 hopscotch (4588), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
Dec 12, 2007
Bottle… Clear amber ale with orange highlights and a mid-sized, creamy, off-white head. Good retention. Toffee, caramel, praline nose with lesser notes of ginger, cinnamon, and earthy hops… with a whisper of diacetyl. Medium caramel sweetness with mild earthy bitterness and winter spiciness. Medium to full-bodied with a prickly mouthfeel. Sweet, minerally finish. Good thing I don’t rate to style. Not even remotely dubbel-like, other than the sweetness. All that aside, probably a bit underrated.
brianprentiss (397), Mountain View, California, USA
Oct 11, 2008 Smells like a cheap beer, and certainly not a double, but if it were classified some other way maybe people wouldn’t be so hard on it...Expectations! But, not a bad beer; I enjoyed it.
jcdsmack (46), Henderson, Nevada, USA
Sep 25, 2008 Not a bad beer, I wouldn’t classify it as a belgian abbey. More like a special amber ale I guess you could compare it to Fat Tire. Let’s face it it’s 5 1/2 % ABV that’s not a dubbel. For a mass produced ale it’s drinkable.
nqualls (422), Tennessee, USA
Sep 19, 2008 Bottle. Poured a cloudy amber with a small tan head. Aroma of nutmeg and cinnamon. Flavor reflects the aroma. Decent but not great.
donrajin (233), Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA
Sep 19, 2008 Not a bad beer, but a far cry from a dubbel. Need’s a lot more depth and complexity to be called a dubbel. Again, not bad, but a little thin.
KawaBomber (149), New Jersey, USA
Aug 4, 2008 12oz Bottle ’07: Clear amber w/ a small off-white head. Some slight candy sugar in the aroma, not much else. Flavor is sweet malts. Nothing exciting here...time to move along.
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