3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Amber/ruby in color with a small light tan head. Aroma is sweet,malty, bready with mild fruit. Flavor is of caramel malt,nutty,chocolate and some alcohol.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: MAY 31, 2005 Clear ruby with a thin off-white small-bubbled head. Sweet aroma with dark fruits (plums), medium bodied, sugary sweet tastes. Ends a bit watery.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
Hazy mahogany with an of white head. I smell corn silage from my Grandparents farm. I guess I know why the cows dig this shit so much. Quite sweet with some raisin conotations in the middle. Not the best dubbel I have had...kinda reminds me of the Lake Placid Dubbel Bogey.
2.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Aroma is sweet and sugary. Kind of strong. Pours a hazy mahogany with an off-white head. Start is VERY sweet and VERY MALTY. I mena it’s decent, but nothing extraordinary. I reckon im going to give it a -1 point for appearance due to the trailer park label.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: JUL 7, 2004 Not impressed. Pours dirty iced tea. NO head. Some pleasant aromas fruity/malt maybe some chocolate coffee. Finish is sticky and flat.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark ruby copper color with a thin light tan, short-lived head and mostly flat body. Sugary dark malt aroma with some fruitiness. Thin watery mouthfeel has a light sourness and plenty of sweetness to mask the alcohol quite well. Finishes sticky and sugary. Has a somewhat authentic bready Belgian malt character and hints of Belgian yeast. A decent dubbel, but not one of McNeill's better brews.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Candi sugar and maple throwing their sweetness around to distract the confused tastebuds...Dirt and watery trashcans are mistakenly knocked over and the damage is irreparable...Caught in the chaos of a barley wine/brown ale interregnum...
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Half of a 660mL bomber into a Delirium Tremens glass. Body is chocolate milk brown with very low carbonation, off-white head is barely there, making just a ring around the glass. Weird nose for a dubbel: Where I expected dark berries and fruitiness was a vegetable touch, not particularly appealing, but classic vanilla and black chocolate are also there to save us from the disaster (a bland dubbel?!!). The taste is more interesting and complex than the aroma. Sweet chocolate bars slowly become bitter. The alcohol shows its nose together with a slight salty peak. The mouthfeel is a little thin and lacking as well. It's indeed not a typical dubbel and it's almost hard to understand why Mcneills would brew this (not representative of their qualities, it's not a good introduction to micros, their most hardcore fans just like pure belgians fans won't find this particularly attractive neither... anyway, I'm not here to judge, but to rate:)
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