Brooklyn Abbey Singel

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Belgian Ale
Brooklyn, New York USA

on draught at tylers in durham, nc. Gold in color with short lived white head. citrus, yeast aroma. yeasty tasting as well. kinda bland, it surprises me that this is a "Brewmasters Reserve"

Draft @ The Belgian Room. Decent looking beer with a somewhat short lived head. Aroma is banana and clove with some doughnut? The citrus cuts nicely into the sweetness. Just a bit too much yeast taste though. Nice & dry.

(draft @ The Old Toad - Rochester, NY) Golden color with a puffy white head. Aroma is light but rather yeasty and spicy with hints of bananas, cloves, and yeast. Flavor is mainly spices at the beginning with a mild sweetness in the middle and then more spice at the end. Not a bad beer, just could use more flavor.

Tap @ Croxley Ales, Rockville Centre, NY. Pours gold with a white lacy head. The aroma consists mostly of earth notes with a little banana and yeast as well. Taste is a wonderful spicy and banana delight in the beginning, but afterward this beer just slams on the brakes and goes nowhere. It left me practically begging for complexity. It was promising, but this one didn’t quite make it.

draft: golden yellow with some lacing and retention, but not much. Aroma is grass, bread, banana, light spicing. Medium to light body. Solid but a little light.

Draught at ABF on 6/16/07
Chill-hazed pineapple-golden body is topped by a small, but sustained white head. Lacing is marginal.
A hint of banana and nectarine perks up in the nose, but is smoothed out by rather well-attenuated malts, giving a doughy, light cracker-like nose with some vanilla and more ester activity on the finish (bubble gum). Soft, leafy hops are mostly dusty, though there is a dollop of juicy, green grass. The esters arent too overbearing, there are no fusels, little/no phenols and the yeast is quite soft and mostly conditioned out. Medium strength of aroma overall. Though the malt is rather straightforward, the style does not demand otherwise.
Sweet bubble gum, bananas dipped in sugar and a pinch of orange, brought in on a surprisingly supple body, open up the flavor, but things quickly dry out, some seltzer-like and white bread/dough notes taking care of that. It never goes too far attenuated, however, and remains amicably sweet (vanilla, cream, light honey dough) until the finish. It isnt too far a stretch to see a brewer like Vinnie Cilurzo taking this mold and making Redemption with it. But this is a seriously dumbed-down (though still mostly flawless) rendition. I say mostly flawless because there is still a bit too much crude banana and bubble gum, though my threshholds are very low for that sort of thing in this style. But the conditioning is great, no tacky, heavily doughy yeast feel to the texture or flavor. Pleasant, dusty, lightly grassy hoppiness lingers.

[391-20070701] Tap @ Coles (Buffalo, NY). Some banana and grainy hops aroma. Golden amber body with a quick white head. Light lemon and grainy wheat flavour with a nice aftertaste. Medium body. Quite a nice blend.

On tap at Capital Ale House - Downtown. Clear golden body with a small creamy off-white head. Light floral hops aroma with hints of sugar. Light banana and floral hops with a touch o sugar. Fairly light for a belgian.