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
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12oz bottle-pours a rich dissipating off white head and amber color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-molasses, spice, yeast. Taste is lots of sweet medium malt-molasses, peat, spice-hops, yeast. Nice, easy drinking, interesting interpretation of the style. Has a dopplebock character. OK carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2007
at 21:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle pours a clear deep chestnut with a small but creamy light tan head leaving thin wispy persistant lacing. Lots of caramel malt aroma with over ripe apples, cinnimon and alcohol. Flavor is not as interesting. Some of those sweet caramel malts afgain but slightly sour and woody. The Belgian yeast flavors are prominant but balace with everything well.Slight alcohol notes and a nice smooth palate. Very softly carbonated and a late trailer of ash.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2007
at 00:36
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
So it pours a light brown with a slightly off white head that moves away at a moderate pace. Definitely smelled a lot of toffee in the aroma with a little bit of booze for good measure. Taste is that good old banana with some alcohol on top. Maltiness is there a little bit and so is some caramel. It is sweet, but not one of the really sweet dubbels. Not too bad.
Tried
on 18 Jul 2007
at 22:58
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
I love dubbels but this beer is a total failure at being one. A brown beer with an unpleasant sweet potato aroma. Only a hint of malt. Don’t bother.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2005
at 21:01
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
I have not been much of a fan of the beers I have had from this brewer in the past, but this is the first I have stopped to rate. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer pours a mahogany color with a small creamy tan head. The aroma is sweet and sugary with a chocolate element. The flavor is rich and sweet and has a strong chocolate note. Not a bad brew, but really does not taste much like a dubbel to me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2005
at 15:28
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Medium amber with sticky, lasting lace - inviting aroma of belgian sugars, light fruits, mustiness and spice - a nice balance of tartness and sweetness in the flavor, with some light fruitiness, some apple, pear - lingering cloves and caramel - Middle of the road for the style, but still quite tasty.
Tried
on 15 May 2005
at 20:27
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Clear amber coloured body with a thin off-white head. Aroma of brown sugar, pit fruits, malt and some caramel. Medium-bodied; Sweet taste up front with caramel and other burnt sugars present. Malt and some spices noticeable-but the finish is fairly light and fresh. Overall, a refreshing dubbel-more calm and subtle than most-but definately worth a try. I bought this twelve ounce bottle at Chevy Chase Wine & Spirits over Christmas and sampled it on 26-May-2004.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2004
at 01:05
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Thanks to dberger624 for this fine Dubbel. Pours a deep ruby/amber with a thin light beige head (no retention). Minimal lacing. Aroma of malt, and brown sugar toward the end. Flavor was somewhat strong, predominantly malty but with a nut and cherry presence as well. Finish was slightly flat but it did not detract from the beer much at all. I am not an expert on the style but I didn't think this was too bad at all.
Tried
on 23 Jan 2003
at 21:36
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Yellow-brown. Sweet, vinuous, mild and soft with short, intensive complex aroma.
Tried
on 26 Feb 2002
at 03:54
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
I don't buy the description above. Its not really very Belgiany at all, and although it had a nice, interesting sweet flavor, I found it lacking in body and flavor. Aroma was sweet - color is orangish brown but lighter than I'd like. Its only Belgiany trait was that it vaguely resembled the unique Orval, but I'd call it Orval Lite at best.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2001
at 11:52