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.