New Belgium Abbey

Pours a very light amber color with a very thick light-creme colored head that leaves great lacing. The aroma is a strong banana scent, with a slight hint of nuts. The taste starts hoppy, and ends incredibly smooth. A slight hint of an earthy/coffee is also present, but barely noticeable over the alcohol. It feels very active on the tongue, very light bodied for what it is. Another great NBBC beer.

First impression: smells like homebrew. Sharp alcohol aroma with grapes and cherry. Golden brown with vigorous carbonation. Pretty. Fusel burn. Cherry, maybe some banana. Maybe I just don’t like the style...

12oz bottle-Great looking beer. Pours a dark amber color with a nice fluffy head. The aroma is of corriander, banana, and oarange typical of the style. Sweet mouthfeel with a citrus finish. An excellent brewery for Belgium style beers. Known for Fat Tire Amber Ale but if you get a chance try all of thier beers.

Bottle, best by Aug 2006. Great looking beer. Dark, hazy ruby with a great head that doesn’t go away ... then again, the Chimay glass may be aiding this. Aroma is a little light when compared to others in the style. Very typical Belgian aroma: banana, vanilla, corriander and sweetbread. Very full mouthfeel at first, and at finish, but there’s a flash of thinness in the middle. Very sweet in the mouth. Banana, chocolate and a little bit of dark fruit to begin. Slightly dry and bitter, with more sweetness to finish. Cloves and corriander show up around midbottle. I think it’s trying to be Chimay Red, but needs a little work to get there. After it warms, it gets a little more watery. All in all, though, it’s pretty good. Thanks, Andre!

Had this at the tasting room at the brewery. The beer poured a hazy dark-ash brown with a large, creamy, white, fully lasting head that left a fetching wall of Belgian lace on the glass. The aroma was heavily malty with notes of roasted grain; Light hop notes of herbs and pine; trace yeast notes of earth; and trace miscellaneous notes of wood, aspen bark, honey and cornflakes. The flavor was moderately sweet and lightly bitter with a long, slightly unclean moderately bitter finish. The body was medium-to-full, the texture was watery-to-velvety, the carbonation was soft and there was a light alcoholic feeling at the end. Kind of a cricketfest for what it’s wanting to be.

Translucent, magnifying copper-brown in color with a separated, grey foamy moss shaped head. Aroma is spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, along with additional accents from ginger spread over chocolate grahams, shortbread, cinnamon sticks and chai tea. Flavor profile is larger than the aroma would indicate. Maple and cinnamon sticks help to bring this one down to an earthen level, where chestnut shells just so happened to have fallen onto as well. Chai tea (spice and sweetness) is very prevalent, although there’s something that seems artificial. Cocoa dust and nutmeg cover a condescending impulse. Golden raisins pulled out of sweet vermouth. Nearly syrupy on the palate, yet slick and slippery at the same time. Belgian yeast and chocolate and caramel malts tend to tip the scale, finishing with nutty cola and the form of spicing that sits on top of the froth of a holiday cafe mocha. Thanks for the bottles, RooftopRogue!

12 oz. Bottle: Pourrs a deep brown color with a reddish-straw tint. The head is a tall and proud off-white color. The aroma is of corrieander, dough, bannanas, yeast, floral, spices, a VERY typical belgium aroma, imo. The taste is nice. Took me a while to place my flavors ... but they finally came to me as the following: spices, nice malts that I really enjoyed, bananna, very slightly some figs/prune flavors, and an overall nice taste. Could be a tad more complex, but a pretty typical belgium. The mouthfeel was a tad carbonated for a belgium, imo but not bad at all.

Pours amber with an off white head. Smells of dough, sugar, spices and some rosey notes. Taste is fruity with some grapes, spices and yogurt coming through.