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Kasteelbier Donker

Kasteelbier Donker - Belgian Strong Ale

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 Percentile 
92
overall
Brewed by Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck
Style: Belgian Strong Ale

Ingelmunster, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
6403.61/5.03.6/5.011%80.6Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
A strong Belgian brown ale.
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 jbuzz (658), South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/104/59/20
Apr 21, 2008  
A tasting at Three Cellars Milwaukee. I found this to be too sweet. With nice carbonation, raisin flavor, caramel, maple syrup. Still not bad.


 note666 (282), Eindhoven, Netherlands
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Apr 18, 2008    Updated: May 30, 2009
330 ml bottle. 11% !! nice dark brown coloured beer. very nice, not to sweet full bodied taste.


 RomanW70 (297), Providence, Rhode Island, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/514/20
Apr 17, 2008  
On tap at Pitcher’s Pub in Cumberland, RI. Pours dark brown. Nice aroma of dark fruits, brown sugar, and a hint of alcohol. Flavor of dark fruits and brown suagr with a warming alcohol finish. Has a very vneous quality, Quite tasty, but very sweet, which is a little distracting. Underneath the sweetness is a beer with a loy of complexity. I enjoyed the beer, but it’s defintely not an everyday beer.


 beerinmarch (2781), Alabama, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Apr 15, 2008  
Pours dark ruby/mohogany with a small off white head. Fairly heavy and sweet on the palate, a bit more carbonation would lend some more esters and make it a bit less syrupy. Big raisin flavor, caramel, fake maple syrup, and coffee cake. Not a bad beer, but overall a bit sweet and lightly cloying in the finish.


 kiefdog (1534), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Apr 13, 2008  
750ml bottle from Total Wine Tampa. Pours a dark, chocolatey brown with a thin tan head that dissipates quickly. Smells sweet and malty; hints of toffee and caramel. Flavor: Sweet and full-bodied, has a pleasing sweet, slightly sour finish. Tastes of malt, caramel, molasses. Hints of chocolate, maple, and root beer on subsequent tastes.


 gowdy (155), Ferney-Voltaire, France
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Apr 11, 2008  
Bottle at home. caramel, roasty, resin, brown, clear, frothy, medium bitterness, light sweetness, medium body, sticky, average carbonation,


 heavy (805), Split, Croatia
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/514/20
Apr 8, 2008  
05/04 0.33 l at Hopdevil, Zagreb. Poured dark brown body with small head that didn’t stay out half a minute. Sweet malty aroma, roasted sugar, some black cherries and berries, nice enough. Flavor also good, but too simple and ordinary, caramelized sugar hides all that alcohol in very rustical way. Nothing more. Full bodied of course. Finish is nice long and pleasant. A good beer but could be better for that what it is.


 BeerFanDan17 (610), Land O Lakes, Florida, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/59/104/516/20
Apr 7, 2008  
Very rich dark Belgian strong ale. Bite is extraordinary. Flavors are malty with caramel, apricot, and brown sugar apparent. Acquired in bottle at my local GrillSmith restaurant.



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