Anderson Valley Brother Davids Double

Brewed by Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Dubbel
Boonville, California USA

Bottle: Poured a deep brown color ale with a medium foamy head with average retention and some lacing. Aroma consists of lightly sweet caramel malt with some residual candi sugar. Taste is not overly complex with some bland caramel malts with some easily noticeable candi sugar. Body is a bit thin for style with OK carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Lacking some complexity and character with too much sugar.

Bottled. Pour is light brown with off white head atop. Slightly smokey and malt aroma. Taste sweet malt and light cocoa.

Aroma of molasses, brown sugar, rum and malted chocolate. Appearance was murky brown with creamy head. Flavor matched the nose completely. Palate was lively. Another solid beer from Anderson Valley.

Bottle that’s been kicking around far too long and has been taken to a number of places and then never consumed. It’s been to at least 3 different tastings, and BCTC and never got cracked into, so finally opened it tonight. Pours a light cola brown with a thin yellowed beige head. Loads of sweet caramel, a bit of oxidized cardboard, and a touch of chocolate and cherries. Sweet, a bit boozey, and a lot of dark fruit. Finishes really hot, lots of warming alcohol. Unbalanced and tough to finish though.

~Aroma of chocolate, caramel, raisins, apple, and dried cherries. Perfumy. A lot going on in the aroma. ~Pours a dark amber with small off white head. ~The flavor is similar to the scent. Lots of maltiness. Slight smokiness. ~Creamy feel, full bodied, sweet finish. ~Excellent brew. I’m just not a huge fan of sweet brews like this one. Well balanced and complex. Good dessert brew.

Tap at Lucky Devil. Not bad AT ALL for a US Belgian. Nose of banana and flour, nice dark brown color, flavor is banana, dark fruit, sweet dark malts, and a long slow finish. If they started using Trappist yeast for this we’d have a contender I think. I was really pleasantly surprised.

poured ruby red oarnge with a dark eggshell colored head that fell pretty fast. can smell apple and oarnges with alcohol breaking through. very dark in the glass with little light passing through from side to side. thin lacing inside the glass as i spun the glass. tastes lake wine grapes and tangerines with a bitter hoppiness to it and is not to malty. slightly sweet with the tone of the alcohol setting in the middle of my palate. medium bodied and with slighty malty aftertaste to it as it finishes.

Pours chestnut brown with no head. On the nose is an old attic wood chest smell, shelac maybe, with mold and cheap caramel candy aromas. On the palate is an off-toffy taste with a caramel chew flavor. Some unpleasant alcohol is present, and this finish is on the weak side for an Abbey. Easy to drink but not very appetizing. Worth trying if presented before you but not worth seeking out, especially at the premium price for the large waxed bottle. Disappointing.