Brooklyn Abbey Singel

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

(Draught) Pours a hazy yellow body with a medium white head. Aroma of coriander, orange peel, pear, apple, clove, and banana. Flavor of light citrus, banana, cracker, coriander, and spicy yeast.

Tap at the Gate. Pale golden beer with a thin white head. Light spicy yeast nose with a touc of sulfur and apple/pear fruitiness over a crisp pilsner malt base. Very light bodied and crackery with a hint of acidity. Some light white grapes are suggested as well. Earthy bitterness on the back of the palate. Lingering fruit throughout. Quite a refreshing supper beer. Crisp and tasty with a fairly expressive yeast.

Draft. Pours hazy medium gold with off-white head. Nose is heavy citrus, some funky yeast, and malt. Tastes very citric, crisp, spicy yeasty, with a lemony limey overtone that stays rather dry, with solid malt accompaniment. This one was very good.

Yeasty pale, a case where Saaz hops worked. Yeast and the hops in the aroma No lace, Active carbonation. Medium mouthfeel like a Golden except lighter. Blind taste would say this was brewed in Belgium. Good for the style. On-tap at the Old toad.

Draft at Coles in Buffalo. Coppery body with a small white head. Spicy flavour, with sweet malt underpinnings, and light alcohol presence. (7+)Aroma is similar, with the characteristics a bit more muted. Average to medium palate. (3+) Solid Belgian style brew. Alcohol comes out a bit more in the finish, with light toasty malt notes.

Draft. Pours a golden color with a mostly white head. Aroma is floral hops, citrus, and some spicy yeast. A good flavor of lemon lingers. A good choice.

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.

BBF 07. I thought i had this years ago at gingerman, but I guess I never rated it. Pours a mostly clear with a slight protein chill haze which clears as it warmed. Nice fluffy tight pure whtie hea and good lace. Aroma is doughy fresh pils malt, light cracker and some cereal, with a nice lemony citrus hint formt he yeast- more belgian yeast with some coriander and lemongrass hints. More doughy yeas tand pils malts, with a refreshing hoppy earthy zing, light citrus, lots of yeasty phenols clove and some vanilla. Finsihes clean aand refreshing. Great belgain ale. Has some chouffe and westmalle yeast characteristics which was a nice mix.