St. Bernardus Pater 6

Brewed by St. Bernard Brouwerij
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Watou, Belgium

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

0.33l, bb 23 04 10. Slightly cloudy, dark copper-brown with a huge head that lasts forever. Aroma is spicy toffee with dates. Flavors of rum and raisins, earthy root-spiced caramel, dried wood, and some slight pepper-spiced hops. Sorta smooth, light-medium body is dry and tingly on the finish.

Bottle sampled with Beerded_one. Pours deep copper\amber with a decent sized off white head. Aroma of citrus, belgian style spices, slight fruit, and yeast. The flavor is smooth, sweet, fruit, yeast, citrus, toasted malts. Good body, good brew, perhaps my favorite of this style.

Bottle (in NZ), pours a hazy reddish-brown with a filmy head. Whiskeyish oaky and smokey aroma, with hints of citrus and medicinal notes. A heavy malty palate, quite a bit of carbonation. Some sweet fruit at first, also chocolate flavours that become more obvious in the finish, which also has some of those whiskeyish characteristics again. Worryingly easy to drink!

330mL Bottle. Rated blind. Third out of a set of 12 Abbey Dubbels. Apple-forward yeast and a bit of pils malt sugar. Quiet. Pours a brilliant, hazy blood-orange red, with a lacy, sheeting off-white head. Flavor is odd. Oxidized pilsner malt, sulfur, more minerals, and aged green apple skins. Very slightly solvent-like, which is unappealing. Kind of thin and alcohol forward. I wish I was digging this, because it’s ultra-dry, yeast-complex, fruity, peppery, and well carbonated, but somehow I’m yearning for darker malts, more complimenting yeast and less conflicting minerals. GUESS: Westmalle or Ommegang

Slightly hazed brown appearance, thick head formation. Bready, toffee aroma, mildly toasted. Yeasty fruitiness, banana and raisin, roasted nuts, mild spice, slightly dryish toasty finish.

I drink this “Pater” in remembrance of Father Dan O’Sullivan at St. Irenaeus, who married me to my wife and baptized our kids, who enjoyed any beer I brought him and with whom I shared my first DFH WWS. Pours deep brown with a big head that needed some time to settle. Nice smell of raisins and plums, with sweetness emanating from the glass. After that buildup, the taste actually runs a little light. Sweetness is NOT that heavy. Instead, like a modest ale, it simply delivers a nice blend of malt and some nearly German-type hop sharpness. Lot of chunky foam and lace sticking around the glass. Fruitiness not as apparent in the taste. This bottle, at least, slides in more like a basic fine ale. And that’s just fine by me.

Light solid brown with a finger of light tan head, plum and prune aroma. Sweet malts, light candy sugar notes. Taste is nice and sweet and malty, more prunes, light banana note and very bready and yeasty spicy on the finish.