L’Aurore de la Salm

Brewed by Brasserie de l’Abbaye du Val-Dieu
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Aubel, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

Dark brown coloured beer with a small white head. Not much aroma, a bit malty. Body is medium, taste a bit sweet malty.(Bottle 33 cl)

courtesy of Jespr - cloudy dark brown colour and with a solid persistent beige foam; perfumy aroma with notes of biscuit and pear; velvety palate and with a solid malt backbone, pretty sweet and slightly chewy mouthfeel, residual sugars with more notes of pear in a long finish

Bottle: Big airy off white head on top of a darker amber to darker orange colored beer. Smell malts, nuts and bitter.  Taste malts darker fruits, earth, sweets, spices and hops and hints of honey and alcohol. Sweetbitter spicy grassy aftertaste.  Soft tingling mouthfeel, mid carbo and body.

Bottle from Dranken Geers, Oostakker, Nr Gent, Belgie, 01.10.10 consumed 20.10.10 Pours amber with white head and busy carbonation. Soft in the mouth but a nice flush of sweet dark sugars and warm alcohol, pleasant spiciness with a little nutmeg noted. Nice beer. A7 A3 T7 P4 Ov14 3.5

Bottle. Pale for a brune; clear copper with a cream layer. Spiced plummy aroma a bit like a dunkelweizen; cloves, apple sauce, banana hints, Benelin. Flavour is a bit disappointing, considering- plumminess weakly dusted with spice, underlying orange and pepper hints. Alcohol well-hidden. A grower, better lukewarm and with the bits in.

Pours a hazy medium amber. Aroma is lightly malty, hoppy, yeasty. Flavor is moderately sweet, alcoholic, roasty dark. Not nearly as good as some of the other Abbey Dubbels I’ve had recently.

Bottled. An amber beer with a thick off-white head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and citrus. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and caramel. Thanks KimJohansen for sharing.

Bottle @ pre-GBBF shindig, August 2009. Mid brown. Some raisin fruit. Maybe a hint of licorice. Some residual sweetness. Not too much else of note. Middle of the road.