Leffe Brune

Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Leuven, Belgium

On tap: Brown with an off-white head. Stale sweet malt aroma, thin bodied, fruity taste that is tempered by cardboard. The most boring dubbel that I've had.

Bottle. Musty yeast, pear, tropical fruit and toast aromas with occasional solventy fumes. Sweet flavour with a faint caramelised roasty bitterness. Mouthfeel variable but a bit thin in places. Varies from mouthful to mouthful. Inviting aroma but the rest is lacking.

Bottle. Deep reddish brown,with a medium, quickly diminishing off-white head. Malty aroma, slighlty roasty, with yeast and earthy, herbal hops. medium bodies. Nice balance between sweet, rosted malts and a medium bitterness. Much better than Leffe Blonde.

Huge, fast diminishing head. Brown amber colored, Yeast and malt intense nose. Weak but nice malt, sweet raisons taste, also hints of toffee. Ok.

Tap - Barca Setalle WA
Seved in the proper glass and the right temp. The ber was deep amber in color with a light head. The aroma was weet and the ber was such a great flavor. robust in flavors and light fruitness like rasisn was great. This was a great beer to drink.

Gorgeous brown,huge lasting rocky tan head, tiny bead.Light banana nose. Too much yeast and too little malt for a dubbel. Bitter finish. A rather poor representation of the style

Bottle: Poured a dark brown beer with a nice head with medium retention. Aroma is comprised solely of some malt, which seems a bit weak. Taste is somewhat malty, though a bit too diluted for my taste, with a light chocolate ending. Carbonation is very average and body in too thin for an Abbey Dubbel. Overall, this is a notch below standard dubbel but very good for a macro beer. Hey, I think the world would be a better place if macro brewers could produced more beer like this one.

Boy, this one was fantastic. Nice brown colored ale with a mild Belgian style sweetness (and also some bitterness). Some very low levels of vinegar in the aroma and flavor, but not to that of a typical flemish sour. Head was solid, but the lacing maintained itself throughout the drink. I’ll get another one of these whenever I get the opportunity. Edit: My third tasting of this on draft in Canada resulted in a carboard type after taste. Not sure if that is typical for the Canadian version (if there is even such thing) or just the freshness of that keg. I’d drop my ratings if that happened again. But don’t worry (yet another update), it hasn’t happened again, many times a good deal in the US at The Half Moon in Kennett, PA!