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RATINGS: 876   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.61   EST. CALORIES: 210   ABV: 7%
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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.

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
sersdf (1008) - chicago, Illinois, USA - SEP 16, 2007
thanks msonnenberg. New belgium. Abbey. good. Dark bgwn. Malty spicy.belg..an.4.7.7.3.15 . low characters waaing. pglm sucks

4.1
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
RblWthACoz (963) - Brooklyn, New York, USA - SEP 10, 2007
Wow. Okay. Finally something redeeming from NB. Pours a slightly cloudy ruby. Nose is very like, well, a Belgian brew. Yeasty with a sweet and citric tone. Taste is very good. Smooth and even. You get that slightly sweet edge that comes and goes with the rolling of the flavors. Overall a very good brew I think. Recently I was getting so irritated at the lack of interesting stuff from NB that I was about to just write the whole brewery off. But this one is redemption in a bottle. Damn good. The feel is slightly thick, but a bit lighter than some other Belgian brews. Definitely drinkable.

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
dwedin (245) - Happy Valley, Oregon, USA - SEP 5, 2007
Dark brown with a tan head that shrinks to a thin layer that hangs on for the duration. Very smooth, spicy, and fruit flavors, alcohol is hidden well.

3.5
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
drfabulous (2140) - Lexington, Kentucky, USA - SEP 1, 2007
An "as if" beer. As if you could try and duplicate a dubble. It’s not great, but it’s not as bad as I thought it might be. The flavor is nice and I may have to stop saying so many bad things about this brewery.

2.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
kp (9999) - Woodstock, Georgia, USA - SEP 1, 2007
Date: 01/18/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

clear dark brown, whispy head, sweet carmel and chocolate malt aroma and flavor, a nice sweet drinking belgian dubble,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

1.7
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 5/20
pintsize (1042) - Austin, Texas, USA - AUG 29, 2007
Bottle. Very dark amber. Smells like sour garbage. Really sour and tart taste. Carbonated garbage. Awful aftertaste. Do not want again. I do not get all the hype and excitement about this beer at all.

2.9
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
lb4lb (2021) - Austin, Texas, USA - AUG 27, 2007
Dark brown pour with a good tan head in a trappist glass. Standard fruity belgian yeast smell, but more lightly than most of the style, and mixed with a dark roasty malt like smell and flavor as well. As it warms big notes of licorice come through and stay. Taste was similar to the smell and was perhaps my favorite belgian beer, and I’m not a huge fan of them. I could definitely see this growing on me, and could get this again.

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
jetzler (622) - oklahoma city, Oklahoma, USA - AUG 10, 2007
Bottle, Dark malts, dried fruits some raisins, and figs. Pours and nice dark red color with some opaque colors. Nice taste, good malts, plenty of yeast some bananas. Nicely done, A decent dubbel. Its decently drinkable with nice malts and good yeast notes.


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