UPDATED: DEC 31, 2022 Bottle shared at Colin's place. Many thanks to Leighton for this one. A mostly clear chestnut brown coloured pour with a halo of beige, aroma is semi sweet rich fruit cake, raisin, some age. Flavour is composed of semi sweet. Nutty malts, fruit cake, mint, mellow booze, fruit loaf, white grape. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, mellow carbonation. Held up well.

UPDATED: DEC 26, 2022 Bottle. Pours dark brown. Biscuit, spice, heavy spice, plenty of Belgian yeast stuff. Medium body if a bit overcarbed. Decent.

UPDATED: DEC 4, 2022 35,5cl Bottle @ Peculier Pub, New York, NY, USA. Dark brown colour with a thin white head. Aroma is malt, yeast, dried fruits, slightly spicy. Taste is malt, caramel, yeast, prunes, spices, hints of chocolate. Medium body, average carbonation.

UPDATED: AUG 26, 2021 12 oz bottle. Smells of cloves, banana, orange, caramel, complex. Dark brown in color. Tastes sweet. Getting hints of caramel, toffee, banana, chocolate. Finish is sweet but not sticky. Booze warms a little but mixes in well. This would be great in the winter sitting by a fire.

UPDATED: APR 18, 2021 Old rating from 2016 - 355ml bottle brought back from NYC. Poured at home in Jersey, it's brown with a off white head. Aromas & tastes of plums, raisins, cranberry, caramel, spice, chocolate & yeast. Medium body. Dry slightly sweet finish

UPDATED: APR 3, 2021 Dark amber/brown color; Medium slightly creamy body; Aroma of sweet malt, yeast, dark fruit, & spice; Flavor of slight sweet malt, yeast, caramel, dark fruit (notably plums), raisons, some chocolate, and spice; Dry finish; Nicely balanced; Solid dubbel.

UPDATED: AUG 6, 2020 Adding in my 300 Beers To Try ticks because I want to see how they impact my stats and some of them I will never see again. Will however re-rate them when practical. Beers of Europe?

UPDATED: MAR 16, 2020 Pours hazy reddish brown with a thick beige head. Nose is malt and apple cider. Sweet but not too sweet, pleasingly medium bitterness, light sour. I'm getting the licorice and chocolate along with apples, malt, toffee, and yeast.

UPDATED: FEB 18, 2020 12oz bottle at Peculier Pub, New York on 04/04/2008. Quite possibly the best American dubbel I’ve ever had. Just completely spot on; this would be a fantastic example even in Belgium.

UPDATED: JAN 19, 2020 The aroma is a little sweet, honey. Pours dark reddish brown with fully diminishing light tan head. The taste is a medium bittersweet. The body is medium, the texture creamy, the carbonation average. Very good beer, this 11 years old and still is holding up well.