is sweet light malty with light nutty and spicy notes. Finishes slightly sour.

Nice dubbel with a dark amber colour and a beige head. Malty and sweet aroma with hints of yeast. Flavor is also malty and sweet with hints of chocolate.

Sweet honey nose, cloudy brown color, low foamy head. Light chocolatey malt - sweet and toffee-like. Meidum body. Could benefit from some bitter or sour or something to counterbalance the malt.

Nahhh - Mdium brown coor, small frothy head, yeasty and sweet nose. Light sweet bready taste - but not much going on.

Bottled - bought at Evening Star Brighton. A muddy brown beer with a high amount of sediment. The aroma is sweet but with some smoky notes. The taste is typically Dubbel but the extra sediment gives it a bit of a ’meaty’ taste. Still good though.

Brown with beautiful red shine; good carbonation to dense, creamy yellowish head, lacey. Very obvious chocolate nose, cacao. Iron in the head! Again very much (sweet) chocolate, and, blood-like ironoxyde in the taste. The liquor - or a head stabiliser? Sweet main taste, but counterbalanced by the carbonation and the iron. Retronasal a bit of peanut flavour. A bit fizzy. Light bodied for a dubbel. No discernible aftertaste, even not warming up. Apart from the mouthfeel rather nice chocolatey dubbel. It's the ironnotes I have some doubts about...

Red brown color with bits of yeast floating. Chocolate and mocha aroma and flavor, somewhat dusty. Rather thin. Sweet and sugary, some mango fruit. Maybe a bit infected, but the flavor is not too bad.

Bottled: Light amber coloured. Dusty. Medium lasting light brownish head. Malts, light spices and yeast in the nose. Sweet, malty somewhat citrusy flavour. Distinct alcahol notes. Has a rather bland and uninteresting aftertaste.

A deep red beer with a beutiful head but mine had clumps of yeast floating around in it. The flavor is rather sweet yeasty with notes of fruit, apples, and burnt caramel. The middle is somewhat thin - especially for a 6.5% ABV. But it ends on a dryness combined with a good bitterness.

Muddy brown with a head that disappears too soon. Aromas are sweet with hints of caramel. This is not the most complex of dubbels. Too sweet for me and it lacks the chocolate and coffee flavours that I like. A bit weak.