Westmalle Dubbel

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

Serve in Trappist glass

Poured a cloudy dark brownish purple color with a large very light tan head with some lace. Sweet aroma of dark fruits, in particular plums. Taste was sweet, fruity and had hints of chocolate and roasted maltiness.

This is a great beer! Here in Belgium it's one of the most common trappists. Very dark brown appearance. Sweet aroma. Hints of caramel and chocolate.

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.

UPDATED: MAR 18, 2006 Pours a cloudy brown in color with an inch-thick velvety head. Very nice aroma of fruity malt, maybe some raisins and a touch of a wooden cask in there. Definite alcohol bite, but a very well-balanced flavor of sweetish malt with a lightly bitter hop finish. Excellent.

Interesting 33 cl collared bottle yields a hazy, medium brown to dark amber ale and a large, rocky tan head with good lacing. Malty nose with a hint of pumpernickel bread. Well-balanced and dry from beginning to end with a fresh finish and a well-disguised, relatively high ABV. Mid-palate flavors of dark cherry, bourbon and raisin. Very, very good.

33 cl bottle from LCBO...properly labeled with all the neccessary warnings. Pours a dark clouded red-brown ale into my Westmalle chalace with a proper 2 finger off-white cap..cap reduces to a proper mat and laces well. Aroma is intoxicating...chocolate, figs, smokey-vanilla bean sweetness and a musty under tone. Silken mouthfeel, creamy-cocoa character...best mouth feel and palate of any beer I’ve tasted! Starts with a warm shower of deeply toasted malts and coffee-cocoa tones which become balanced with some tame but assertive hop bearing...mid palate the mix gets more complex, there are a number of flavor decernments but the one that stands out is that of a chocolate covered smoked apple...finishes wet with more flavors arriving late;earthy dates, toffee-earthiness and smokey fruits...add to this a dangerous drinkability and inherent smoothness and we have one of the world’s best beers. There is little I can say compared to the accolades this beer has had from proper critics....all I know is that I wish I had a consatant access to it...if I did I may lose my love of German dunkler bocks.

Bottled. Some beers just pass under your rating radar, don;’t they? Been loving this for years and just realised I never reviewed it. Rich ruddy brown body. That aroma; lots of fresh yeast, sniff of banana, clove, dry cleaning fluid... that flavour is all creamy fruits steeped in booze, mulled apple schnapps, carbonation keeping it feeling light not cloying. Then the malted fruits linger on the tounge. Been a long time since I was sat in Bar Erasmus cradling a couple of these, but it’s still a great drink. And that was my last bottle of Dubbel so it’s time for a shopping trip, methinks...

From a bottle into my trusty all purpose St. B chalice. Sweet taste, great mouthfeel. Malty and fruity indeed, as well as wine-like. This was so good, full of flavor, easy going down, excellent.