Midnight Sun La Mâitresse du Moine

Bottle: Poured a deep pitch-brown color ale with a large off-white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of light dry fruit with a spicy yeast and some light alcohol ester showing. Taste is quite charming with good notes of dry fruits and some spicy yeast leading way to some warm alcohol. Body is fuller then average with good carbonation. I thought a bit too much alcohol was showing and the yeast strain that was used was somewhat too spicy.

Bottle at home ... thanks to BeerBill for this little gem ... deep brown ... sweet yeast toffee nose ... raisins and plums rich and yeasty ... dark fruit and brown suger ...

Brew courtesy Hannont...thanks man! Pours a deep brown with a ridiculously sized dark tan head...nice looking pour! Aroma is sweet and sugary and combined with a plethora of dark fruit...raisins and plums abound! Flavor is oh-so-nice...loads of fruit flavors including raisins, plums and a hint of banana. A dose of chocolate in there and very yeasty...warm and inviting. Although I do not remember consuming too many Dubbels over my time, this has gotta be near the top for the category. Beautifully drinkable for the ABV...this one sits on that fine line that makes a beer very enjoyable...looking forward to my next MS experience!

My 900th rating.. woohoo and this beers 300th. Pours a very dark brown, unclear but a nice rich color, huge thick frothy fine tan head with lots of super fine silky bubbles as lacing. Very rich aroma, plums, cashews, black currants, hint of chocolate, varnish. This is a very tasty beer, dark and bitter, softly sweet and rich, very dry, lots of nutmeg, nice yeastiness, some banana esters blend wonderfully with the warming alcohol, darker roasted malts on the verge of being burnt, toffee, lightly fruity in the first taste but quickly becomes bitter. Great body, fluffy, lightly sharp abundant carbonation bubbles, a touch syrupy, very similar to an authentic trappist. Reminds me a bit of Great Divide Hibernation and Millstream Single White Friar with dry chocolate, however, the fruitiness really is reminiscent of a quad. A lovely beer and I think I made the right choice for my 900th rating.

Thanks to Wetherel...at barrel tasting. Another solid beer, MS style. Straightforward in style points, but beautifully crafted. Just not that appealing of a style for me and hence the average rating. Thanks for sharing, dude! I’m pretty sure chris mixed some santa’s with this...it was pretty tasty.

Bottle from Ross, but he failed to attach the rating I am supposed to give it. Perhaps because it was not from NC. Oh well. Pour a rich dark mahogany brown with a dense two fingers brown head. Nose is yeasty and full of nice sweet fruity esters. Medium bodied with a nice organic mouthfeel. Flavor of raisin, cocoa, and tobacco. Finish is has lots of dust and yeast (perhaps too much), with just a faint amount of alcohol. A solid Dubbel, but not worth going out of your way for like the Arctic Devil.

Bottle: Pours a gorgeous deep brown burgundy with just a touch of light coming through. The head is extremely dense- it looks like a nitro pour from a bottle. Gritty cocoa, spicy/dusty phenols from the yeast, a woody note and dates all come through in the aroma. Fluffy and creamy feel. Great flavor with a raisin note under lots of toasted graham cracker, cocoa shavings, earthy notes- almost peat-like, with a long toasted finish. I’m usually hard this this style, especially Belgian interpretations, but this is a beautiful beer. Well hidden alcohol and very well integrated.

Bottle shared by wetherel at the 2008 Lost Abbey Barrel Tasting. Dark mahogany color, nearly black. Sugary and fruity aroma with pear, raisin, banana and some bubblegum. Quite a bit of brown and candy sugar in the flavor, with toffee and a firm bitterness too. Finishes pretty easy, with a thick and coating body. Nice.