Leffe Brune

Brewed by InBev Belgium
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Leuven, Belgium

330 ml bottle from LCBO, served cool in a tulip glass.

App.: Slightly reddish brown, decent greyish-tan head. Aroma: Loads of yeast and fresh bread dough, some light spices and minty herbals, caramel and toffee, a bit of dark dried fruits, Palate: Medium body and soft but present effervescence. Flav.: Still plenty of yeasty and bread dough, the more spice raisins than the nose, a fair bit of toffee and treacle, light minty herbals, lightly nutty; almost a dirty yeast finish that isn’t very pleasant.

It is nice to have this in the LCBO and to find it on tap, though it isn’t my favourite Dubbel.

Draft sampled. Pours a dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma of caramel, fruits, brown sugar, and some spices. Flavor is well balanced an rich with sweet malts, caramel, dark fruits and raisins with a bitter finish

Dark brown colour with a thick firm head. Aroma of roasted malt, fruits, sweet coffee and chocolate. Medium bodied. Finishes well.

Bottle.33cl. Spicy rich aroma. Great appearance, deep brown with almost a perfect off white dough head. Long and pleasant aftertaste.

Big frothy beige head, dark brown liquid. Fruity banana aromas with a rich full body.

[832-20071110] Tap @ Bier Markt (Toronto, ON). Faintly malty aroma. Clear, dark red body with a long-lasting creamy light tan head and thick lacing. Banana malt and wheat yeast flavour has toasted Belgian characteristics. Medium-full body. Nice, repeatable, hides the alcohol well.

330 ml bottle - pours a deep, deep reddish brown with a bubbly off-white head. Aroma slightly musty with some sweet prune and raisin notes as well as some spiciness from the yeast. Sweet, plummy flavour, along with the aforementioned yeast spiciness present. A strangely chalky finish. Not terribly complex. Good beer, not great.

Still my favourite Leffe offering. Pours ruby-brown colour with frothy beige head. Has a nicely balance flavour of roasted toffeish malts with note of plums and cocoa.