Grimbergen Double (Dubbel)

Brewed by Brasserie Union (Alken-Maes / Heineken)
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Jumet, Belgium

Color is a deep dark ruby with good carbonation and a loose off white head. Aroma is a sugary sweet toasted caramel scent. Taste is sweet and metallic. Starting with a lighter medium body it goes down sweet with a thin feel. Finish comes in sweet with a candy like sugar taste and a hint of raisin then just a hint of bitterness in the end. After taste is more candy sweetness. Overall its just way too sweet and has no Belgian yeast or fruit esters. Its just a thin,sweet Brown not a Dubble.

Bottle- Amber brown pour with a small head which muddled out. Grainy with some sweet stale sourness. Thin and a little yeast bitterness that just didn’t appeal to me, not great.

Really cool dubble Ale.Big biege above glowing ruby. Nice. I found this eazy to sink because its mellow and unassuming.Lots of chocolate and belgian candy sugar ?Creamy ,toffee and rich.Like a ABBT/Q light.

Poured a deep reddish brown, and gave a quite thick and rich head. Although it tasted very rich and fll flat on the palate. I would drink this again but as an after dinner beverage or as a dessert beer.

Bottle (Grimbergen Cuvée Ambrée Dubbel, 6.5% brewed "for" or by Kronenbourg), courtesy of and shared with ogivlado (thanks!). Poured a nice dark red-brown body. Medium-big tan head that went away at a medium pace. Sweet malty nose, some dust in the background. The taste is sweet and simple, but fine. A tasty fruity maltiness, carrying notes of apples and jam, dark malts. To sum it up, a simple, tasty Belgian that I wouldn’t mind having again.

Draft. Average size head, fizzy and light brown that reduces itself to a pool of bubbles. The body is clear and dark brown. Aroma is sweet with notes of caramel, prune, toasted grain and candy sugar. Some light mustiness. The flavor is moderately to heavily sweet and lightly bitter. The finish is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. Thin to medium body, watery texture and lively carbonation. Little complexity and thinner than better dubbels.

Carmel color with a tight white head. My nose is stuffed a bit so can’t get a good take on the aroma, but it has a nice smooth sweet flavor. A nice double.

Brown pour with small tan head. Darker fruits, raisins and sweet malts on the nose. Flavor is the same with bready notes and a bit of sour at the end.