Corsendonk Pater (Abbey Brown Ale)

Brewed by Du Bocq
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Purnode-Yvoir, Belgium

Bottle, great beer. malt and fruit on the nose. some tart fruit and malt on the nose. Certainly a really good damn beer.

Tastes of sweet, dry malt and a touch of sourness as others have pointed out. Good beer, very drinkable, but there’s nothing remarkable about it; a typical dubble.

Bottle. Pours a reddish brown colour with an off-white head. The aroma is malty with some notes of berries. The flavour is also malty with some malty notes and has a tartness to it. Thought that I would be more impressed by this beer...

Poured a completely full glass of brown foam, which slowly condenses into a syrupy brown color. Aroma of light yeastiness and some sour wood notes, but hard to coax out. Flavor is slightly sour brown malts with hints of oak. Uncomplex and lacks the depth one would desire of a Belgian brew. Lackluster for a dubbel. Rerated 11/5/09: Wood-aged sour-tinged malitness seems better developed than I recall. Intriguing melanoiding and dusty malt complexity with deep, haunting, dark fruit notes.

Bottle. Dark brown colour, big head. Aroma of caramel, brown sugar, some dark fruits, roasted malts. Flavours are the same, very soft and subtle, well balanced. Good dubbel.

750 ml bottle. Poured a very pretty dark brown with a fluffy, slightly off-white head. Slightly fruity aroma, with caramel and just a whiff of banana. Tastes of candi sugar, plums, raisins with a bit of chocolate. Slight taste of alcohol. Light on the palate. Another very good Belgian.

Splendid beer. Pours a lovely dark brown. Nice head. Very malty aroma, with a hint of raisins. Complicated taste; it kind of goes through a series of raisin-plum, coffee, bready, coffee, spicy. Excellent beer, especially if you like dubbels.

Poured a nice brown with a huge head. Very pleasant aroma of malt and chocolate. Nice palate - taste is complicated - lots of flavors at work including raisin, malt, chocolate, coffee.