Unibroue Maudite

Brewed by Unibroue (Sapporo)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Chambly, Canada

this beer reminds me of autumn, the color of changing leaves and apple butter. medium, consistent head. slightly cloudy after adding yeast. aroma is full of apples and burnt fruit (raisins, apricots). tingling mouthfeel, although a little bit thin. quite complex flavor, tart, full of spice, and a touch of astringency. definitely in your face. finish is dry and slightly alcoholic. not perfect, but very enjoyable.

has the spicy aroma of a hefe, but the similarities stop there....slight bit of bubblegum and spice in the flavor as well....interesting brew

Dark sludgy brown like a westmalle dubbel, but the head was short lived. Aroma initially suggests a trappist dubbell (westmalle, again) but develops into more of a rodenbach type woody spicyness, although not sour. Bread dough in the mouth with a fruity (fig?) spicy cakelike taste. Aftertaste is delicate but leaves behind the first hint of its taste. As I work my way through the Unibroue beer range, saving the strongest for last (I have a trois pistoles and a La Fin Du Monde left) I get more and more impressed.

My bottle gushed. Typical dubbel aroma, spicy and ’woody’. Brownish orange color. Good head retention. Excellent flavor, a kind of spicy/fruity/woody profile. First I get this kind of apple/pear flavor which quickly fades and is followed by the woody spiciness. At first I wasn’t impressed with this but as I take a few more sips I begin to feel its depth. Will Re-Rate again later hopefully with a bottle that doesn’t gush.

This is a great beer! I’ve never tasted anything like it, it had a spicey kind of apple cider taste to it I loved it can’t wait to go to the main land again to stock up on this one!

Second independent rating: 5/5/8/5/16 = 3.9, down from 7/5/8/4/18 = 4.2. Appearance a big strong point here. Dark ruby/maroon with nice big bubbly, then frothy, white head. Light grassy aroma. Flavor of candied fruits, grapes perhaps. Goes down ultra-smooth and frothy.

Original commentary: Dee-lish. Apricot or what have you in the aroma, and some kind of incomparable cloudy red-brown color with some enticing, guiltily pleasing head foam retention. Some beers just never have a chance to compare to the lustily alluring appearance of this she-devil, it’s just not fair. It’s not. I mean, this is what appearance is supposed to be all about. Best. Ever. The rest isn’t at all bad, not in the slightest bit. Apricot or whatever it is reasserts itself in the flavor profile, but I’m too focused on this outrageous appearance profile to care. Soft and creamy mouthfeel ought to be outlawed in these parts. Oh bliss, heaven was heaven, gorgeousness and gorgeosity and all that. Gravity all nonsense now. Bliss was it to be alive, but to be young was nearly heaven. I’m drunk approx. 2/3 off my keister and still enjoying Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother.

Obviously this brewery knows what they’re doing. La Maudite is a great tasting beer that lives up to its evil label - it will bring out the devil in you. Not bitter, not too sweet, apple, slight fig, carmel, are all good flavors to describe this beer. Excellent.

Poured golden brown with a medium, bubbly head. Started with a sharper fizziness that mellowed later. Fruits tasted were grape and cherry in the malts and some citrus/orange peel and spiceyness/corriander. A nice hop contributed dryness and balance. This is devillishly good. (My 666th rating on Friday the 13. 12/13/2002)