Abdij van Roosenberg Dubbel

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Ertvelde, Belgium

Dark brown coloured beer. Average white head. Sweet fruity aroma a bit malty. Malty and sour sprankling palate. Good one.

Bottle. Dark brown with a cream head. Aromas are winter fruit with some chocolate. Herbal notes. Quite dry. Flavours are chocolate with berries and yeast. Decent.

Dark brown with a huge cream head. Yeasty, ashy aroma that conceals some gentle sweet fruitiness. Sweet honeyed malt taste is rather obscured by the metallic prickle of the carbonation, which I suppose also conceals the alcohol. Not an exciting finish.

Dark brownish colour. Malty aroma. Too sweet and carbonated to be real nice. Too bad.

Dark brown color, medium brown head. Weak aroma, some fruit, malty. Taste of malts and sweetness. Heavy on the stomach, probably because of the high carbonation. I like my double to be creamy instead of carbonating.

Aroma of apples and caramel malts. Hazy, brown coloured with a medium brown head. Taste is sweet and quite carbonated. Probably there is something nice in this beer, but overcarbonation hides it.

best before 31/7/04 - so getting long in the tooth. a very interesting beer. "dubbel" leads me to expect a westmalle dubbel type thing but this is more like goudenband than anything else. murky brown with a very dense, creamy cover of foam. smells of melanoidins, some herbal hops, caramel, and a good helping of some wild raspberry-ester yeastiness. in the mouth some warm caramelly sweetness rolls out into a gentle, leathery, woody tartness. not sour like a cantillon, or vinegary like a duchesse, but definitely involving some wild stuff. very moreish and drinkable for an 8%er, still, on the restrained side intensity-wise.

Bottled. Pours amber with a big white head. Aroma is sweet fruity. Taste is sweet fruity