3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
33cl, at 7.5%Vol, as Caracole Brune, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex brew, malty and slightly roasted/fruity, balanced, cloudy, good head, nice brew
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
11/IV/2012 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ a random hotel in Folkestone - BB: III/13 (2012-344)
Little cloudy red brown beer, small light beige head, unstable, little adhesive. Aroma: caramel, sweet overripe banana, quite some mocha on warming up. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: little sweet, caramel, some mocha, ripe banana, sour berries. Aftertaste: mocha to coffee, little sour, bitter hops. I like it even better than the original one!
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Small brownish-tan head over dark red-brown beer. End of bottle solid yeast. Fruity, vinous, even acetic nose; also bready, caramelly, melanoidin-laden malts. Sourish, lactic (rather than acetic) acid and other (dark) grains in the taste. Sweet malts - or molasses - present, but dominated by the strange sourish flavour. Some spices & ester, yeast-induced. Sweet peanut/nogasyrup retronasal. Medium bodied; better carbonated than it looks. OK, decent Walloon brown, but not more than that.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at Kulminator - thanks to the american frinds for the night !!! Cloudy brown - offwhite head. Fruity, berries, roasted, malty sweetness, medium sweetness, dusty, a bit spidersweb. Oldness. A bit boring.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
This is a good beer, but I do not feel like I got a good value for what I had to pay to get it. It was sweeter than I expected, and there really wasn’t the head or lace I have come to expect of the Belgians. I am certain it would be better on draft or fresh from the brewery.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Bottle 75 cl) Light brown beer with a small, collapsing head. Classical Dubbel with a refreshing dryness to it with some underlying and very pronounced chocolate-notes. Yummy - I prefer my Dubbels not too sweet, and this is perfect in that sense. 270997
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark like brown sugar. No real head. Tasted like sweet caramel apples dumped in molasses and soaked in whiskey.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
brown amber colour. hazy and translucent. thin short lived head.
nose of malts and caramel. sweet taste with only a hinbt of banana and figs
little or no hops
this was labelled la caracole artisanal belgian brown ale at 9%abv.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
This brew proves that just because it’s Belgian it’s not necessarily good. The aroma is sweet, with sugar at every turn. The head is normal, the color and cloudiness is nice, but that’s about all I can say that’s good, as I move to the flavor. Wow, I can’t believe it’s this sickly sweet, and hides the alcohol poorly at that. It smells and tastes a bit like the peculiar smell of almost rotting Concord grapes; y’know the big black ones? The finish is chalky, a full-mouth feeling of having been assaulted in a not very nice way.
2.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Simple sweetly cloying molasses/bread malt aroma, with hints of grapefruit and (when swirled) bananas. Quickly and completely diminishing head on a murky reddish-brown liquid. A bit more than medium body, cloyingly and sticky sweet, slightly acidic, sweet finish with some remaining acidity. Flavor is molasses/syrup and alcohol, with a hint of grapefruit. This is embarrassing for Belgium...oppressively sticky and syrupy, one-dimensional (malt malt malt), and not very clean tasting. Note: my bottle was simply named ’Caracole’ as a brown ale with 9% ABV, so it may be a new or different version of the original 7.2% brown ale shown here.
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