Abbey's Single
Destihl Brewery in Normal, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.58
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A Belgian-style abbey ale crafted like those that Trappist monks brew for their own session beer. It is light bodied, light in color and relatively lower in alcohol with spicy phenolics and complex fruity esters of cherries, nectarines, peaches and bubblegum with a characteristic slightly tart and dry finish from the Belgian yeast.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can. Very light amber with a nice head. Aroma is kind of weak. Bread, grass a touch fruity. Taste is yeasty grains with a touch of nectirine and Belgian spice.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Mar 2025
at 05:02
8/10
Tried
from Can
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:45
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From tap. Pours hazy yellow, small white head. Aroma is toasted malty and slight cornish. Bitter, dry and toasted malty. Bitter and slight herbal. Dry and bitter far finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 May 2017
at 21:52
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sampled on draft this beer poured a bright golden-amber color with a medium sized creamy orange-white head that left decent lacing. The aroma was sweet with golden fruits and a bit of yeast. The flavor was sweet, tangy and yeasty with sugar and golden fruits. Long finish. Moderately full bodied. Quite pleasant.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Feb 2017
at 20:23
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Not much of a Belgian single. Aroma is mainly yeast with a little bit of mold and Spice. Flavor is fairly tart, lots of yeast in a little bit of malt and grain.
Tried
on 23 Feb 2017
at 20:38
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
12 ounce can from The Malt Shoppe, 9/11/16. Uh oh, some bad signs here. Hazy orange, large foamy head, about 5 fingers before I got half the can emptied. Good retention. Aroma has some chlorine and bandaid. Also some bready malt and citrus. The taste is stone fruit, bready malt. Assertively high carbonation is stripping out most of the flavor. Thin bodied. Something is awry here.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Dec 2016
at 23:53
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can. A- Floral, garden veggies, fruity esters. A- Gold color, clear liquid, white head. T- Bubblegum, subtle banana, fruit esters, flowers, slightly vegetal. P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, yeasty finish. O- Pretty standard and nothing about it really excited me. It’s drinkable but the flavor profile is just a bit bland.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Oct 2016
at 17:01
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a dark golden with a average white head. Aroma is a helping of the yeast with a big helping of some sweet caramel malt. Flavor is more of a dull dry malt not much of the yeast esters show up. Finish is dry and bready malt. This was just o.k. Not much of a yeast presence but on the other hand it was not as sweet as I thought it would be. This was more like a marzen than Belgian ale.
Tried
on 20 Aug 2016
at 15:46
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can. Pours a brownish amber with a thin head and toffee aromas with a bit of leaf litter and earth. Flavor is kind of nutty and watery. Not my favorite take on the style.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Aug 2016
at 21:35
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draft. Deep golden body, frothy white head. Light aroma of cobweb, basement mustiness, straw, pear. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Not a lot going on here. Taste of floral hops, toasted grain, light spice.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jul 2016
at 20:12