Abita Abbey Ale

Brewed by Abita Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Covington, Louisiana USA

First the executive summary: Take a typical Abby Dubbel, and add a woody taste, *WAY* up front to the tastes typically present in a dubbel, and you’ve got this beer. Now, the full review: Poured a cloudy maroon color with a medium sized head with lots of persistence. Nose of plums, prunes, roasted malts, and wood. Wood was way out front in the taste, apparently picked up from the wooden cask in which the beer was conditioned, with notes of dark fruit, typical of a dubbel, behind the woody taste. Short, understated bitter hop finish. This was an interesting American/Louisiana twist on an abby dubbel, and was really quite good! Abita doesn’t publish the ABV but it’s probably high; two pints of this stuff kicked me in the ass.

22oz bottle. Hazy orange copper color, light brown soapy head. fruity aroma of dates, clove. fruity flavor has a nice rich malt character, clove, sweet raisins. Lots of sugars. Alcohol is very well hidden.

This is a delicious dark ale with a creamy beige head, nutty aroma, and dark amber and somewhat cloudy appearance. The taste is very bready and caramel notes are present. It has a heavy mouth feel, but no alcohol taste was detected. It is very strong, however, so one is warned. Should pair well with spicy foods or even better as simply a stand-alone beer. RJT

Nice color, dark amber with a little brown. Aroma is a little fruity with caramel in there. Has flavors of bread and caramel. A very nice beer. Smooth and relaxing.

Bottle, courtesy kiefdog. Brownish copper pour, big frothy marshmallow head, lots of lacing. Very spicy nose, with banana and big on clove, yummy cinnamon. Flavor is very spicy, with some chocolate, banana and clove, and other rich fruits. Nice, balanced, very rich and delicious. Wanted to hate it like everyone else, but I couldn’t.

Sampled from the bottle: Pours a dark but translucent copper colour with a very large beige head. Aroma is caramel, sweet notes and biscuit malts. Taste is rich and semi sweet and really toasty. Mouthfeel is super pleasent, just the right amount of carbonation making this beer creamy and soft all around. Easily my favourite from Abita. If you spot this beer, pick it up!"

The first pour is a clear, very dark cherry wood stain topped by a cream-colored, very dense head that lingers. Banana bread and spicy alcohol on the nose, a little bit of dried fruit. Foamy mouthfeel from the head and relatively high carbonation level.

Most have had a bad bottle the first time. A very malty aroma with a lot of malt and caramel. The flavor is dominated by the caramel but is pretty good. Original score 7,1,2,1,4 for a 1.5 This score is only this high because of a fairly intriguing, malty water aroma. It’s sour with some fruit tones but not good. I pretty much couldn’t even stand my two ounce sample. Bad.