Duvel Groen

Brewed by Brouwerij Moortgat
Style: Belgian Ale
Breendonk-Puurs, Belgium

From the tap poured golden color with a fair amount of head. Nice sweet malty flavor with a quick finish.

5/27/09 notes: on tap, Monk’s Café in Philly. Pours clear, sparkling gold with a fluffy white head; classic Belgian golden ale. Aroma has soft sweet fruit, grain, and yeast. The palate is crisp with a medium-length, prickly finish. Flavors present are quite a bit lighter than regular Duvel, but interesting in and of themselves because of a nice spritzy lemon-lime flavor that demands this beer be quaffed, not sipped slowly. I enjoyed this!

On tap at Monk’s in Philly, JCB was kind enough to let me sample his brew, but only if I backwashed as much as possible. Clear gold with a white head. Yeasty nose, a bit of sweet caramel. Flavor is much the same. Rather dry finish, pretty light and refreshing.

On tap at Monk’s Cafe, Philthy. Pale golden pour, only slightly hazy, which surprised given the liveliness of the "real" Duvel. The aroma was pert and yeasty, almost exclusively so, and this impression was substantiated in the flavor too. The finish was extremely dry, recalling Dupont pretty vividly. Nice mouthfeel, pleasant beer.

250 ml bottle from Belgium Beers, Antwerp. Huge, shiny white head slowly settling upon a crystal clear, pale golden colored body. Spiced, dry malt aroma. Nice scent of Belgo-yeast; bubblegum, fruit-candy and perfume. Taste is fairly sweet and wheaty, with a kind of sourness in the backbone. Mildly spiced and very mildly hopped. Yeasty, with a noticable fruitiness underneath. Healthy body, but has a quite unattractive soapy mouthfeel. A quite good one, but the taste of it, does not live up to the promising aroma.

The Duvel Green, on-tap at The Ginger Man. Belgian yeast aroma. Pale colour with soapy head. Good yeast

Bottle. The aroma is light sour, a little bit alcoholic and malty, also some yeast. The white creamy medium large head has a normal duration, the body is clear and yellow. The taste is nice bitter and light sour, medium strong with a long duration. The texture is dry, with a lively carbonation and medium strong.

Draught at TJ’s: Aroma of grains, malts, hops, and lager yeast. Poured pale yellow/gold in color with a large, creamy, pillowy head that lasted throughout. Really a great looking head. Clear. Sparkling. Small lacing. Flavor is lightly sweet and light to medium bitter. Tastes of grass, hops, pale malts, and light yeast. Light to medium body. Dry, thin texture. Average carbonation. Dry, malty, light to medium bitter hop finish.