Jailbreak Brewing Company Van Dammit Ale

Van Dammit Ale

 

Jailbreak Brewing Company in Laurel, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production
Score
6.46
ABV: 9.1% IBU: - Ticks: 9
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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Clear brown color with a medium thin light beige head that recedes steadily to an outer ring. Sparse strings of lacing on the glass. Malty aroma with caramel and fruit notes. Medium to full body with flavors of caramel malt, ripe fruit, and a touch of earthy yeast. The finish is fruity yeast and malt. Decent overall.

Tried on 17 Jul 2020 at 22:44


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draft shaker. Clear dark brown with orange hues. Aroma is cookie dough gingerbread malts without the spices. So, a cool aroma. Light plums and cherry from the yeast but low esters and not overly sweet smelling. Flavor is similarly surprisingly missing the pitfalls of many Belgians. Unsugary sweet malts with plums and lightly bitter cookie. Sweet aftertaste but a light and clean filtered body easy it off. Light body and surprisingly high alcohol. Maybe a bit of a burn at the very end.

Tried from Draft on 03 Jan 2018 at 18:55


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Deep dark brown with a pretty bright amber, brown and copper colour, along with a fast-dying single centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of candy sugar, toffee, caramel, nuts, earth, deep pitted fruits and a bit of yeast along with metal. Rich nutty and earthy flavours dominate with a big presence of candy sugar, fruits, unfinished yeast and some deep and slightly bitter alcohol and metallic notes. Aftertaste shows some fruitier flavours with apples, pears, figs, raisins and a little oranges as well, but the malt, alcohol and metal are the strongest here. Overall, a decent beer, not bad by any means, just not what I was expecting and not good for any style, whatever it happens to fall in, but a ’belgie strong’ sounds decent enough. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from The Perfect Pour in Elk Ridge, Maryland on 23-February-2016 for US$3,99, which was produced (or ’kicked out’ as the BOTTOM of the can states) on 06-January-2016, sampled at home in Washington on 11-October-2016.

Tried from Can on 12 Oct 2016 at 01:38


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Sampled on draft this beer poured a very dark brown color with orange highlights and a medium sized foamy beige head that faded and left no lacing. The aroma was malty, sweet and boozy with notes of cherry and plum. The flavor was sweet, malty and toasty with strong elements of cherry, plum and fig. There was a strong boozy presence that worked initially but quickly began to overwhelm. Long finish. Moderately full bodied. Quite nice.

Tried from Draft on 11 Apr 2016 at 15:34


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Can from R.F.D. in Dc. Comes off like a watered down quad. Prune, brown sugar tastes and aroma, some Belgian yeast, but without the thick body or ABV to back it up. Not sure what the intent was here....

Tried from Can on 24 Feb 2016 at 22:38


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

City tap house, DC pours reddish brown with a white head. Aroma is bubblegum, candied sugar, and yeast. Taste is really sweet and really full of candy. Too much sugar and too cloying for me.

Tried from Draft on 06 Nov 2015 at 18:21


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Kind of off style. Seems more like a brown ale than a Belgian. Pours dark brown with OK head and lacing. Light caramel and roast with mostly a sweet finish. Thick and slightly syrupy consistency. Tap at american taproom.

Tried from Draft on 15 May 2015 at 19:01


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

16 oz pour on draft at Pizza Tugos shared by Travlr. Slightly hazy dark amber brown with off-white head. Aromas of caramel, dark fruit, honey. Tastes of dark fruit, caramel, toffee. Medium-light body with a dry finish.

Tried from Draft on 29 Dec 2014 at 01:16


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Draft at Pizza Tugo. Deep clear amber brown. Aroma of spiced briwn bread. Taste is boozy brown bread.

Tried from Draft on 28 Dec 2014 at 14:14