Scheldebrouwerij Dulle Griet

Bottle @ home. Dark brown, off white head. Nose of brown sugar, dark fruits, chocolate. Taste is brown sugar, roasted malts, dark fruits and chocolate. Soft bitterness in the finish. Very smooth and really tasteful dubbel.

Tasted home 18 march ’08. Bottle, 33 cl. (Bought @ Geers) Hazy, red-brown color, with a nice off-white head. Aroma sweet malts, dark fruits. Medium body. Taste sweet, also dark fruits, (raisins and berries), bit caramel bitterness on the back.

Appearance: reddish brown color. Big head of ivory to pale beige color, semi-dense and lasting. Aroma: to caramel malts, slight chocolate and truffles smells. Intensive ripe fruity and semi-critic aromas, with reminiscences of plums, cherries and raisins. Vanilla cookies from yeasts. Very light clove smells. Flavors: toast malts in the start with caramel reminiscences. Toffee notes, slightly smoky and woody. Good balance of yeasts (not excessive), that with the toasted malts remember me a toast bread and vanilla cookies. Fruity taste similar to banana, candied plums, raisins and, maybe, blackberries. Reminiscences of chocolate with cherries that almost could be chewed. Some vinous and like cherries liquor. Semi-toasted, chocolaty and yeasty aftertaste. Palate: medium body and semi-oily. Low carbonation. Remark: interesting, semi-complex and balanced beer. Fruity and chocolaty touches that almost could be chewed.

330ml bottle from Beers Of Europe. Malt fruit cake aroma. Alcohol. Dry and slightly chalky with pleasant dark bread flavours. This is an acceptable strong brown beer, but it lacks character, quality or individuality.