Abdij van Roosenberg Dubbel

Bottle. Dark brown with large lively beige head. Usual dubbel character but with a little balsamic vinegar sweetness. Not bad, drinkable but not tummy banana inducing for the style.

Bottle, 8%. Mild fruity aroma, hint of tobacco and sweetness. Clear dark brown colour. Small frothy unstable tan head. The flavour is fruity, nutty and sweet. Tastes OK, but is much too weak for the ABV.

Bottle. Dark brown bit hazy body with a big bubbly off white head. Very malty aroma with some begian spice and ripe sweet fruit like prune and dark cherry. Light malty bit plastic like flavour with some spices. Notes of tobacco and ripe fruit. Medium bodied.

Yellowy beige collar on deep ruby. Clinging lace until the last. Nose wafting enticingly with sticky malt loaf bock notes, tobacco, milk chocolate, prune, overripe mouldering apple, black cherry, hazelnut and locust bean (?), mouth moving through fig and demerara, toasty dark malts, puff of smoke, slight cardboard graininess, distant cigar, liquorice, ending up bittersweet but mostly sweet with a nutty praline linger. Crumb of marzipan. Quite fat and slightly viscous. Just a trace of something chocolate or coffee substitute-like I’m not sure about. Chiccory or liquorice? Desiccated papery old tobacco and malt peatiness. Lactic traces with slight babysick and locust bean notes on the nose now, and resiny evergreen. Alcohol not there. On balance, I like it and its technically good, but lacking a spark of Belgian magic (yeast?). Theres better Dubbels out there...

Bottle, 33 cl. (07.10.’08) Dark brown (reddisch shine) color, small beige head. Aroma yeast, malts, bit spice. Medium body. Taste sweet, fruity, alcohol touch, and low bitterness. Dry end. Not bad.

Bottle. Dark brown color. Pineapple in the aroma. Very sweet flavor with pineapple and a hint of caramel. Simple, just a bit alcoholic beer.

Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy brown coloured ale with an chocolate and caramel taste. And good bitter finish.

Huge, very fine and dense, light-greige head over dark red-amber beer. Chocolate and greenery - but old, drying one, leafy - or drying tobacco leaves, as before processing. Dry taste, with slightly tobacco-ash notes; retronasal sugary, toffee-like sweetness, but, as everything, quite restrained in the good sense of the word. Again I’m reminded of drying tobacco leaves. Better than expected. Medium to well bodied, slick, very slightly viscous. Despite my misgivings about the beernamesfactory responsible, as well as about the specific origins of the name of this beer, I cannot but like it.