’Sterkins dubbel Ale: S5L3F1T4O10 Big chunks in my glass from the stuff on the bottom of the bottle. Look, I like yeasty sediment but these are actual chunks of dried looking dark dirt. Has a fairly good aroma, sweetish trappest perhaps. Ice tea color with no head. Creamy carbonation but it’s barely there. Starts off interestingly dubblish rubbish but in a good way. It is a modest alky and all, but then this nifty lemon or lime appears for a nano-second followed by perhaps some old partially dry fruit flavors. Finally it finishes with rather flat old country mouthfeel. Not much hop bitterness in this brew, if any. There are many other better dubbels.’

Pours a cloudy, brown color with almost no hea, and *clumps* of floating yeast. Sweet, yeasty aroma, bread, dark fruits. Very thin body, especially for a dubbel. Some caramel and sugars, almost sour finish. Avoid.

33cl bottle from Kingdom Liquors (Tampa, FL). Pours a hazy dark brown color with a thin white head. Little lacing on the glass. Aroma is sweet malt, chocolate, dark ripe fruit, some spices. Flavor is interesting -- sour dark ripe fruit, slightly sweet malt, some hints of wet grain, honey, and hops. Generally medium bodied with a sweet and sour slightly hoppy finish.

11.2oz bottle. Poured a deep orangish / amber color with a larger sized off white head. Lots of huge and ugly looking floaters. Aromas of bread (rye bread), yeast, some dark fruits, and some spices. Tastes of dark fruits, and some caramel. Tastes on the softer side. Body was thin and kind of watery.

(Belgium) Pours a nice burgundy color with a long lasting foamy white head. The aroma is of raisins, dark malts, and kind of grassy. The taste is of caramel, figs, and a hint of spices. The mouthfeel is zesty at first but turns kind of metallic in the finish. Overall, not bad but could use a bit of fine-tuning.