Grottenbier Bruin

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

Doesn’t smeel that good, and I think the taste starts out good but then get’s a little cheap candy flavor. Sweet with a hint of red ale.

750ml bottle "Pierre Celis Signature Selection" looks exactly same as image but red label. Bought at Food Emporium summer of ’08. Pour is hued chestnut color. Nose is doughy with hints of malt. Taste of plum, molasses, and stained wood. Acidic alcoholic bitterness in the finish. A good dubbel

Murky brown to red, tiny offwhite head. Yeasty and mouldy aroma, like a cellar. It still has some fruity freshness in aroma. And maybe oat? Flavor has general grainyness and sweetness. Sort of crispy feel. Interesting.

750ml bottle from BevMo. Pours reddish with a tan head. Smells perfumy with a nice wild floral tinge. Tastes of mild sugar, some tangy hops and cherries as well as a slight peppery finish.

(Bottle from Fat Cat, Norwich) Pours dark brown/red with some froth. Smells a bit soapy with some spices and perhaps cinnamon, but nothing really stands out. Coffeish flavour, with a dry bitter aftertaste. A little dark fruit but again, nothing stands out. Nice though. As it warms some good cinnammon definately enters the picture, with some spices and apple - this is really quite good at this stage. Still very little sweetness though. I originally had it at celler temperature and this did not do the beer justice, once it warms this is a tasty little beast.

Bottle at Carlsens Kvarter. Brown body, with an off-white head. I could not small anything at all, so I have to re-rate it. Flavor is plums, malt yeast and spices.

75cl bottle 6.5% the label is red, not blue. says grottenbier, pierre celis signature selection. grottenbier bruin/brune. celebrating my forex gains of eur2000+ last two days, because the us central bank inflated the usd.. one of those beers where you need equal parts of swearing persuation and heavy tools to get the cork out. once cork was dismantled beer was happy and foamed over a bit, but nothing serious. dark orangy brown, large thick offwhite head, that looks a little like soap. very yeasty aroma with faint notes of spices. flavor is caramel, spices, sweetness, dryness, cardemom? perhaps. it’s an okay bruin, balanced and easy to drink, but doesn’t really stand out except for being not bad. will appeal to the general public i’m sure.

750ml corked bottle poured into it’s corresponding glass. Official. Pours a thick choco-brown color with a thin lasting head. The aroma is malty and yeasty, with a nice hoppy bitterness. The taste is smooth and creamy, lots of deep malt flavors with a balanced yeast and hop balance. Very well done Belgian Dubbel, this is top notch. Creamy and easy on the palate, some delicate fruity esters in there too.