Duinen Dubbel

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

You have to love the Duinen beers...........simple names, taste good. The beer pours a reddish-brown colour, clear when held to the light, and has a 1" light brown head. The aroma is dominated by sweet caramel malt, yeast, grains, and plums. The flavour is very yeasty with caramel sweetness and a bitter finish being secondary.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Poured a vigorous head with very toffee/caramel aroma with slighly burntish overtones. Good caramelly flavor with hops to barely keep it in check. A sweet but spicy dubbel. I dig this beer. Dark and unapologetic. Nice.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

08.11.05 Undated 750ml bottle, wrestled with the cork for five minutes to remove it. Deep ruby brown with small beige head. First whiff reminds of canned fruit salad, reduced with brown sugar and apples in a seasoned old skillet. Plum pudding. Some sherry and wood qualities come through, and butterscotch hints. Sour fruitiness is also plummy, like an underipe fruit, also reminiscent of the sourness in yogurt. Lingering caramelized fruits, cherry, plum, pear, grape. Acidity breaks up the sweetness and fairly heavy body but gets a bit tiring in its own right. Woody, dry finish. Nice.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Duinen solves the problem of green glass by painting opaque white. Dark brown with moderate beige head. Aroma carries sting of alcohol. Good pruney fruitiness. Wood and a surprising (slightly unpleasant) bitterness. Perhaps it's the bitterness, but the flavor is a bit thin. Alcoholic warmth in chest. Extrememely faint Sourness lurks under the bitterness

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Bottled. Reddish brown colour, mediumsized beige head. Dark berries (black currant) and maybe some winegums (?, the non-raters at the table said so...). Also alcohol present, but fits in very well. Sweet aftertaste, and sticky palate. A bit barleywineish hints over it.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Nice malt nose.Caramel colored with a thin tan head. Hides the alcohol exceptionally well. Let a coors lighter try it and even he enjoyed it. Very good malty beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Have a had bottle of this in my "cellar" for a year or two, and finally decided to break it out. I was a little leary at first, since it's been my expeirence that "painted bottle = evil beer" (e.g. Gulden Draak, Delirium Tremens, etc). But it was a good sign that carbonation was still very much intact, and a nice oaky fruity aroma immediately sprang forth as I poured it into my glass goblet.

Grape-like aroma -- a bit like port wine or sherry. So far, so good. After one sip, I knew this was a winner, through and through. Nice chewy malt, that doesn't back down in front of the big (yet warming) alcohol prescence. More port wine undertones in the front and middle, with a more traditional classical Belgian Ale finish. Not enough hops to matter, but enough so the complex malt profile doesn't get too carried away.

I expected this to be sugary and nasty (like it's very Belgian white bottle brethren), but this is quite drinkable, and I enjoyed it very much. Not the typical beer to enjoy after brewing up a batch of beer (today was an O.G. 1.081 IPA), but nice enough to kick back with and savor.
//TB

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 8

Dark ruby color, small head. Malty aroma. Nice tastingDubbel. Light and refreshing, yet lots of flavor, complex and subtle. Typical of Belgians. Complex and subtle flavors: take your pick, fruit, raisins, apples, pears, cloves, candy sugars and ??. Nice beer. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter. Nice beer, reasonably priced.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Very dark brown with some amber highlights. Very pretty beer with a long lasting medium light tan head. The aromas are green beans, caramel, dark chocolate and some apricots. Has a nice rich, smooth mouthfeel. The taste is a little sweet with grapes and plums. I had trouble picking up tastes that were not fruity. Overall, a very smooth and drinkable entry. Probably a little better than their tripel.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

ruby colour, creamy head and a correct lacing, malty nose, touch of ginger, full-bodied, sweet, long spicy finish - I can't really enjoy it because I don't like ginger