2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: OCT 29, 2011 Bottle. While making a list of the beers in the house, I see that this bottle (that’s bought about a month ago...) is about 1 year over the exparation date... Wanted to try it anway, with some luck the extra months gave extra taste... Dark brown, a bit cola like substance. Some foam, but not a lot, and disappears almost instant. Bad sour-earthy taste, real, real bad, made me puke. Really needs another test with a good bottle, can’t imagine it’s anything like this! Edit... finally a retaste. Head holds longer, but still not great. Taste and smell isn’t great either but at least I didn’t have to puke...malts, caramel and dark fruit, a bit unpleasant mouthfeel.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle.Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma of roasted malts, and sweet coffee. Flavors of roasted malts, caramel, a hint of chocolate and blackberries and some spices. Good carbonation, sweet and bitter dry finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a hazy medium amber. Aroma is lightly malty, hoppy, yeasty. Flavor is moderately sweet, alcoholic, roasty dark. Not nearly as good as some of the other Abbey Dubbels I’ve had recently.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
[2758-20100212] 330mL bottle. Rich fruity malt aroma with a hint of cherry and candy. Hazy, dark brown red body with a long-lasting creamy light mocha head and some lacing. More rich roasted wood malt flavour with baked fruit notes and a long-lasting fruity aftertaste. Full body. Fine shape, more boozy and fruity as it warms.
(@ Smokeless Joe’s; Toronto, ON)
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
20060121 330 ml bottle. Medium brown with lasting tan head. Aroma and flavor are familiar from other middling-bitterness dark Belgians. This one was particularly yeasty with serious bubblegum notes that reminded me of Duvel. Just digging up some old ratings, not much here as far as detail.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours very dark brown red with beige head that did not stay long and only left a ring. Aroma of roasted malts, and sweet coffee. Flavors of roasted malts, caramel, a hint of chocolate and blackberries and some spices.
Good carbonation, sweet and bitter dry finish. Very nice ballance of flavors and very enjoyable.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Ceramic bottle. Pours a murky dull brown with a small thin bubbly head, probably just too old. Aroma of strongly oxidized rich caramel and grassy spicy Belgian yeast. Flavor is very sweet caramel, rich oxidized malts, and Belgian yeast, doughy, condensed milk, very cloying. Medium bodied smooth with no carbonation, thinner but very sticky.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
33cl bottle poured into a Westmalle Trappist glass. Deep amber brown with about one finger tan head. Aroma is soft candy sugar, light toffee, subtle fruit. Flavor is toasty malt, dark fruit, subtle cocoa. Highly carbonated. Lasting bitter finish. I liked the subtle flavoring but the carbonation got in the way of full enjoyment.
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