Boaks Two Blind Monks

Boaks
Brewed at High Point Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Pompton Lakes, New Jersey USA

12oz bottle courtesy of ib4lb. Pours a hazy dark brown color with huge visible particulates and one finger tan head that settles slowly. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of ripe dark fruit, caramel, yeast, bread, candy sugar, molasses, hints of honey and spice. Flavor is sweet and malty with some metallic funk, spice, caramel, brown sugar, molasses, chocolate, hints of ripe dark fruit. Medium body with a malty and spicy finish.

Bottle (12 oz). Pours deep brownsih ruby with off-white head and a lot of floaties. Nose is rock sugary malt, fruit, yeasty spices. Tastes caramel malty up front, with some raisiny fruit, yeasty spice, and finishing hops. Decent complexity.

I must have gotten a good bottle joe because this beer was nice... sweet and spiced appropriately yet in moderation with the perfect refreshing yet provacative abv. almost on the light side so refreshing and burnt orange in color my nutella and sesame bread from espositos on 9th av nyc melded perfectly with this brew. nice abbey aroma. a winner with its own light hhhmm almond essence.

Bottle courtesy of yobdoog. Thanks! Pours amber with short lived wispy head. Smell is fruity, gummy and caramel malts and a touch of belgian yeast. Taste is fruity, nutty, and lightly of caramelized raisins. Faint yeast flavor, which I like and a bit light and crisp. Almost refreshing, I’d say. Alcohol is pretty well hidden, and the flavor is slightly watery, which is probably why I prefer this to any other dubbels I can think of. Nice beer.

Deep brown ruby-tinted beer. White, fast fading head. Aroma is lightly malty wiht a bit of soft spiciness. There is a touch of orange peel as well as a lot of green apple acetaldehyde. Flavour is fairly sour with a pronounced tartness that I can really say I enjoy. There is a bit of light brown sugar and a touch of yeasty spice, but nothing terribly complex. Lightly garbage smelling and quite unpleasant rotten finish. This stuff is a damn mess.

This beer although decent is not in league with other dubbels. Flavor pales in comparison to true belgians and similar craft beers.

I liked this beer. It had a really nice smoothness that made it very easy to drink. Unlike some Beligains I’ve had this beer was more about the malt then the yeast flavor. It was a real tasty brew.

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of raisins, brown sugar, light dark ripe fruits, light burn caramel, plums, alcohol, and a bit of nuts. Poured copper/amber/orange in color with a small off-white head that lasted throughout as a film on top of the beer. Cloudy. Not sparkling. Full of small, medium, and large-sized particles throughout. Flavor is lightly sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of malts, cocoa, raisin, resin, tobacco, caramel, and light roasting. Medium body. Average texture. Average carbonation. Sweet, malty, nutty finish is on the dry side.