Leffe Brune

Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Leuven, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

Pours copper with a beige head. Aroma is bread, caramel, phenolic notes, light spice. Flavour is caramel, bread, light alcohol and dried fruit.

Smells sweet but also like rubbing alcohol. Cloudy light brown. Tastes sweet at first, then like malt liquor. A truly awful beer.

on tap. murky dark brown, red tint with a small beige head (improperly poured), good retention and excellent lacing. aroma is torrefied malts, dark fruits. taste is semi-sweet dark roasted malts, fruitiness, spices - peppery, cloves, some woodyness. earthiness, yeast. light to medium hopping - nice grassy notes. medium body, soft carbonation, silky, oily. not overly complex but nice to have this one on tap next to the macros (even though it’s a macro ;)

Clear dark brown with an off-white head. Very weak fruity aroma, touch of metal and bland toffee. Flavour continues along the same basic lines, little roast, toffee and plummy fruitiness. Mild bitterness. Clean finish. OK

Kind of a "standard" belgian ale. Nothing special, still solid and quite enjoyable.

This Brune pours like a tawny port! The nose is toasty and smells of black coffee with faint sweet raisin! The sweetish palate reveals a rather spicy mid-palate with both toasty and black coffee characters showing up once again. The bittersweet (almost dark chocolate in character) finish is persistent. Somewhat similar to a stout!

75cL bottle. Pours a dark caramel-amber brown with a foamy tan head and tree branch lacing. Smells of spice (clove), brown sugar, yeast, and alcohol. Full bodied with a boozy feeling into the finish. Tastes of dark caramel, clove, toffee, and yeast with a hint at banana and some dark fruits. Feels heavy and syrupy. Finish is a thick brown sugar and caramel with a kick of bitterness. Pretty well-balanced throughout (there are perhaps a few times when the spice overshadows the other flavors, but nothing too serious). Definitely a good beer, but it doesn’t have the light and lithe feeling that some (relatively heavy) Belgian beers have.

Bottle 33 cl. A dark brown colour with a medium high head. Aroma of fruit, nuts and some chocolate. The taste is medium sweet. Medium carbonation.