Ølfabrikken Abbey Ale

Formerly brewed at Bryggeriet Ølfabrikken (Gourmetbryggeriet)
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Roskilde, Denmark

Lasting mocha head under a ruby tinged brown body. Malty spicy aroma. Sweet malt palate with perhaps some ginger-like spice. Smooth, full-bodied.

Aroma is dark fruit raison, plum and some caramel. Mouthfeel is medium carbonation is there but gets you on the finish. A little to much alcohol in the finish is what brings this down. I would like to see a little more depth in the flavor maybe a little thicker on the palate. This isn’t unusual for the style, heavy malt and sweetness but a little too boozy.

[1518-20080711] 1pt9.4floz bottle. Grainy barrel water aroma has hints of malted salted fish. Murky, dark brown amber body with a quick foamy light tan head and lots of white floaties. Fairly boozy grainy heavy malt flavour. Medium body. Interesting but super boozy.
(c/o blankboy, w/ him, GregClow, HogTownHarry, jerc, tupalev)

750 ml, bottled Nov 2006. Large head settles to a lasting inch of meringue atop the deep garnet body. Spicy dark fruit, clove, cheap merlot and slight wheat in the aroma. Flavor is clove, bubblegum, alcohol and artificial cinnamon. Near-medium body is way too carbonated, but nicely dry and tingly with alcohol. Seems like a cross between a dubbel and a tripel that is way too wine-like and medicinal for the abv. Pretty disappointing. Good riddance to this one.

My Bottle (750ml) shared with HogTownHarry, GregClow, jerc, mabel & tupalev. Pours a clear deep ruby-brown with an average size lasting foamy off-white head. Aroma’s sweet and sugary along with fruit, caramel malt and alcohol. Flavour’s also sweet and sugary along with some fruity hops, yeast, caramel malt and alcohol. Medium bodied. In the end it’s somewhat too sweet for me but overall it’s enjoyable enough.

Bottle, bottled 11/30/2006. Pours a cloudy brown with a huge thick light tan head. Aroma of light fruits (apple, pear), and too many spices to name. Flavor is quite spicy (coriander, clove) along with light and dark fruits (prune, raisin). Some alcohol. A little soda-like quality to it. This beer reminds me a lot of Corsendonk Christmas Ale. It seems a little past its prime and I’m also not sure what makes this a dubbel as opposed to a Belgian strong ale. It was alright but nothing special.

Bottle, bottled 11/30/06. Aroma of banana, fig, clove, other spices (I guess it’s the coriander, but it seemed more like cinnamon to me), sweet crab apple, and above all rich, sweet malt. Flavor has that robust, sweet malt with touches of spice bitterness, especially at the finish. No question this is a nice beer, but I generally prefer all my beers fresh, and this is no exception. Became in large part just a bunch of malt to me that you can get by aging any of a great number of brews from all sorts of styles. Since this retired beer ain’t getting any younger, won’t seek it out again.

Bottle purchased at Beertopia in Omaha, NE. Pours a cloudy reddish-brown with a creamy beige head that reduces to a thin ring clinging to the edge of the glass. The aroma is of raisins, cinnamon and sweet malt. On the light side of medium-bodied the palate features fine, assertive carbonation and a fairly clean, sweet finish. The flavor follows the nose with a nice sweet/spicy aftertaste lingering beyond the swallow. This is a fairly nice dubbel.