tronraner (1905), Maryville, Tennessee, USA Feb 3, 2009 750 mL bottle. Pours hazy dark red with proportional beige head. The aroma is toffee, raisin, clove, waffles. The flavor has a nice yeasty raisinbread quality that I find quite appealing, then some earthy spices and faint dark fruit notes. There’s a distant smoky note and some wooden bitterness toward the finish, which is refreshingly dry. Pretty good stuff, I’ll have no problem polishing off the bottle. berkshirejohn (1759), Bracknell, Berkshire, England Jan 30, 2009 Draught at a Belgian bar near Gare d’Nord, Paris. Reddish brown with a rapidly fading off-white head; fruity malts and a rounded peaty finish, but otherwise rather ordinary. lithy (1600), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Jan 26, 2009 Best by end of 2011. Slight foamer leaves a cherry red body with three fingers of cream colored head. Settles quickly. Aroma is yeasty and slight alcohol burn. Some smoky malt, chocolate and caramel sweetness. Taste is more sweet malts, caramel and a bit of peat but still very Belgian with the yeasty spices. DrDavid (957), Johnson, Vermont, USA Jan 18, 2009 Bottle. Musty and earthy malt aroma. Reddish brown body, creamy light tan head. Malty semi-sweet flavor, with honey and some spices and fruitiness. Mild pleasant finish. Subtle, not over-powering. Very nice. hirigalzkar (547), Stockholm, Sweden Jan 18, 2009 Bottle. Redbrown color. Smells berries, raisin and hops. Strange fruity taste. The body of this beer is a little thin. 00cobraR (1096), Greensboro, North Carolina, USA Jan 17, 2009 A little strange for me. i really like scotch ales, this one just didnt quite do it for me. pours out a darker brown color with a decent head. aroma was sweet, malty with yeasty note to it. flavor was rather sweet with a strange after taste. ryanknock (150), San Francisco, California, USA Jan 15, 2009 Very malty, roasty and nutty. Not as complex and fruity as many Dubbels-Brown ales, but smooth, a scotch ale with a Belgian interpretation, with slight spicy notes, including vanilla and cinnamon., and a rather dry finish for the sweetness it carries. Miksu (2187), Jyväskylä, Finland Jan 15, 2009 0.75 l bottle at Akkurat, Stockholm. Hazy reddish brown color. Sweet bready, malty and toffeish aroma with licorice. Thick sweet flavor with bread, toffee, caramel, pepper, coriander, licorice and chocolate.
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