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New Belgium Abbey

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6893.63/5.03.62/5.07%92.9Trappist glass
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Winner of four World Beer Cup medals and eight medals at the Great American Beer Fest, Abbey Belgian Ale is the Mark Spitz of New Belgium’s lineup - but it didn’t start out that way. When Jeff and Kim first sampled the beer at the Lyons Folks Fest, reviews were mixed at best. One of founder Jeff’s first two Belgian style homebrews (along with Fat Tire), Abbey is a Belgian dubbel (or double) brewed with six different malts and an authentic Belgian yeast strain. Abbey is bottle-conditioned, weighs in at 7.0% alcohol by volume, and pairs well with chocolate (or boldly served by itself) for dessert.
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 holdenn (1440), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/514/20
Nov 2, 2007  
Rated blind from "Better Know a Style: Abbey Dubbel" tasting. Pours a red orange wiht a beige head. Caramels, red fruit and bread in the aroma. Flavor constitutes caramels, red fruit, plums, a touch of alcohol, and a a touch of banana bread. Burnt charred licrocie hints in the finish as it is warming a bit in the throat. Pretty tasty.


 charcot25 (181), Cordova, Tennessee, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 28, 2007  
Pours a deep brown with nice white head. Has a pronounced banana aroma and flavor but also bittersweet chocolate, rum and raisins. Has a slight astringent note, maybe due to a roasted malt addition?


 xnoxhatex (1305), Grand Rapids/Chicago, Michigan, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/515/20
Oct 27, 2007  
Rated blind from "Better Know a Style: Abbey Dubbel" tasting. Clear, dark amber/ruby red with small off-white head. Plum, dark fruit aroma, alc, medium in strength, nice. Caramel flavor, plum, dark fruit, grape/winey (red apple), banana, mild alc. Medium body, no carb, creamy. Fine enough, though something is off.


 tronraner (1910), Seymour, Tennessee, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Oct 22, 2007  
Bottle. Pours bold dark red with beige head. The aroma is malty with raisin and hints of chocolate and some yeasty notes of banana and clove. the flavor has a slight acidic lemon bite at first, then quite a bit of banana and some chocolate. Wood and clove come in the finish, and leave a dry malty aftertaste.


 puggy211 (584), cordova, Tennessee, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Oct 17, 2007  
12 oz bottle,picked up in west memphis,ar walgreens,dark brown,off white head,malty fruty aroma very nice,med carb,malty bready spicy flavor,med con very drinkable,slight bitter finish,clean finish.very nice beer blows fat tire out of the water!!!!!!!� have more!!!


 krysztofar (344), belleville, Illinois, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/512/20
Oct 14, 2007  
12oz bottle. color is deep ruby brown. a short lived off-white head forms briefly. sweet yeasty aroma with dark fuity notes and candy sugar being accounted for. clean and sweet with banana and clove notes. crisp full mouthfeel is anything but cloying. a beer with lots of character but not complexity.


 Scubatrip (388), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/515/20
Oct 12, 2007  
From the bottle, pours a dark reddish with a decent off-white head. Aroma is sweetly malty, a bit fruity--cherries particularly. Quite smooth and malty taste, again a bit fruity and cherry-ey. Not as thick as other dubbels, which makes it rather quaffable.


 RSRIZZO (1362), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/515/20
Oct 11, 2007  
Had this beer on 3/5/1999. Color is a deep rich amber with very good carbonation and a nice head. Aroma is a bit heavy with the scent of malt. Taste is a light roasted malt flavor. Stating with a medium body it goes down sharp. The finish is a mild roasted malt taste with very light bitterness. It’s a very tasty well rounded brew.



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