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Westmalle Dubbel

Westmalle Dubbel

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An Abbey Dubbel brewed by
Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle

Malle, Belgium

bottled
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12193.88/5.03.88/5.07%97.5Trappist glass P  Stats

Commercial Description:
A reddish brown trappist ale, malty and fruit, featuring a 3 week secondary fermentation.

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 Sammy (3135), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/520/20

Sep 18, 2004  
Strong carbonation and flavour. Residual spice, great lacing in chestnut brown. Sweet and spice. A great example of a trappist, a bit cheaper than the real westvleteren, but a good second choice. A Best Friend of a good meal. Cocoa, berries that seem and smell like wine but only a small percentage. Banana and fruit yeast smooth .

 Cartoon_khaki (1120), Brantford, Ontario, Canada
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/103/516/20
Oct 10, 2008  
Dark darkl, amber with huge tan head. Sweat yeasty aroma with stewed fruit hints. Bit of red wine hints. Sweet flavour with a lot of yeast and musty dust. Acidic palate light chewy. Glad I got a couple of bottles.


mikalooch (31), , New Jersey, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/517/20
Oct 8, 2008  
Poured from bottle.Dark red with a nice tan head. Wonderful aroma, can smell caramel, fruit, bread. Malty sweet taste, with just the right amount of hoppy bitterness to balance it out. Very dry but enjoyable. Medium mouthfell, just right. Excellent overall.


 JesseM (406), Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/517/20
Oct 6, 2008    Updated: Oct 7, 2008
330mL bottle from the LCBO. Pours a very dark burgundy with a huge tan head that eventually reduces to some nice fluff. Aroma is really nice, some Belgian caramalt, loads of yeast and fruity esters, candi sugar, and some more generic sweetness. Smells quite enticing. Flavour is really good, and not what I’ve come to expect from Dubbels. Lots of the sweet malty aspects upfront, met with some nice herbal hops, a touch of alcohol, and rounding out very sharply with a lot of yeasty dryness. Mild hint of banana. The fruity esters in this one are just great. Very sharp. Some leafy hops are present in the flavour too, but were absent in the aroma. Red grapes feature prominently, and lend a very pleasant and apparent red wine characteristic to this well crafted brew. Very nice stuff, and I look forward to more.


 thooper41 (231), USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Oct 5, 2008  
11.2 oz bottle: pours dark brown with quick fading off white head, aroma has faint yeast smell aloong with hints of fruit, flavor is kind of weak has a light tasting base malt along with some raisons and along with that complex belgian twang thats hard to explain. pretty good beer but belgium has a lot more to offer.


 wilderthanyou (323), Guelph, Ontario, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Oct 5, 2008  
The beer pours a deep murky brown with a sticky light beige head. The aroma is very yeasty with light notes of some dark fruits, a little thin for a Belgian. The flavour was pretty decent, mostly of dark fruits, but the finish is what makes this beer, first there is a dry hoppy sour bitterness that melts away to leave behind this dark sour cherry flavour that sits on your tongue until the next sip, friggin awesome.



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