33cl bottle. Brown colour with a tan, frothy and creamy head; nice lacework, perfect lasting. Aroma is strong caramel, sweet, yeasty. Flavor is chocolate, burnt sugar, caramel, toffe, bready. The aftertaste is sweet, strong caramel and alcoholic. Carbonation is medium. Body is high. Texture is oily.

33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ Traverse, Utrecht. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Spicy aroma with caramel and molasses. Tastes almost stout like with heavy roasted malts with some smoke. Aftertaste is surprisingly light but still satisfying. Good a-typical dubbel.

Bottle at Cafe de la Gare. Pours dark brown with sediment and an off white head. Aroma of dark over-ripe fruit, raisins and molasses. Flavour is medium sweet and bitter. Full bodied with moderate carbonation.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Val-Dieu Brune (by Brasserie de l'Abbaye du Val-Dieu):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

30/VI/2012 - 33cl bottle @ Brambo's place - BB: 26/X/13 (2012-677) Thanks to Brambo for sharing the bottle!

Clear red brown beer, aery light beige head, unstable, little adhesive. Aroma: caramel, banana, mocha, chocolate, some alcohol. MF: lots of carbon, light to medium body. Taste: caramel, sweet malts, bit grassy, herbal, green banana, chocolate. Aftertaste: some hops, banana, chocolate, alcohol is noticeable, pretty bitter.

Aug 2009: Brown 33cl bottle obtained from the brewery in 2008. No best by date to be found on the bottle or labels, but I know the beer is at least 14 months old. Today I am celebrating Grimsby Towns win at Bury and the fact England are going to win the fifth Test against Australia and win back the Ashes. I am also pleased to have mown the lawns and re-felted my shed roof today, I deserve a decent beer! The beer was poured (sediment and all) into an ’Augustijn’ badged chalice. Looked dark brown at first, but held up to the sun it showed its true colour, a dark redwood tree reddy brown. The sediment hung within the body, suspended, floating as in space, only visible when held up to the sunlight. On top sat a cream coloured soft foaming head. The head shrunk but stayed, strong lacing clung to the glass as the beer level reduced, this beer was in good order. Sweet and sour aroma, almost fruity (mostly cherry like) smell too. The smell got more sour as the beer warmed, the taste didn’t, although a slight bitterness did appear towards the end of the tasting. Plums, Victoria Plums came to mind as I sarted to sip the beer, then rich fruit cake soaked in Port. This is very drinkable, the 8% is evident straight away, but because of its richness and fullness of body, the alcohol doesn’t take over and ruin the experience.

Clear reddish brown with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and dark fruity. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet finish with warming alcohol. 280212

Bottle. Dark amber/brown with medium tan head. Aroma is malt, yeast, caramel and dried fruits. Flavour is malts, medium sweet, dried fruits, little toffee, yeast and a little caramel.