St. Bernardus Pater 6

Bottle (best before 080808). Looked nice, smelled nice enough. Tasted and felt like seltzer. Very watery and thin in the mouth. The yeastiness took over and pounded the spices into submission. Maybe I got a below average bottle.

Pours a medium brown with a big lasting frothy head. Nice sticky lacing. Aroma and flavor is spicy malt with a hint of roasted nut. Another solid Belgian ale.

Bottle: Subtle malt aroma with touches of raison, sweet nuts, bread, honey, and caramel. This beer is very enjoyable. It has a nice body and is very well balanced. I hate to use the word smooth, since the term has been high jacked by some undeserving beers, but this beer rightly deserves the adjective.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours amber with an off white head. Aroma of citrus, fruit, and yeast. The flavor is fruit, yeast, citrus, and toast. Good beer

From a slender 11.2 oz brown bottle with a best before on the back label, 13.08.07, sampled at cellar temperature in a chalice. Poured a nice dubbel brown with a foamy, fluffy head that slowly settled into a thin fluffy, sudsy lacing, a small amount of laced sticking. Aromas of barley, roasted malts, and subtle hints of licorice and caramel. Good carbonation and a crisp, dryish, and carbonated creamy smooth light bodied mouthfeel. Nice dubbel taste, roasted barley, licorice and caramel, a pear fruitiness, a spicy, peppery hop bitterness, a little solvent-like alochol, and a dryish yeasty and malty finish. Easy, smooth drinkability, quite quaffable, a good dubbel from a quality Belgian brewery.

Bottle and served in my St. Bernardus chalice. Poured a murky russet brown with a small but lasting creamy beige head and okay lace. The aroma has notes of plum, pear, fig, honey, candi sugar, aromatic pipe tobacco, papery yeast esters and a hint of cardamom. The taste is moderately sweet with the overtones of ripened fruits, honeycomb, sugar, and caramel malts but it backs off (or better yet... is short) just in time. There is a interesting quick dash of tartness and spice on the finish. The palate is okay, not heavy but not thin either, soft carbonation and dry finish. A quaffable brew in the end if you let in warm.

Body is a brown color with a 1/4 inch off white head. Aroma is grapes, rum, caramel and honey. Taste is caramel, very light pleasant alcohol taste, dried fruit and grapes. LIttle hard to describe, but very good.

Muddy brown color with nice off white head. Malty aroma with hints of sweet nuts and bread crust. Mouthfeeling is refresching and in the taste there are hints of earth and nuts. Medium boddied beer with good afthertaste