2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Quite a disappointing brew from Phillips, but I don’t like the blonde Surley much either. Way too sweet and cloying both in nose and palate. Not much in the looks department either, with nary a head to be found. Sticky palate.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle:
Rather clear red-cola color with a very light cap that does not last long.
Faint nose: wisps of dark candi sugar, caramel malts...very faint.
Flavor profile...seems a tad sweet with the Candi sugar and thin on malts, hops are non existant...the yeast does produce some nutty tastes that offset the smokey molasses but overal this is a kind of thin uneventful dubbel.
If you were expecting Bernardus Pater you will miss the value of this ale...it is a very approachable dubble for people who are not really used to the Belgians styles ...kind of like Leffe...it serves a purpose as a gateway dubbel but that’s about all.
1.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
Darker mudy brown with no head. Sugary and syrupy flavour with minimal nose. Perhaps it was off but something didn’t seem right.
1.1 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 3/20
Bright reddish-brown colour...looks nice. Sort of a light aroma with vague caramel, molasses and spent grains. Thin, hollow and gutless nuts/caramel taste. Sweet, bland and poorly executed. Malt flavours are too thin and simplistic. This yeast is useless. Gets worse as the glass goes, too.
2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
(660ml bottle) Purchased at the Strath in Victoria for $4.95. Deep ruby body with a creamy tan head. Nose of roasted coffee grounds and a minor egg aroma. Roasted malt mixed sour milk. One of my least favourite Phillips brews.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Malt forward aroma is quite sweet with caramel, brown sugar, some fruity esters and a hint of butterscotch. Clear ruby brown body is topped by a fizzy, tan head that diminishes rapidly to ring. Sweet caramel flavour with some fruity esters, doughy yeast and a hint of peat and dark malt bitterness at the finish. Medium light body with fizzy carbonation. Tulip glass. Cellar temperature. Bottle (Brewery Creek, Apr-07).
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Brown with small beige head.Malt,alcohol & brown sugar nose and palate.Small plentiful bead, but still seems undercarbonated
No detectable hops
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
Very faint, almost undetectable dark fruit/malt aroma. Pours a rich dark red with a few bubbles and no head, not even a ring or lace. Tastes like Dr. Pepper with some hops. Low carbonation, light body, light peppery/hoppy aftertaste. A passable dubbel, and after tasting their regular Surly (tripel) I’d have to say this is a step in the right direction, but we’re not quite there yet.
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