Sly Fox Abbey Dubbel

Brewed by Sly Fox Brewhouse
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Royersford and Phoenixville, Pennsylvania USA

pours dark gold/brown with a thin off-white head. aroma of yeast, caramel, light fruit, spice. flavor is roasted malt, caramel, spice. finish is malty caramel with a strong alcohol component. oily.

Poured a very deep red brown color with a small beige head. The aroma was mildly sweet with some dark fruit and tobacco. Some doughy notes. The flavor is a little eastery and earthy with chocolate on the tail. Light hoppy finish. Semi-dry with a medium body and some warmth in the throat.

The beer poured brown with notes of some spice and fruit. The palate showed the same spice and some of the more tree fruits on the finish. It had a nice long finish.

Draught @ the brewery: Malty aroma was a bit faint. Smelled of alcohol, wood, a little Belgian spices, medicine, and yeast. Poured a ruby-brown color with a medium-sized, creamy, off-white head that lasted. Good lacing. Flavor was a little sweet. Malty, with notes of alcohol, coriander, nutmeg, toasting, earth, clove, and a hint of banana. Medium body. Dry, sticky texture. Dry finish. Overall, a solid Abbey Dubbel. Just not one of my favorite styles.

on tap-pours a foamy tan head and dark copper color. Aroma is medium malt-fruity/sweet. Taste is medium malt-fruity/sweet, secondary/faint hops, roasty. OK/mild carbonation.

Draught at Royersford. Clear, ruby-brown body with a velvety beige head. Dark caramelized aroma with notes of bread crusts, cocoa, light rubbery clove-like phenols, and an element of cooked bananas. Moderately sweet flavor with some toasty edges and modest bitterness. Has some lingering raisin flavors, but not a great deal of depth otherwise. Still, this is a solid American dubbel overall.

On tap at the Blind Tiger in NYC. The pour was slightly murky-ish red-brown to orange, decent initial head, lacing nice too. Aroma was spices, dough, some light floral notes. The flavor followed, nice yeasty bready touch, finishing with a touch of bitterness, spices present with some zesty zing, other fruits, dark and light perhaps. Caramel and chocolate also underneath it all. The mouthfeel was moderate, pretty nice for the style, could have used some nutty notes along with the rest of the beer, pretty good stuff.

On tap at the Phoenixville location. Pours a darker brown amber with really no head. Aroma of dark fruits, toffee, candy sugar, yeast, belgian spices and light alcohol. Flavors of the same with some banana.