Stoudts Abbey Double

Brewed by Stoudts Brewing Co.
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Adamstown, Pennsylvania USA

Mahogany coloured. Nutty aroma with notes of camembert cheese. Malty, rather sweet and complex with soft mouthfeel. Nice toffee flavour. A full flavoured, but dangerously drinkable abbey double. Thanks jca_lbi for sending me this and many other excellent beers!!

RBSG07. From 75 cL bottle. Pours hazy hazzlenut brown. Aroma is slight malty and dried raisin. Flavour is maltyd dried raisin flavour. Dried malty finish.

Re-rate: Dark brown/red, unfiltered with minimal head. Apricot aroma. Sweet malty/yeasty/apricot flavor.

Bottle Vintage Date: 2/27/03. Virtually no head. Deep mahagony in color. Light aroma (had to take a very deep breath to detect a trace of chocolate). Tastes of chocolate with a sour aftertaste.

5 3 5 2 11 Re-rated. Bottle vintage ’04 tasted on 3/15/06 (thanks Mike!). Much better than the last one (must have gone bad). Aromas of chocolate, dark fruits, caramel, and yeast. Tastes of dark fruits, chocolate, vanilla, yeast, and caramel. Threw out the ratings from the bad bottle and rated from this one.

Dirty brown (dark chocolate milk) body, cloudy, diminishing light brown head. Aroma of bold chocolate, light notes of yeast, but mostly about malt. Earthy, dirty with light alcohol peaks and mostly a weird unexpected fruitiness along the line of oranges. In mouth, it's pretty tart, like an apple/orange/grapefruit juice to which you'd add earthy caramel. Quite off as far as flavor balance is concerned and definitely not up to Stoudt's standards as I've experienced them. Body is creamy, okay fitting if a little overcarbonated. Lots of room for improvement.

Vintage dated on 6/4/03: Pours a muddy murky brown with a thin off-white head. Aroma is rich and caramely sweet with some bready Belgian yeast in it. Starts sugary sweet with some yeasty complexity, caramel, toffee, and dark candi sugar flavors. Body is a little thin toward the finish and undercarbonated, plus this could use some more balance. Nice authentic Belgian flavors though make this a quite drinkable brew.

This beer rocks! Sparkling clear mohogany brew. Small, fizzy, lightly-tanned head is quickly and fully dissipating. Very complex aroma. Tons of malt and yeast induced notes. Belgian chocolate, candy sugar, prunes, raisins and other dark fruits, toffee, butterscotch, caramel and pistachios. The flavor is of overripe bananas, light sourgham molasses, dark raisins, English toffee, butter and plums up front. Nicely balanced with a lightly tart and barely bitter hop and yeast presence along with a touch of alcohol on the backside. Full-bodied with a buttery mouthfeel and light carbonation. Long, very lightly bitter and pungent finish. Leaves a numb feeling (or lack thereof) on the tongue. I am now officially a big fan of Stoudts Brewing Co. I've enjoyed every beer I've tried from them. This one is no exception. Recommended!

Sweet licorice/bubblegum brandy and sleepy, roasting chocolate...A few berries peering through a snail-fast mudslide...The abundant yeast adds orangey acidity and transforms the sweet fruitiness into black grapes and prunes...A valiant effort with a weak finish, fun but I’d rather reach for their Anniversary or IPA...