New Belgium Abbey

Brewed by New Belgium Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Pours caramel-amber into the glass, with a sudsy off-white head that leaves medium soapy lacing. The nose is explicitly of Bazooka bubblegum. Flavors have bubblegum sugars, sweet malt, melon, some light doughy yeast, finishing with bubblegum effervescence and a tiny balancing bitter/white flour note. The mouthfeel is semi-active, with appropriate carbonation and is medium-light bodied; slick to the palate. Decent Abbey Dubbel, but possibly gets lost in the midst of the genre.

I’m giving this one a high score. It’s comparable to Ommegang Abbey Ale, which is saying something. Very nice. My favorite from New Belgium.

Pours a reddish brown color with a thick off white head that leaves great lacing. Smells of dark fruit, cloves, chocolate, banana, and Belgian yeast. Tastes of all the same things with a slightly hoppy but nice aftertaste. Mouthfeel is medium and chewy with great carbonation and a dry finish. This is a nice American interpretation of a Belgian dubbel one of the best actually, full of flavor and well balanced.

Pours reddish amber, with a tan head. Aroma is floral, very pleasant. Not much lacing on this beer. High alcohol content overwhelms the taste, which is mostly caramel malts, not a lot of distinctive hop flavor. Surprisingly good aftertaste, though. Still, I think I’ll pass next time.

Bottle from Champanes, this ale had a clear dark red-ruby pour with darker red and brown at the sides of the glass, it gave an initial one to two finger off-white to light tan colored head that receded to a thin cover (that was always there) with many little mounds of bubbles from the streams of effervescence below, the glass was filled with many streams of bubbles, this beer left spots, small rings and sheets of lacing as I drank, the bottom of the bottle had a very thin film of light brown sediment that flowed or moved a bit when drops of beer rolled through it, it had aromas of raisin, prune, date and ripe banana fruit with bread and toasted malt, the sweetness consisted of malt, banana and dark fruit, a little chocolate and spice in the background, the flavors of were toasted malt, raisin and date, the finish had very little bitterness and there was malt flavor trailing afterwards, not as sweet on the tongue as I expected, the mouth feel was medium or a touch more and felt creamy on the lips, it had average to lively carbonation, on the lighter side of Dubbel Ales with a softer palate and less sweetness than many Dubbels I have sampled, a nice abbey style beer.

Pours dark brown color with tan head. Aromas of dark fruits and dough with some spices. Sweet fig, raisin and prune flavor with doughy yeast, caramel, candi sugar, and some spices. Medium body with average carbonation.

I was pleasantly surprised by this one. For an American brewed beer it is great a nice full flavor with hints of caramelized banana and aromas of the same.

This is just a very standard Belgian style ale. Nicely done. Easy drinking and balanced.

Bottle. Dark caramel color with large, dense head. Lots of clove in the aroma with banana in the end. Banana, bread and clove flavor. Light body and really smooth.

Nice drink. Pours dark mahogany with a little lacing, minimal head. Floral aroma, resin and grass with some oak in the flavour. Comes off a little bitter. Average carbonation. Bottle.