Midnight Sun La Mâitresse du Moine

Brewed by Midnight Sun Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Anchorage, Alaska USA

From bottle #10 at sk8vikings American blind tasting. Pours dark brown with chocolate brown head. Mild fruity aroma, a bit strawberry like and roasted caramel malt. Flavour is sweet ad light spiced. Smooth fruity note. Light hoppy towards the finish. Light and smooth sweet and caramelish into the far finish. Light alcohol presence into the far finish.

#10 Bottle [Sk8viking great American blind tasting] Average creamy beige head that mostly lasted. Good display of lacework. Pitch black color. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee. Over the palate came burned malt, hint of metallic notes and bitter chocolate. Medium to full bodied with a soft carbonation and mild alcoholic texture. Moderated bitter flavor and light sweetness. Lingering burned bitter finish. 7 / 3 / 7 / 3 / 15 = 3.5

Black with a thick creamy tan head. Aromas are of toast and fruit jelly with a slight spiciness. Taste is sweet and fruity.

Bottle. Pours dark with nice aroma. Deep roast and yeast flavors. Nice beer.

From a 22oz Bottle. Pours a dark brown, cola color, mostly transparent, with a thick froth of fizzy tan head. Intriguing aromas of smoke, chocolate, coffee, and soapy yeast esters. As it warms, the smoke aroma fades substantially. Medium light bodied, heavily carbonated mouthfeel with a soft, slick texture. Flavors of chocolate and woody yeast characters. More smoke starts to come out mid-palate, along with hints of molasses. Brazil nuts, tobacco, and prune. There are a lot of different flavors going on, but they are all quite tasty. Stylistically, it’s not really a dubbel, but don’t let that interfere with your enjoyment; it’s not interrupting mine.

Loved this beer. Bottle from Liquid Solutions. Pours dark brown/black with thick rocky sustained head. Aroma of sweet malts and sugar, with flavor to match.

22 oz bottle. Dark, dark pour--almost black--with beautiful light tan head. A lovely looking beer, and nice lacing as it’s consumed. My immediate reaction was that this didn’t strike me as a dubbel (as it’ listed here). Sweet malty nose; smells like the burnt sugar in peanut brittle. First taste had some roasty barley and creamy notes, making me think of a strong porter or stout, but then the Belgian yeast and candied sugar made its presence known, hitting with some notes of malt, cotton-candy, burnt sugar, and stewed fruits. Some bitter chocolate near the end and a surprisingly dry finish. A lot going on here... this is a very good beer.

22 oz. bottle. Pours a very dark brown, not quite black, that allows no light to pass through when held against the sun. Large, fairly dense, tan head that lasted nearly to the end and heavily coated the glass with each sip. Very pleasant aroma of yeast, malt, brown sugar, just a bit of prunes, and a bit of alcohol. The flavor is very simlar with yeast, malt, and brown sugar up front followed by some mild alcohol heat and some equally mild bitterness. Effervescent and medium bodied. Very enjoyable.