3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours murky reddish brown with a tan head with good retention. Aroma of honey and malts. Flavor is sweet, a bit bitter and slightly watery but well balanced. Low carbonation. Decent bittersweet finish.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours a hazy brownish copper colour with a bubbly light tan head that doesn’t last long. Nose is sweet with notes of toffee, cola, raisins, cherries and brown sugar. Flavour is also sweet but has a strong malt presence as well and has hints of toffee, oak, chocolate and dark fruit. Medium to full bodied with an almost sticky mouthfeel and a fair amount of carbonation, this is a particularly good dubbel, maybe too sweet for every taste, but a near classic nonetheless.
2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 8/20
Small bottle. Caramel, rapidly vanishing brown head. Nose of chocolate and pruney malts; some alcohol and grasses. As you might expect, very carbonated mouthfeel. It’s filtered, so I can’t imagine that would settle over time. Tastes like it smells. Fruit and alcohol finish. Would lose to an Italian soft drink mixed with vodka.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours an opaque chocolate brown with a small tan head. Aroma is of chocolatey malts, a little bit of maple, and a little grass as well. Flavor is quite chocolatey, and that makes up most of the flavor profile, alongside a little cream. Thick viscosity, good carbonation. Nice one. Overall, excellent.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
0.33L, medium stable light brown head, hazy light brown to deep red colour, aroma of brown sugar and caramel, flavours of prunes, raisins and brown sugar with hints of dark chocolate and bread, not to sweet with a very light bitterness. light but pleasant dour aftertaste. quite good but certainly not spectacular.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Nose is plums and brown sugar with just traces of belgian yeast. Flavor is heavy on the plums up front, a pleasant bready fig/yeast combination as it warms a bit. There is a noticeable alcohol burn that detracts from the overall taste from cold to warm. Not my favorite trappist (not close) but decent.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Quite good, not the best, too sweet, nice looks, alc character well performed, has this belgian orange peal characte as well
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: SEP 23, 2011 33cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex brew, balanced, hazy, good head, good Trappist
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