St. Benoît Brune

Brewed by Du Bocq
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Purnode-Yvoir, Belgium

Red brown pour head starts out well,good carbonation.head lasting well,aroma lemon,malt,some fruit,flavour malt,figs,brown sugar,finish is sweet and with a sour taste that lingers.

Dark brown with huge thick lasting creamy head. Aroma is sweet with roasted malt and ripe fruits. Sweet flavor with roasted malt and brown sugar.

Bottle, bought @ Fox & Hounds, Aabenraa. Pours a deep brown red with a pretty, frothy white head. Aroma is mild with a touch of chocolate and caramel. Watery and rather thin palate. Flavour has a little dried fruits, caramel, raspberries and chocolate. But overall, this is a seriously boring Belgian.

330ml bottle in Lyon. Nice dark brown colour with a 1cm persistent head. Aroma is sweet and alcoholic and the flavour is dominated by caramel malt. Palate too watery for my liking - overall a very average dubbel.

Bottle. Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is light malty, caramel, light to moderate hoppy, moderate yeasty. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is lively to soft. (181107)

Bottle. Dark red/ruby colour with a small head. Fruity aroma, grapes and plum. Taste of plum, malt, nice hoppy finish.

Cola brown with cream froth. Drank this over a 2 hour period, and it got better. Liquorice and yeast extract giving way to a chocolate malty smoothness. Quite a heady orange-accented aroma with dusting of ginger or anise-like spice, wet leaves and chocolate. Hops detectable. Better without the ’delicate sparkle’. Creamy, balanced and packed with Belgian spice on the re-rate. Would make a cracking house beer- big on flavour but not overly demanding. Really decent bruin/dubbel.

2 months after bbf Dark mahogny look, with a sustaining dense brown head. Aroma is abit like a brown ale, sweet and nutty. Flavor brings forths the fruity esters, but overall the sweetness is too much, and the bitterness too dull and a little metallic.