Val-Dieu Brune

Brewed by Brasserie de l’Abbaye du Val-Dieu
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Aubel, Belgium

(Bottle, best before 05/08/06) Pours deep red to brown. Sweet dark fruit aroma with some raisins, cherries, dark grapes and berry juice. Earthy, coffee undertones with some cheese and tiny notes of hops. Sweet flavour with some fruits and berries, Hints of allmond paste. Medium body. Simple.

33 cl, bottled . Color is dark copper, with small head filtered. malt and caramel in the nose, dry and domminant malt taste. not too bad for a supermarket beer

Bottle. Aber brown colour with a nice light brownish head. Aroma: bready maltiness with caramel and some yeast. Flavour of caramellic toasty maltiness, some yeast, bit of spices. Malty and yeasty dry finish.

Pours a dark mohagony with ruby highlights. There’s a one inch head that fades slowly to a thin cap, which never disappears, leaving behind a thick webbing of lace. Smell; this smells very strongly of plums and caramel malts. There’s a bit of a vinous quality, with some grapes and a bit of alcohol. As this warms some breadiness, and spices start to come out. Taste; starts off with dark roasted malts, choclate and caramel, and just a bit on the sugary side. The dark fruits come out nicely, but melds well with the little bit of alcohol that comes through. There’s a bit of spices, with some corriander and maybe some cloves, with a little hop bitterness thrown into the mix. Mouthfeel is medum bodied.. Even with the sweetness the drinkablitly is pretty high on this one.

Hazy brown with medium off-white head. Sour aroma and taste. Not great...but worth trying. Only a bit of sweetness, no developed malt tastes really.

Very sour aroma with fruit. Clear brown body, medium off-white head. Puckeringly sour flavour.

(0.33L Bottle) Pours a brown color with a small, lasting head. Aroma of spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. Some caramel notes in the taste as well. This is a simple, yet balanced and tasty dubbel.

Dark cloudy brown body with some sediment and a large frothy tan head. Sweet fruit aroma with some molassas and caramel. Slightly sour flavor with some fruit, caramel, molassas, and a touch of spice.