Grottenbier Bruin

Brewed by St. Bernard Brouwerij
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Watou, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

750 bottle. Pierre Celis Signature Selection. Pours dark brown with a big white fluffy head. Nose is malty, slight sweet/candi sugar, spices. Taste is sharp, tangy, a bit sweet, and slightly sticky. Full palate. One of the better dubbels I’ve had.

33cl bottle, bought in Belgium. Dark of course, crispy. Somewhat vinegary smell. Fruity, some chocolate, hoppy, cardamom. Vinegary taste but works well for the generally dry, roasted, warm bitter taste. Hints of fruitiness.

Dark brown with a light brown head. Aroma mostly of cheese, then malt and yeast. Malty taste with dark fruit and slightly tart. Yummy. Very highly carbonated. Quite a surprise - it’s a really good beer

Bottle. Looks great with a hazy, dark orangeish amber body and a creamy beige head that lasts a while. Nose is fruity and spicy with notes of raisins, grapes, plums, yeast, cinnamon and other spices. Flavour is quite similar but with a stronger malty caramel profile and more spice. Dry on the palate with very high carbonation and a lingering spicy finish. Really good dubbel, complex and compelling.

Pours dark brown with an off-white head. Aroma of plums Taste is smooth sweet fruits, with bits of bread. I like this one.

( 750ml bottle) Pours a huge 2 finger tan colored head that crowns the beer nicely. The beer is a pretty plain brown color, but the beer has nice lacing. Smells of dried figs, but not a lot else. Not very complex, but enjoyable. There was another smell here too that I could not identify. Taste of dark fruits and Belgian yeast, one dimensional and better as it warms. Palette is creamy, well carbonated, and excellent as all St. Bernardus beers seem to be.

This is one of my favorite belgian beer. The beer is higlly carbonated but the white foam quickly goes down to a thinn lace. The color is dark orange and unfortunantly quite clovdy as there is live yeast in each bottle. The aroma is very belgian with spices and dried fruit and phenols. In the taste you find the fenols and fruits that gives quite a marvelous blend, smoth and full of taste. The body is medium to full, a real good sipping beer.

Cloudy red brown in color... Yeasty malty aroma... Flavor is sweet and citrusy initially over a malty base, yeasty finish characteristic of a Belgian, very crisp and refreshing for a brown, kind of a fusion between a brown ale and a trippel... Pretty good.