 Oakes (6819), Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Apr 20, 2007
Bright reddish-brown colour...looks nice. Sort of a light aroma with vague caramel, molasses and spent grains. Thin, hollow and gutless nuts/caramel taste. Sweet, bland and poorly executed. Malt flavours are too thin and simplistic. This yeast is useless. Gets worse as the glass goes, too.
Beershine (1207), Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Nov 1, 2007 Quite a disappointing brew from Phillips, but I don’t like the blonde Surley much either. Way too sweet and cloying both in nose and palate. Not much in the looks department either, with nary a head to be found. Sticky palate.
pootzboy (855), Calgary/ Kitchener, Alberta, Canada
Jun 18, 2007 Bottle:
Rather clear red-cola color with a very light cap that does not last long.
Faint nose: wisps of dark candi sugar, caramel malts...very faint.
Flavor profile...seems a tad sweet with the Candi sugar and thin on malts, hops are non existant...the yeast does produce some nutty tastes that offset the smokey molasses but overal this is a kind of thin uneventful dubbel.
If you were expecting Bernardus Pater you will miss the value of this ale...it is a very approachable dubble for people who are not really used to the Belgians styles ...kind of like Leffe...it serves a purpose as a gateway dubbel but that’s about all.
BeerPrince (1701), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 3, 2007 Darker mudy brown with no head. Sugary and syrupy flavour with minimal nose. Perhaps it was off but something didn’t seem right.
CapFlu (3254), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Apr 19, 2007 (660ml bottle) Purchased at the Strath in Victoria for $4.95. Deep ruby body with a creamy tan head. Nose of roasted coffee grounds and a minor egg aroma. Roasted malt mixed sour milk. One of my least favourite Phillips brews.
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