Westmalle Dubbel

Brewed by Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Malle, Belgium

Pure deep brown coloured with just about no head and what is there leaves fast as well. Numerous malt esters play with our nose. Dark berries and chocolate. Full mouthfeel with above average carbonation. Big malty chocolate taste, subtle hops bring us into a bitter aftertaste. It's good, but not awesome as I expected as a fierce lover of the Dubbel style.

Exellent excellent excellent, one of the best iv ever had up there with the rochefort 10. Nice complexity, smooth, not a hint of alcohol great beer. One to have again defo

This beer rocks. The aroma is very complex and interesting. Lightly floral, moderately yeasty and heavy with malt. I found traces of honey, tawny port, dough and molasses. Dark, hazy amber hue with a large, rocky khaki head. Good lacing and mostly lasting. Delicious ale. Lightly sweet and tart. Moderately bitter. Full bodied with a lightly creamy mouthfeel. A whisper of toffee. Fizzy. Long, dry finish. An excellent belgian ale.

Pours a rich dark brown color with a huge fizzing head. Floral clover and watermelon aroma supported by mellow oaky malts. Crisp toasty malt flavor has a good yeast profile. Body is bready with a touch of rye. Overall, one of the best Belgian dubbels I've had.

dark brown colour, fine creamy head, complex aroma of malt, apple and caramel, full-bodied, moderately sweet with a dry and long malty and slightly fruity finish

its great, theres no doubting that. Rich in flavour, and lovely dark appearance. i think that my rating would have been affected by the weather (it was hot), but i still thought it pleasant to drink, but i will be retasting it, theres no doubt about that.

Vertical comparison between fresh dubbel and an old one, BBd 13.07.94 Above points for the fresh version. Old ones’ points between brackets. Colour: (Y) gushing to thick yellow-brown head, going down lacey; dark brown, mahogany shine. (O) also slight gushing to thick yellow-brown head, still lacey; very dark amber beer, quite clear at first [4]. Nose: (Y) dark malts, perfumed, alcohol. (O) vinous, malty, walnuts & raisins - a whole fruit-and-nuts cake. Complex with a lot of esters.[8] Taste (Y)Subdued bitter from fine dark malts. Ever so slight brown candi-sugar, raising with warming up. Perfumey, grassy and peppery flavour, increasing in intensity with warming towards unfermented worts. There is a retronasal hopimpression as from English hops. I have a fleeting sub-treshold of diacetyl as well, and of marzipan. (O) Nutty, oxydised flavour - a bit wild-mushroom flavour. Oxydised malt too, a bit too much roasted in character [7] Mouthfeel: (Y) well-bodied, very highly saturated. (O) Alcohol-burn, quite full-bodied. [4] Aftertaste: (Y) faint liquorice, more with warming up, slight bittering effect. (O) long prolonging of the former tastes [4] Overall: (Y) This is the surprise. This beer is actually BETTER than I remember it. Trappist ales rule indeed. (O) Somewhere the taste of the old beer derails on the overly roasted malts, whilst the nice madeirisation in the nose was promessing better. [14] I seem to have to come to the inevitable conclusion that the beer has been bettered in recent times. I know some people who are going to disagree with me...

Murky red / brown colour with light brown head. Aroma is malty with caramel and nuts. Flavor is not as powerfull as I had wanted. It has some malts, but it is not as complex as other dubbel’s. Finish is acidic.