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Leffe Brune

Leffe Brune

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83
overall
An Abbey Dubbel brewed by
InBev Belgium

Leuven, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
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7033.47/5.03.47/5.06.5%71.4Trappist glass P  Stats

Commercial Description:
A traditional Belgian abbey beer with a deep brown colour and a full, sweet and fruity aroma.
Ingredients: dark and torrefied malt, corn, water, hop and yeast.

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 Svesse (1839), Hässelby, Sweden
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/103/512/20

Aug 14, 2008  
(Draught at Dovetail, Farringdon, London, 4 Aug 2008) Dark brown colour with a frothy, beige head. Malty, fruity nose with chocolate, spices (clove, cardamom) and roasted malt. Malty, sweet taste with notes of chocolate, brown sugar and cola. Got a kind of industrial feel to it (no surprises). Way too sweet. Taste doesn’t manage to deliver what a promising aroma indicates. As with the other Leffe beers, quality seems to be going down, but it’s still drinkable.

johnnygm (14), Santiago, Chile
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/513/20
Nov 20, 2008  
A light and more commercial version of a trappist beer. Good head, good carbonation. Caramel, toasted malt, toffee and some nuts. Really easy to drink, and delicious. Very good considering it’s an industrial beer.


SeanMacGC (93), Dublin, Ireland
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/514/20
Nov 18, 2008  
Bottle, 33cl. Pours dark amber, with short-living off-white head. Malt and molasses on the nose, and similar on the palate with yeast undertones. But not that much going on with it, overall. A shadow of a beer in comparison to a genuine secondarily fermented beer, and added sugar is no substitute.


 gearbike (382), West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/514/20
Oct 29, 2008  
Deep brown flat color from tap. Complex fruit sweetness. Nice medium body. One glass was great two might be a bit to much.


 Kinz (1923), Glen Allen, Virginia, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Oct 25, 2008  
Had this at the Cafe Leffe in Paris, my only chance to try a new beer in an entire week in the city, a desolate wasteland of Kronenbourg and Heinekin. Deep brown, nice head. Flavor is lush malts, caramel accented, with loads of dark fruit. Quite complex and enjoyable. Would get more love here I suspect if it wasn’t an InBev product. Score perhaps inflated a bit by what the alternatives were during the week.


 efrumtheidiot (177), Czech Republic
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Oct 21, 2008  
pours a dark ruby brown (cola-colored) with an off-white head. special at tesco in prague! aroma is malty with some gentle dark fruits, a touch of brown sugar and some spice. taste is spiced with some faint dried fruits and lite brown sugar. not too complex, but has some nice flavors. even has a bit of a bitterish note in there. alcohol bites through with a slight numbing zing (no palate killer, but a little zing can be felt on the tongue), and a warming character on the finish. head retention is pretty good, with some foamy lacing present. mid- full bodied with a lightly prickly carbonation. overall a good brew. i wouldn’t pay too much for it, as i can see how this one could be overpriced (i payed 29Kc, or about $1.50 for a .33mL bottle). definitely worth a try though.



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