De Graal Dubbel

Brewed by De Graal
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Brakel, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

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Brown colour, big white head. Sweet chocolate and raisin taste, medium sweetness, lightly bitter.

bottle, september 08. Clear, rubby copper color witha medium, creamy cremé head. Aroma is fruity with a caramel and banana touch. Some spice, quite restrained. Flavor is ripe fruit, bananas and a slight coffee touch. Slightly phenollic with a short earthy aftertaste. Mouthfeel is medium, some chewy malt and easy drinking but with a sudden watery finish. Ok, easy drinking dubbel that could do with a bit more personality.

"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.

bottle, dark reddish/brown colour with foamy white head. Smell: some yeastyness, taste: not too sweet, caramel, some fruityness. Nice one!

33cl bottle. Pours a medium brown, with an offwhite head. Smells sweet, of candi sugar, and dried fruits, and a hint of spice. Tastes of a heavy sweetness, and mild tartness. Texture is oily. Carbonation is lively. Finishes mildly cloying, with a small dry bitterness.

Appearance: mahogany color (beautiful). Medium head, lasting and with beige color. Aroma: to caramel malts and citric-herbal touches from hops. Yeast smells with fresh note, this inject vanilla’s reminiscences. Also, chocolate aroma reminiscences. Flavor: sweet start, not sickly, from toast and caramel malts. Intensive and nice chocolate’s reminiscences. Others flavor like milk, mocha and cream. The liquorness and cacao taste remember me a truffle; while that the yeast inject sponge-cake’s reminiscences. Light berries note. Chocolate aftertaste. Palate: medium to full body with silky and oily texture. Light to medium carbonation. An incredible, intensive and nice chocolate taste. Balanced and with own-character. Great beer.

brown, clear, tan foam, roasty, caramel, toast, medium body, oily feel, average carbonation, medium sweetness, medium body, average carbonation,

Aroma of roasted caramel maltiness mixed with some spice. Hazy, dark brown coloured with a lasting, thick brown head. Taste is sweet and bitter. Caramel malty, roasted. Some fruits (prunes/raisins) and definately spices in it. Bit like a combination between a dubbel and a stout. Nice.

330 ml bottle. Pours a brownish bronze color with a small white head. It has a spicy malty aroma with maybe a bit of a prune smell. This is a very complex tasting beer. It has a caramel taste with maybe a bit of raisin , cereal and a touch of toast. and a little bit of vegetables. This beer was pretty good but didn’t strike me as a spectacular beer.

33cl bottle. Dark amber cloudy body with a nice puffy beige head. Bready nose with subttle tones of clove and caramel. A slight acid approach in mouth with some sweet roasted malts, and hops bitterness at the end that leaves a coffee-like aftertaste. Medium-high carbonation with a light body cause some effervescences that disturb the complexity of the flavors which is a pity. Could have been a good dubbel but is an underachiever because of that lack of body and a too high carbonation, the brewer should tone this down to make a more serious beer with less pops.