Courant
Rolling Hills Brouwcompagnie (Formerly Known As Petre Devos) in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij 't VerzetBelgian Style - Dubbel Regular
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Score
6.95
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
Quite good beige-cream head over fully opaque, orangey tinted brown beer. Very perfumey, almost effeminate marzipan-frangipane nose, but covering a much nicer woody-lactic acid aroma, consistent with good Oud Bruin. Bit of caramel. Very dry, and watery dark malt flavour with some wood, milkchocolate, but generally very dull. No more lactic acid, no more refreshing acidity, as promised by the nose. Perfumey, but lame dark malts. Not very well-bodied, lean and watery, and not very carbonated either. Aftertaste is bitterish metallic. Seriously disappointing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from LDW, Eke. Dark brown colour, beige foam. Nose of caramel, plums, raisins, spices, light bitter. Taste is rather sweet with light roastiness and bitter finish. Nice dubbel..
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
26/04/2018 @home - 33cl bottle from Prik & Tik Edelare. Dark brown with amber sides, fading light tanned head. Just small rim leaving. Nose is malts, bit metallic, caramel. Taste is malts, forest fruits, bit metallic, some hops. Not bad. Not that sweet and just a bit more than the average dubbel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
In the classic yet unwritten, 20th-century Belgian beer style law, every blonde needs a 'bruin' and this is the one in the Petre Devos brand; obviously a tripel should be next, and rumour has it that is exactly what these guys are going to do next - in fact, a tripel should have been on the market since late 2017, but apparently has been subjected to some delay. Spiced dubbel claiming to have been popular throughout the different social layers of society (see the label text), this comes from a classic 33 cl Belgian trappist bottle, bought at Geers near Ghent. Regulary shaped, thickly moussy, pale yellowish beige, lightly lacing, quite dense and stable head over an initially cristal clear, deep mahogany brown beer with bright ruby red hue, cloudy and a bit deeper brown with sediment. Classic Belgian dubbel aroma of caramel candy, dried banana, very pronounced coriander seed, raisin, damp earth, raw red cabbage, soaking wet peanuts, industrially made white bread, burnt brown sugar, ginger powder, liquorice candy, some fresh fig, hints of wet dog, pond water, carrot juice, damp towels, cloves, overcooked salsify (DMS hint, in other words), old coffee grounds, iron. Sweetish onset with a sourish undercurrent, hinting at ripe pear, red apple and light banana, estery but in a rather restrained kind of way, with some residual brown sugary sweetness sticking to the teeth a bit - yet refraining from becoming overly cloying; minerally, spritzy carbonation, lean and somewhat resinous mouthfeel, tad soapy, feeling a bit lighter than 6% ABV. Classic caramelly, walnutty and toasted bread-like maltiness, hard caramel candy at first but adding more toasted bitterishness towards the finish, with soapy edges from the über-Belgian coriander treatment, releasing dusty old coriander seed aromas retronasally. Some dried fruity aspects linger but again in a cleanish kind of way, lots of coriander remains and toasty sides to an otherwise caramelly sweetish maltiness dominate the finish, softly bittered by a late, herbal and somewhat earthy hop bitterness accentuating the toastiness rather than overpowering it. Minerally and even lightly iron-tinged aspects linger while the caramel - bitter toast combo remains the basic profile, quite heavily drenched in soapy coriander. I doubt whether dubbels were made like this already in the thirties, but other than that, this is an extremely traditional Belgian dubbel or 'brune', of a type I have encountered a few times too many in this country. This beer, though correctly made, does not distinguish itself from any other 'artisanal' brown 'streekbier' in this country, even boldly includes the coriander seed aspect, and is therefore at least redundant. One for the traditional, 20th-century-minded Belgian chauvinist beer drinker (of which there are many) so an easy hit commercially speaking, but not very interesting to the more discerning beer geek. At least it doesn't suffer as much from DMS, like the original blonde one did (though admittedly this issue may have been remedied meanwhile). Even if it doesn't seem to exist yet, I'm willing to offer a bet that the exact same thing can be said of the tripel when it finally avails. Maybe after completing the obligatory blond-bruin-tripel triangle, the guys behind this project will be forced to come up with something more challenging, though I can already feel a spiced winter quadrupel approaching at the end of this year - mark my words...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Petre Devos Courant (by Petre Devos Audenaerde bvba):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
12/II/18 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: 4/XII/19, bottled: 4/XII/19 (2018-161)
Note: another first I missed, due to my huge backlog :p
Little cloudy purple brown beer, big crackling creamy to frothy beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice stuff going on here, pretty fruity, some forest fruits, berries, soft roast, dried fruits, some caramel, ripe banana, chocolate, fruity hops, malty, overall sweet impression. MF: rather lively carbon, medium body, smooth creamy texture. Taste: bit sweet, caramel, ripe banana, soft roast, pretty hoppy. Aftertaste: bitter, soft roast, hoppy, some caramel, dark chocolate, indeed "refreshing", despite the more roasted and sweet character. Quite lovely if you ask me!