Corsendonk Pater (Abbey Brown Ale)

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

Pours a hazy deep reddish brown color with a creamy tan head that lasts and some beautiful lacing. Sweet aroma of yeast and fruit. Complex flavors too. Nuts, dark cherries, spices, raisins, chocolate, molasses, and caramel. Seriously good beer.

Appearance: dark brown color with reddish notes. Head with medium size, dense, lasting and with good adherence to glass. Aroma: toast grains smells and an intensive and pleasant fruitiness. Fruits reminiscences of dark-grapes, plums, figs and blackberries. Slightly citric-smell. Spicy aromas like clove and ginger. Yeast, dessert-wine and wood. Flavor: slightly sweet start with caramel touches, from dark-malts. Intensive and varied fruits progress with plums, blackberries, cherries, dark-grapes, raisins and figs reminiscences. Spicy notes similar to ginger, clove and vanilla. Light but persistent smoky and woody touches. Truffle’s reminiscences. Liquory like dessert-wine and cherry-liquor. Complex taste. Palate: medium body and semi-oily texture. Medium carbonated. A complex, pleasant, with own-character, fruity, slightly spicy and balanced beer.

Pours a dark brown with a slight reddish hue. Has a thick and foamy tan head with no real lacing. A lot of visible carbonation. A very strong sour-yeasty nose with sweet brown sugar, caramel, and maybe a touch of molasses malt goodness. A full malt flavor with sourness at the beginning and a nutty caramel middle with a slightly dry finish. Not a whole lot of body, but carbonation leaves a creamy finish.

Bottle from Vinmonopolet. Murky brown, lots of floaties. Nutty, rather sweet malty flavour. Full body, a little bitterness, quite nice.

Bottle. Poured a dark brown body with thin head. aroma is of caramel, yeast, brown sugar. Flavor is the same with a light body that is well carbonated and easy drinking. This one goes down fast.

Bottle, 75cl, corked. Beautiful dark brown pour, against light it becomes more red than brown. Very little head. A sweetish malty aroma with notes of coriander, yeast, fruits, dark chocolate. Full mouthfeel with lots of carbonation. -A sweet taste of roasted malt, apricot, ash, licorice and chocolate. Interestingly the metal packaging my bottle came in says that the beer has 8% alcohol, but the label on the bottle says 7,5% !

Nice med. brown color. A bit more carbonation than I expected but not a drawback at all. Hints of fruit & spice give it a good flavor. Just the right amount of hoppiness makes for a good finish. I like this beer alot more than I thought I would & it is moving up in the ranks.

Bottle. Pours a medium brown with nice tan head. Aroma is yeasty with malt and dark fruits. Flavor is moderately sweet and definitely full of raisin with winelike notes and a full load of maltiness. Finish is clean with a hint of sweetness and spice. Very active and light carbonation offsets a slightly oily body for a good mouthfeel. Very tasty.