New Belgium Abbey

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

I must’ve got an old sixpack. I thought it was just okay. Pours brown, sort of clear, with some hint of fruity aroma, but not a lot of aroma. What do I need to do to clear my nasal passages? Tasted slightly carmelly, decent enough, but not overly fantastic, in my opinion.

2009 Bottle - Pours dk amber with a medium tan head...aroma is spicy fruit, bready...flavour is bubblegum, clove, cocoa...banana and sweet malt but not too sticky...after I don’t know know how many NB let downs, I really enjoyed this...I was pretty buzzed already though...

old rating note -- bottle from somewhere in portland. clear dark brown pour with off-white creamy head. aroma of dark fruit, brown sugar, nuts, sweet yeast and alcohol. tingly well balanced double taste. bready w/ bit of citrus.

Poured reddish brown with a tan head. Yeast and fruit aroma. Taste was malty with some spice, caramel and a touch of cocoa. Some dark fruit as well. Very nice.

12oz bottle. Pours a murky brownish copper body with bits of yeast particulate floating around. Inch thick, dense and foamy, light tan head that dissipates slowly and remains pretty heavily laced. Aroma is sweet Belgian candies with a nice fruity Belgian yeast strain. Quite malty and fruity with lots of dark fruits, cherries, and bananas as well as a nice, subtle spicing. Good amount of chocolate and caramel in there too. Flavor is similar in complexity, but not as sweet. More towards the chocolate malts and drier spicing. The spicing stays subdued and soft, but is more noticeable along with a bit of roasted malts. Caramels and darker fruits as well before a dry, yeasty, spicy finish with a long chocolate spice aftertaste. Palate is medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Overall, a nice example of a dubbel. More chocolatey than most with a nice balance of spices that are lighter than most. I’m a fan of this. Complex assortment of malts (which still has a bit of that biscuity NB taste, but not nearly as much as usual...which is nice...because I tend to like their biscuit malt taste, but not in excess), fruits, and yeast that give it a more dessert-like dubbel taste which puts it right up my alley.

Draught. Poured a clear reddish brown. Aroma of sweet fruit, spice, and a yeasty backside. Taste is somewhat like the aroma... but has a slight bitter finish. Meh...

I was thoroughly impressed with the quality of NB’s triple a few days ago. I’ve had their dubbel a few times, but it’s been 3-4 years since I had it. I decided to rate a few NB’s while watching my Celts play and this was the 4th of my 5 beers this afternoon. Yeah, it’s great watching b-ball and getting drunk. LOL. So the beer pours out really stunning nut-brown/cherrywood color with a 2" thick beige, creamy head. Sticky lacing left behind is really nice. Aroma has a multi pronged attack. First it’s sweet roasted malts, then dried Christmas-type fruitcake fruits show up, then it switches gears to show off the nice yeast profile. Very perfumy. Mouthfeel is slightly hot with alcohol, medium bodied but solid. Flavors are just bounding my tastebuds every-which-way. A toffee wrapped banana, peppery and cloves, and the explosion of dark pitted fruits is quite enjoyable. Perhaps the residual sweetness plays on my sweet-tooth. A finely crafted beer that I enjoyed back then and it still holds it’s own today. Kudos to NB.

Rusted amber colour, with have inch white head, ubiquitous aroma of pear, after tones of bananas can be distinctly identified. Medium body with smooth taste of banana, prefer a bit more complexity but certainly one of New Belgium’s best.