Ename Dubbel

Brewed by Brouwerij Roman
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Oudenaarde, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

330ml bottle. Shared Tranquility’s - thanks! Dark red, think light head. Aroma is very perfumed, a bit shampooey, and also sweet malt. Taste similar, very sweet, extremely perfumey - as Marcus says, it’s like perfumed make-up or lipstick. Quite malty, and a bit fizzy. But I just can’t get over the over-dominant perfume taste. Is it made with 200 whores’ handkerchiefs?

Bottle. Probably we got a strange bottle, our ratings have nothing to do with those on this page. The beer is brown, with a thick, long-lasting, beige head. Nutty raisiny and most of all perfumy aroma. The taste is that of lipstick (!) and shampoo. Flowery, yes, but in the same way as soap in your mouth is. Blah.

A Mes rate: 33cl bottle from the Belgian Belly.
Very dark amber brown with a huge head that makes it great fun to pour. Lovely aroma with a really pleasant caramel sweetness, roasted malt, slight liquorice and some faint alcohol. Malty flavour with some slight chocolate but with some strong metallic notes. Bit of a let down after the aroma. Slightly over carbed so a little too prickly in the mouth.

Dark brown with a begie head. Burnt sugar and a yeast feel in the aroma and flavor. Also some plums and dark fruits. A clear malty feel in the flavor.

Bottled. Deep amber/brown colour with mediumsized white head. Aroma is caramel, some malts and slight metallicness. Flavour is dark fruits, caramel, yeast and some slight metallic notes.

Chestnut brown with white fluffy & bubbly head. Buiscuit, caramel, toffee, roasted malt - sweet aroma. Taste is dark fruits & caramel with yeasty & sugary notes. Medium bodied - soft palate. Nice lacings. Overall enjoyable dubbel!

UPDATED: SEP 13, 2007 Bottled 0,33L. Much creamy head, bulky and supporter of discreet persistence. Beautiful dark brown color, much fraught and impenetrable. Decidedly alcoholic aroma with pleasant flowery notes, roast malt and stum. Sweet and spiced taste, solid and fraught body with aged notes. Much harmonious and wrapping with wine cellar and aged grapes notes on the end.
Thanks to Emma for this one.

(Bottle, BB 18/09/08) Pours a burgundy body with a medium beige head. Aroma of mustiness, dark fruit, and caramel. Flavor, of malt, dark fruit, and molasses.