Petrus Dubbel Bruin

Brewed by Bavik-De Brabandere
Style: Belgian Ale
Harelbeke, Belgium

Bottle, pours a dark brown color with a tan head, nice malt notes. Starts off sweet with dark fruits and slight molasses notes, but finishes fairly dry, the body was a bit light than I imagined. Not a bad brew at all. Great lacing as well.

330ml bottle. Brown, tight cappuccino head, stays for ages. Aroma starts sweet, and brown maltiness, some fruits. Hints of smokeyness which develop into burnt rubber (but not in an unpleasant way). Mellow sweet burnt maltiness in the mouth, quite perfumed in some ways, and the burntness is getting bitter at the same time. Yet it’s all incredibly well balanced. Only weakness is that it’s very sweet, but I didn’t find that to actually be negative at all. No trace of alcohol, could be cranked up a bit to make it a bit more serious and wineous.

Brown-red body. A tan on the head. Aroma brings cola, toffee, burnt sugar, malt and some metal. Flavor is strong malty, toffee, burnt sugar and realy sweet.

Bottle. Pours a deep dark brown colour with a nice light brown bubbly and creamy head. Sweet and roasted aroma with dark fruits and alcohol. The flavour is mildly roasted with roasted caramel, spices, brown sugar, alcohol and nuts. Sweet and bitter roasty dry well lastng finish.

Bottle. Clear light to medium brown color with a average, frothy / creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, light yeasty, brown sugar. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (180907)

(Stockholm Beer Festival 2007) Bottle. Amber color, big offwhite head. Malty, nutty aroma, roasted, vinous and some butterscotch notes. Malty, nutty, milky and vinous flavor, smotth and yet powerful. Great body, pleasant malty finish.

(Bottle, Stockholm Beer Festival, 22 Sep 2007) Dark reddish brown colour with frothy, pale brown head. Fruity nose with red berries, dark fruit and hints of brown sugar. Malty, fairly sweet taste with dried fruit, raisins, prunes, brown sugar, caramel and a spicy, sweetish finish. A bit odd: citric notes give it a position somewhere between an oud bruin and a dubbel. Nice mixture.

Unusually for a double this beer has a sharp, citric aroma cometing strongly against the malt. Whilst the flavour has a background of roasted malts the predominant feeling is of sourness. This sweet and sour mismatch reminds me of sour sherbert.