Westmalle Dubbel

Brewed by Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Malle, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass

UPDATED: APR 20, 2004 Bottled
Dark brown. Big creamy brown head. Aroma is fruity, a bit sweet, same time malty and alcoholic. Medium-bodied, carbonated, malty. Bitter aftertaste. (7/5/8/4/15)
Re-rate bottled BB 10/2004: Parfumic and complex aroma, smooth carbonated palate. (9/4/8/4/17)

Creamy tan head atop a dark brown body. Aroma is sweet plum/date, some yeast, and definite alcohol. Taste is sweet, dark fruity, and nicely malty. Medium body, with a slight over-carbonation that detracts. Improves significantly as it warms to room temperature. This is a very pleasant beer, but I didn't find much depth.

UPDATED: JUN 11, 2008 Bottled. Deep reddish-brown with a massive, tan belgo-head. Very appealing appearance. Aroma of spices and alcohol with a pronounced malty sweetness and bitterness. Balanced flavor with mostly the same elements. Long warming aftertaste with little bitterness. Rating: 7-5-8-4-17-4.1. (051109)

Bottle, in appropriate glass. It pours a loevely more or less clear body, brown, with a ruby glow, and with a thick, creamy beige head on top. Really firm head, it doesn’t level when I start sipping the beer, but form holes and bumps, and a lovely set of lacings. Dried fruits like raisins and prunes, dark sugars, a little spiced touch, some notes of alcohol and a little caramel. Some faint chocolate notes too? It’s quite effervescent in the mouth, sort of palate cleansing, but still sweet enough not too accomplish that. I could wish for a fuller body, but the flavors, prunes, berries, raisins, dark sugars, some alcohol and a little spicyness, are just lovely. There’s a pleasant bitterness towards the finish, managing to harness the sugars. This is a beer I return to quite frequently, and it goes well all the year, even in the summertime. (080611)

Bottle. Dark brown colour with a medium nice mostly diminishing off-white head. Fruity and sweet aroma with spices and dark fruits. Flavor is well balanced, sweet dark malts, spices, good fruitiness, raisins and prunes with a slight touch of chocolate. Mouthwatering tasty brew.

Bottle at Le Moules in Prague. Unclear brown - offwhite head. Chokolate, raisins, apple, licorice, fruity, malty, roasted, smooth. Too high carbonated.

Very good. Big steady head in white with slight brown undretones. A great brown/red colour. Very sweet and fruity flavour. A bit lacking in the aftertaste, but still great.

UPDATED: FEB 26, 2009 Unclear brown body with a foamy off-white head. The complex aroma has some fresh lemon and fruit; coffee, caramel and chocolate; some earth and oak wood. Dry and caramelly flavour.

A dark brown colour, with a rich malty aroma, and a complex deep rich malt flavour.