Sjarelke Donker

Brewed by De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Lochristi - Hijfte, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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33cl, thx to Jerre!, complex brew, balanced, hazy, good head, good brew

Bottle@Home. A few months past it’s BBD but I think this has done it much good. Port and licorice aroma. Very dark brown, light brown head, good lace. Port, dark malts, sweet, licorice, light bitter. Tasted aged but just a bit. Full and flavourful.

Botella. Cloudy deep amber brown coour. Sweet yeasty caramel malty arma with a little chocolate to it. Sweet yeasty caramel and malty flavour with some chocolate and fruitiness.

Bottle. High lasting fluffy off-white head. Pitch balck body. Sweet roasted malt aroma. Sweet roasted malt flavor with with cocoa and caramel.

Bottle, courtesy of a hardcore Danish crew
Cloudy brown color; medium head, creamy. Nice caramel aroma, light cocoa and cookies. Sweet malt and caramel flavor; light cereals touch; low bitterness; no alcohol feeling. Easy but pleasant.

33 cL bottle, courtesy of KimJohansen. Pours cloudy dark brown with a huge chocolate brown head. Aroma is roasted breadish and toffee caramelish. Light yeasty. Roasted malty and caramelish flavoured. Mild breadish lingering finish.

Muddy burgundy with with a medium beige bupply head. Sweet aroma with hard roasted malt and coffee notes. Flavour had hard roasted malt, coffee and chocolate notes.

dark brown, small yellow head. dark caramel dominates the aroma, faint toffee. flavor is licorice, caramel, malts very nice mix, and very tasty.

33cl bottle. Cap reads 5/11/08. Heavy aroma of moist brown sugar. Some mild apple cider vinegar tartness. Pureed prunes. Some stale dustiness underneath the sweetness. A bit of acetone, which is slightly surprising. Mostly, though, leaning toward the sweet side. Pours a dark brown, ruby highlights with a thin, but frothy dark khaki head. Flavor starts with some dark prune and raisin sweetness, loses all flavor mid-palate and finishes with some lightly roasted malt. Very, very light anise and brown sugar flavors are detected as well. Slightly on the thin side body-wise. Lively carbonation. Yeast pour yields a bit more spice on the finish, but adds nothing to the body. Upon warming, there is a hint of bakers chocolate found toward the finish. An unspectacular Dubbel (that may be past it’s prime). Thanks for the rare treat Amy!

(33cl bottle) Pours a dark brown with a medium beige head. Aroma of raisins, prunes, and roasted malt. Flavor of roasted malt, raisins, brown sugar, and prunes.