Abbey Dubbel
Flying Fish Brewing Company in Somerdale, New Jersey, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Dubbel Regular|
Score
6.37
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Winner of the silver medal at the 2008 Great American Beer Festival, this Belgian-style Abbey Dubbel is an exceptionally complex beer with many interwoven flavors. This classic-style Abbey beer features an immense head with a fruity nose and a generous body. Malty in the middle, the beer features a clean, almondy dry finish and a slight alcohol warmth. More like a wine than a beer—it has a lot of the qualities of a fine Burgundy.
Beer writer Michael Jackson has praised the Flying Fish Dubbel as “a wonderful example of the style.”
Malts: Two-Row Pale, Munich, Special B, Chocolate, Demerera Sugar
Hops: Styrian Golding
Yeast: Belgian Abbey Ale
Original Gravity: 16.8 Plato
Beer writer Michael Jackson has praised the Flying Fish Dubbel as “a wonderful example of the style.”
Malts: Two-Row Pale, Munich, Special B, Chocolate, Demerera Sugar
Hops: Styrian Golding
Yeast: Belgian Abbey Ale
Original Gravity: 16.8 Plato
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7/10
Bottles in Philadelphia. Medium brown pour. Dark fruit, fig, malt, pretty average but not bad
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:35
7.5/10
RB score 3.32
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2025
at 02:02
8/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:52
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
A style I like considerably, bought a 12 oz bottle of Abbey Dubbel the first I saw one since dubbels are so hard to turn up. Pulling the cap before tilting inside of my ABGB snifter. The view is a dense brown body with a here-and-gone skim of taupe foam. I find the nose to be a bit unusual. Dark fruit, malt, ash and earth. Fortunately the drink is an improvement. Ripe plums, malt, toast and a bare touch of caramel. Rather thin for a dubbel. Not bad but far from what I hoped.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2022
at 22:54
7/10
Clear amber body small foamy off white head. Toasty bready spicy aroma. Bready spicy toffee flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 7/4/7/4/15 3.7
Tried
from Can
on 29 Dec 2020
at 19:28
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pours clear dark amber with a beige head. Stone fruits, plum, bit of Belgian yeast. Not bad overall, but something seems off.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2020
at 08:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle. Copper, brown color. Small bubbly beige head. Sweet toasted malt nose has phenolic notes. Sweet fruity malt flavor has yeasty notes. Cocoa, nutty malt middle. Earthy yeastiness in finish, with alcohol warmth. Somewhat pale in comparison to the real Belgian examples. Good nonetheless.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2017
at 20:30
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
I drink this a decent amount cause my wife likes the beer. So, when I am making a mix 6 and it’s available I throw it in. At this point, I’m rating it in a flight at the brewery. It’s a slightly too sweet and too clean American version, but neither too much. Lots of herbal and phenolic yeastiness counteracting it. It’s a bit much in draft but nice in a bottle that finally made it to a mix-a-six rack after a few months at a store.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Aug 2017
at 18:19
4/10
Another filtered Belgian ale, without the active yeast just tastes too sweet and thin.
Tried
on 20 Jun 2017
at 21:05
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle - 1st beer at 38 and 99th Abbey Dubbel tick. pours brown white head - nose/taste of caramel, grape, bubblegum and sugar - medium body
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2017
at 23:17