Grimbergen Cuvée Ambrée / Double (Dubbel)

Alken-Maes (Heineken)
Brewed at Kronenbourg (Carlsberg)
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Jumet, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Large tan head. Tantalizing nose fruity malt fore and mid. Medium alcohol finish. Buttery

reddness holding hands with thin lace while walking along a cherry airwalk...
Woa malty..not to the point of chocolateness but maybe a tad toffee with intertwined cherry personalities..
smooth, sugar daddy candies..burps..decent and sweet

This one is a quality brew, but not excellent, it misses a bit the head, and the taste is not strong enough, but after all, I’ve had better, I’ve had worse. It misses the special character a trappist like the Westmalle dubbel has.

UPDATED: SEP 5, 2004 clear, darkbrown/red colour. diminishing head. Smells very bad, bit like meat over it's date, bit sour, malt is the best i can smell. Luckily taste is better; sweet, caramel. Perhaps some hints offruit. Soft-bitter, watery 'empty' palate; cheap. Rerate: Palate is of much metal.

Velvety, apple-butter colored body, with a diminishing, bulbous head. Curious yeasty nose...I think it smells like Vegemite, although I haven’t had that stuff for years. Musty like an underground cellar, with hints of dates, vanilla, and red wine barrels. A tad of a disappointment, considering the promising aroma. Not particularly fruity or malty, but prominently bitter in the apple vinegar sort of way. I really like the label though.

Amber color, quickly dissapating head, caramel scents. Initial flavor is sweet and flavorful and the finish is buttery smooth. How’s that for some adjectives? Maybe a little too sweet, but a pretty good brew.

Sweet smells of caramel, maple syrup, and vanilla, all really sugary, open this up. Dark tan, just at the edge of brown, and almost solid red, this is a strange beer. This beer is just too sweet for my taste. I think I just found an cavity in my tooth. The overpowering sweetness is obviously there to counteract the alcohol, but it seems more like a full on head butt. No balance, this is just candy, alcohol, and a sour finish.

Clean brown colour, with ruby shades, creamy head and beautiful lace. Some malt aroma, too light. A lot of caramel, brown sugar, some malt, a bit of peanuts and hazelnuts; cookies; rather dry and astringent. Strong, bitter and persistent palate. Only at the end some sweetness arises.

Fruit cake and spicy nose with a nice red-brown color and a light tan head. Sugary and caramelly in the taste. Kinda thin-ish. OK, but not that special.

Chestnut brown colour with moderate head and condition. Burnt sugar nose, malt and saccarine in the mouth and a strangely unsettling aftertaste.