La Trappe Dubbel

Brewed by De Koningshoeven (Bavaria - Netherlands)
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Tilburg, Netherlands

This pours really well, a dark amber with a ridiculously thick orangish so I was really looking forward to good things. It just doesn’t live up to it. It’s a bit tart and unbalanced and the palate is oddly watery considering the thickness of its head. Certainly drinkable but I won’t go out of my way for it.

Bottled purchased in Fairfield, CT under the name Konings and directed here. Pours a very dark amber color with a small swirling head. Appears to even be some very some particles in there. Smells of alcohol in a very strong way in the beginning. I think I should have stored it for a bit to age it - I feel it would have been better. I also let it warm a bit and it brought out a much better aroma and taste on the palate. Certainly getting a little fruit on first taste with banana seeming to come out. Really? the beer got better and better as I went on drinking it. Finished very nice though a bit bitter and sour.

Bottle 30CL Nice beer, red colored, nice trappist beer. Very refreshing :)

Sampled as a bottle of ’Koningshoeven’ Dubbel. This dubbel once poured was hard to put down. Flavors of caramel, fruit, oak, and strong alcohol undertone. Held up well on the trip from Holland, and I even gave it a few months cellaring for good measure.

Bottle picked up from Morrisons, 11-02-08 Pours very red in colour it actually looks like the colour of old blood. Some sweet toffee banana chewy sweet flavours, nice soft carbonation, lovely dark fruits and dried fruits, spicy on the nose, quite smooth the alcohol is there but never intrudes, I really liked this beer. Had this again 23-03-08 Many thanks to Barry for providing this beer Warm nutty aroma, dark/reddy brown with beige head, molassess, marzipan, oft sweet banana again and another solid 3.7

Bottle. Pours brown leaning towards the red and quite hazy. thick beige foam dissipates quickly. Aroma, Banana, caramel and brown sugar, and dark fruits with some hops in the background. Flavor is earth with some dark fruits, and some hops trying to peak through. Finish is dry. For a 7% this is hidden so well you don’t even feel the warmth. Not bad, but definately not my favorite trappist by a lond shot.

Bottle- Pours a murky brown liquid, with a dense beige foam. Brown sugar, dark fruit, caramel malts, and candied fruit fill the nose, and are backed up with some leafy hops. Flavour profile is figs/prunes with caramelized fruit and bready rye sweetness. The hops are here and are subdued, allowing more sweetness to come out, but it finishes drier than expected. No detection of the alcohol in this dubbel. Bottle at Chaucer’s Pub.

A hazy dark brown beer white a rich beige head. Aroma is very yeasty and fruity, notes of coffee. Taste is also very fruity, notes of bitter chocolate, roasted malt. Spicy and dry end. Lively and warm mouthfeel.