Leffe Brune

Pours a deep brown colour with thin lacy head. Nice level of malty sweetness. Finish is slightly bitter.

330ml Bottle: Poured a rich mahogany with a thick foam head. Excellent head retention and lacing throughout on this one. A complex aroma rich in cherry, apple, and grape alongside sugar and roasted malts. The flavour is quite yeasty with great caramel malt flourishes and faint hops in the back. As it warms I noticed a strong port wine flavour with a touch of nuts in the aftertaste. One of the few abbey dubbel’s to lose intensity and flavour as it warms, but still a good brew.

Bottled. Malt, banana, raisin and cove in the aroma. Flavor is initially burnt malt, progreesing to fruit and bitterness. Mouthfeel is surprisingly thin. A little nice lasting bitterness. Overall a decent mass produced belgian ale and i like the roasted quality, but i probably prefer the blond.

One of the first beers that open my eyes to what great beer could tast like. First go at a double at the time. Smooth, ritch and very drinkable, with a light/dark color and tast. A slight bit of burned caramel and a sweet ending.

Let me say right away that I prefer the maltyness of dubbels to the spiciness of tripels. The aroma & flavour were highly malty, so I liked it, even though slightly medicinal. Finish is a little sweet but that’s alright in my book too.

Poured from the bottle at Hideaway Bar in Wimbledon (London), dark black with a large rocky tan head. A yeasty aroma with caramal. Quite carbonated in the mouth, spicey caramal flavours and a tangy finish.

Has nice white-brown head, aroma is a bit yeasty and chocolate, tastes on chocolate and caramel and slightly bitter aftertaste.

Bottle. Golden brown with mostly lasting beige head. Aroma offers plenty of malt (some of which burnt), and some bitterness. In the flavor these are supplemented with some sweet caramel and a little hint of espresso. Fairly long slightly bitter finish.