Val-Dieu Brune

Brewed by Brasserie de l’Abbaye du Val-Dieu
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Aubel, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

Botteled at Horsens Beerfestival. Hazy brown body with a medium beige head. Aroma of sweet, light roasted malt, caramel, spices and dry fruit. Flavor is sweet, mild roasted malt, caramel, spicy and some dry fruit. Rather plain and one-dimensional.

Best Before: 09/09/10 Appearance: Pours out a clear, dark reddish-brown body with a large, frothy, ivory-colored head. Nice, delicate lacing. Smell: Malty, mocha-scented aroma with further notes of nutty toffee, dark fruits, booze, and candi sugar. Taste: Heavily sweetened mocha, sugary toffee candy, and even a pinch of cocoa powder strike the palate. Flavors of fruit, anise, baked bread, and sourish yeast are present but this all gets somewhat obscured by all this rampant sweetness. Drying finish (though still quite sweet) with just the tiniest bit of alcohol heat. Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Moderate carbonation lends some assistance in scrubbing away all of those pesky sugars. Drinkability: While not exactly a classic of the style, it remains a sweet, pleasant dubbel.

Bottle from my dad. Dark brown colour. Really nice dubbel, caramel and really spicy aroma. Sweet, then bitter and sour/tart flavour. Overall a bit watery.

A 0.75 ceramic bottle (12/06) shared at Pikkulintu. Thanks Marjut. Apple and toffee in the nose. Pale reddish brown colour.. Pale head. SOme dark fruits in the nose. Also some medicinelike in the taste. A slight chocolate ion the taste.

(0.75 l ceramic bottle, bottled at 12/06, at Pikkulintu, Helsinki) Dark reddish brown. Hazy. Malts and sweetness in nose. Full bodied and soft palate with medium carbonation. Malts, raisin, sweetness, black currant, hint of roastedness and some syrup in taste. Malts, sweetness and some roastedness in aftertaste.

Brown coloured beer with medium creamy off-white head and only few carbonation visible. Lots of yeast floks. Malty roasted aroma. Full creamy palate. Finish is sweet roasted.

33cl Bottle at Café de Paas. Clear dark brown beer with a red hue, creamy off-white to beige head. Aroma was a bit odd, musty, yeast, berries, some hops, alcohol, dry. Flavour is sweet, malty, dark fruits, brown sugar, but also with a nice underlying bitterness of hops and alcohol and even a hint of sourness. Medium to fullbodied.

dark brown coloured body with a large off white head a fruity malty aroma a fruity malty caramel sweet taste with a fruity bitter finish nice one