Eem Donker

Bierbrouwerij de Eem
Brewed at Scheldebrouwerij
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Amersfoort, Netherlands

Serve in Trappist glass

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(Bottled) Very hazy dark brown with a medium, creamy head. Aroma of lightly roasted, caramely malt, dried fruit and yeast. Flavor is dried-fruity, lightly sweet, caramely-roasty, also somewhat bitter. Medium to full body, fizzy but still overall quite soft CO2. A quite nice, dryish dubbel with more than the usual share of roastiness and hops. 4446

Bottle, pours dark red-brown, earth and tart plums and cherries on the nose, then blackberry, plum, biscuit and pine hops on the palate. Light but sharp hop bitter and a little dark cocoa finish.

Hazy ruby brown colour with a big off-white head. Beer gushed slightly when opened. Smells yeast, alcohol, sharp. Tastes caramel, liquorice, chocolate. Quite a surprise, a bit stout like. Also some iron and rust taste, which is a shame. Slightly watery though, a lot of carbo.

Dark brown, with a glow, small head. Mellow aroma, some caramel, raisin, bit of rye bread, sour apples. Nice though. Taste is more boring, light bitterness, easily drinkable. Fairly long aftertaste. Nothing wrong with the texture at all really. Accessible and well brewed, but passable for the advanced drinker. (33cl bottle)

33 cL bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a small tan head. Aroma is yeasty, phenolic, citrusy and orange fruity hops note. Bitter, citric, slight earthy, vague cheesy and breadish flavoured. Bitter and light citrusy hops fruity finish with an underlying malt base.

Not a very fair total score in the end, just don’t care much for the aroma and appearance. I like the spices in this beer, with some sourness and fizzy alcohol. Bottle from Van Erp in Groningen

Draft at Kanslos. Dark brown pour with medium off white head. Aroma is chocolate and spice. Dark fruits and caramel in the flavor.

Nice amber colored beer with an average sized off-white head. Decent smell and taste but too much carbonation. Very fizzy and lively, overwhelming the taste.

Bottle. Aroma is slight swamy caramel, some spice. Flavour is caramel and deep roasted malt. Some coffee. Nice one.

Bottle 33 cl. from hopduvel, Gent. Bit hazy dark amber with a off-white head. Aroma roasted malts, sweet, dark fruits. Medium body. Taste sweet start, roasted malts, chocolate touch. Dry hoppy finish.