La Caracole Brune

Formerly brewed at La Caracole
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Falmignoul, Belgium

Bottle at Kulminator - thanks to the american frinds for the night !!! Cloudy brown - offwhite head. Fruity, berries, roasted, malty sweetness, medium sweetness, dusty, a bit spidersweb. Oldness. A bit boring.

This is a good beer, but I do not feel like I got a good value for what I had to pay to get it. It was sweeter than I expected, and there really wasn’t the head or lace I have come to expect of the Belgians. I am certain it would be better on draft or fresh from the brewery.

(Bottle 75 cl) Light brown beer with a small, collapsing head. Classical Dubbel with a refreshing dryness to it with some underlying and very pronounced chocolate-notes. Yummy - I prefer my Dubbels not too sweet, and this is perfect in that sense. 270997

Dark like brown sugar. No real head. Tasted like sweet caramel apples dumped in molasses and soaked in whiskey.

brown amber colour. hazy and translucent. thin short lived head. nose of malts and caramel. sweet taste with only a hinbt of banana and figs little or no hops this was labelled la caracole artisanal belgian brown ale at 9%abv.

This brew proves that just because it’s Belgian it’s not necessarily good. The aroma is sweet, with sugar at every turn. The head is normal, the color and cloudiness is nice, but that’s about all I can say that’s good, as I move to the flavor. Wow, I can’t believe it’s this sickly sweet, and hides the alcohol poorly at that. It smells and tastes a bit like the peculiar smell of almost rotting Concord grapes; y’know the big black ones? The finish is chalky, a full-mouth feeling of having been assaulted in a not very nice way.

Simple sweetly cloying molasses/bread malt aroma, with hints of grapefruit and (when swirled) bananas. Quickly and completely diminishing head on a murky reddish-brown liquid. A bit more than medium body, cloyingly and sticky sweet, slightly acidic, sweet finish with some remaining acidity. Flavor is molasses/syrup and alcohol, with a hint of grapefruit. This is embarrassing for Belgium...oppressively sticky and syrupy, one-dimensional (malt malt malt), and not very clean tasting. Note: my bottle was simply named ’Caracole’ as a brown ale with 9% ABV, so it may be a new or different version of the original 7.2% brown ale shown here.