Corsendonk Pater (Abbey Brown Ale)

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

Bottle (in NZ). Aroma’s got everything, cloves, spice, fruit, chocolate, raisins. And the flavour doesn’t disappoint either, though perhaps there is a little bit of harshness on the palate.

Brown pour ruby hue creamy off white head lacing ... fruit and malty aroma ... taste of dark fruits raisins caramel chocolate little roasted malt and some light spice ..... finishes with a slight bitterness .... alcohol hidden well ... very clean and very tasty ... sessionable and a keeper

Pours a dark amber color with a medium head that goes away fairly fast. Aroma and taste is fruity with some malts. The taste is not very complex but it does have a nice body with a mild bitter aftertaste. I think this is a solid ale... for me it is not one of the great beers but have always enjoyed the ones I’ve had.

I felt like this one was pretty bland in the taste department. Pours a beautiful brown with a somewhat dark head and smells wonderful of tangy brett. But the brett bites hard into the tongue on the initial taste but fades and doesn’t leave much of an impression after swallowing. It doesn’t stay around. Decent and smells fantastically tangy. Nice one, but not for the price.

Bottle. Poured a clear cooper amber with a thick off-white head. Aroma was full of yeast and light fruit notes, particularly apples. Flavor has bit of smokiness as well as some light fruit again and yeast notes.

pours out clear burnt brown with a tall fizzy lumpy beige head. the body is a deep dark amber in the light bit it is mainly a light brown all around. the aromas are sweet and pleseant. i can sense dull licorise, fennel, chives, some alcohol, apples, and raisins. it is medium to almost full body with a substantial amount of carbonation and a grainy bubbly mouthfeel. it is a sour bitter at first then it opens up to smokey wood, onion, bitter fruit, some yeast, pale roasted malts, and apricot. it finishes very dry, and aftertaste is pretty mellow but lingers on for a little while. not bad for a dubbel but definatley not my favorite.

Pours a rich purple with a medium-sized cream-coloured head. It has a fruity aroma of hops and berries. It tastes of burnt malt, hops and fresh berries. It has a slightly thin mouthfeel, although not extremely thin. Overall, a pretty good beer, although the aroma and appearance are a notch above the taste of the beer itself.

Bottle at Union Jack’s poured into a Corsendonk Trappist glass (which I bought for $3.00) produced a dark brown body and medium light brown head that was creamy and long lasting. Taste was dominated with spices and dark fruits. The complexity of flavors and aroma increased as the ale warmed. Another very enjoyable Belgium ale.