McKenzie Abbey 8

Brewed by McKenzie Brew House
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Glen Mills, Pennsylvania USA

Tap at Glen Mills location. Pours out an attractive reddish brown color with a small off white creamy head. Aroma is of dark fruits, some fig and slight apple and a touch of alcohol. Taste is complex with some very nice notes of dried fruit namely fig, dark cherry and some plums, slight sweet candi sugar, and some sweeter fruity yeast notes also crept n there along with some alcohol notes. Warming boozy finish. Very well done, but I’d like to try it with some age on it to calm down some of the boozy notes.

Very good Abbey. Palate is wonderful on the mouth, and the smell is great! Taste is good and it goes down smooth. A keeper.

(750ml bottle, Dec 2007 vintage) Pours a lightly hazy mahogany body with a medium beige head. Aroma of raisins, dates, brown sugar, banana, and caramel. Flavor of raisins, brown sugar, toasted malt, some cocoa, and plum with a dry, lightly chalky finish.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours a nice amber/red with beige head. Aroma of some bread, raison, some farm house. Flavor is sweet, with some caramel, dark fruit. Mouth feel is medium-full body with high carbonation. Overall, not bad at all, I enjoyed it.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Hazy reddish brown with a decent sized beige head. Aroma is of malt, caramel, fruit, cinnamon, and light raisin. Taste is pretty much the same.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Taste is carmel, butter, scotch and rum cake plus some dark fruits. Acidic and lively mouthfeel.

Bottle marked 12/2007 thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a light brown head that fades over a hazy amber body. Aroma of apple sauce, cinnamon and dark fruits. Taste is brown sugar, molasses and dark fruits. Light carbonation.

2007 bottle. Light amber pour with a thin cream head. Dried fruits, hops and malts on the nose. Easy on the palate with a heavy caramel, fruity flavor.