Game of Thrones: Valar Morghulis
Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Dubbel Series|
Score
7.23
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Each cork is fire-branded with “Valar Dohaeris,” the traditional response phrase to “Valar Morghulis” meaning “all men must die.”
Valar Morghulis possesses a deep chestnut brown color with a persistent and creamy tan head. Rich aromas of caramel, toffee, ripe fruits and burnt sugar, with a hint of cloves. The taste is delicately balanced with rich malty sweetness, caramel and just enough bitterness to balance out its malty backbone. A surprisingly dry finish is light on the tongue, which belies the initial aroma.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at Alewife Queens, New York. Colour is brown with very small white head. Aromas and flavours: Ripe fruits, dry fruits, caramel, Belgian yeast and malts. Pretty average dubbel IMO.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Poured from 750mL bottle (aged for not quite a year). Amber brown with beige head. Lots of raisin and dark fruits, brown sugar, and little caramel. Finishes medium dry.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Pours copper with a large head.Nose shows caramel, toffee, sultanas, prunes and soft spicy notes.Similar flavours. Quite sweet with bready and sultana notes.Carbonation is pretty aggressive.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sampled from a 750 ml brown bottle this beer poured an orange-brown color with an enormous foamy orange-tan head that lingered forever and left great lacing. The aroma was sweet, mlaty, dark fruits, cola, yeast and a hint of spice. The flavor was malty, dark fruits, cola, yeast, a bit herbal and a touch medicinal. Long finish. Moderately full bodied. Interesting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured a cloudy brown color ale with a medium size foamy head with OK retention and light lacing. Aroma of light spices with quite a bit of caramelized malt and residual sugar notes. Taste is also dominated by heavy caramelized malt with quite a bit of residual sugar notes with light spices notes. Body is full with medium to good carbonation. Short on attenuation and little bit too heavy for my taste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle thanks to my wife stephrocks: Poured a dark brown color with a tan head. Aroma was dark fruits, toffee, and malt. Taste was high fermented fruit, alcohol tang, rich malts, and caramel. Finish was dry.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle 750ml @ Hotel room, Weber’s, Ann Arbor, MI
Pours clear deep reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, dried fruits, yeast and hint of licorice and alcohol. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long warm, malty, caramel, dried fruity and yeasty finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 75cl corked. It pours a dense, two-ginger dark beige head over a clear, chestnut colored body. The aroma has lots of dried fruits, some nuts and roasted malts, some hints of chocolate and there’s also some bread crust. It’s full-bodied, smooth and lightly warming on the palate, with a good of bitterness and a touch of resins. Dried fruits, bready caramel, some Norwegian style brown cheese, a little caramel note and nuts in the flavor, all lasting for a good while, with the bitterness balancing the sweetness very well. A well brewed dubbel with a lot of good flavors and aromas, still I feel something is missing, pity I can’t put my finger on it. 150614
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a dark amber colour, almost copper, with a frothy beige head, good retention and some nice fluffy lacing. Aromas of dark fruits (plums, raisins), caramel, farm yeast and with time, lots of fresh apples. There is a sharp weird hop bites in the taste over the fruits and caramel malts. It gives the mouth a metallic feel which is not as good. Hints of bananas from the yeast in the aftertaste. Not the best Dubbel, but overall not bad. Just not one I would have again, but glad to have tried.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle courtesy of Ed, thank you sir! Clear amber brown color. Roasty cocoa aroma. Taste is chocolate brownies. Hodor!