Deep ruby colored, bit cloudy, small off white head. Aroma is fruity, yeasty bit of spices and some acidity. Taste is low to medium sweet caramel, some toffee, dark fruits, some acidity, spice and yeast. Low on bitterness. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation.

A brown ale with a long history, brewed since 1958 by Van Assche, then taken over by Villers and finally, in 1998, by Huyghe; originally called Vieille Villers Dubbel and tasted as such years ago. Misty brown beer with off-white foam and yeasty, sweetish profile with a subtle acidity, probably due to added lactic acid or something, estery, dryish finish. Far from being the most convincing example of the style.

Bottle shared. Pours hazy brown with a tan head. Aroma of dark fruits, malt, red berries, black berries, strawberry milkshake and caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with light carbonation.

33cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Mini gusher. Thin creamy off white head. Hazy amber pour. Ok, nothing special

Imported from my RateBeer account as Vieille Villers (Oud) Bruin (by Brouwerij Huyghe):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5

13/IX/13 - 33cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ home - BB: VIII/13 (well, I guess two weeks ain't gonna make the difference) (2013-845)

Clear deep brown to purple beer, aery off-white to beige head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: mocha, some dried fruits, quite some orange peel, bready, bit of caramel. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: sugary start, some sort of citric sourness (been tampered with to make it a bit sour???), caramel, dried fruits and dried/candied orange peel. Aftertaste: sugar, bready yeast, lots of orange peel, slightly metallic.

bottle at kulminator. 2001 vintage pours brown , very dark with a red glow. good white fading head smells like a coockie at grandma’s . so old, so good... low carbo ( age? ) is definetly a good thing ! taste is sweet, dugary , very slowly fades to vanilla, of all things . vanilla becomes very strong in the late aftertaste. that is intresting !

33cl bottle courtesy of sebletitje that pours deep copper with plugs of sediment that dropped out of the bottle right at the start (stored on its side likely) supporting a short lived tan head of foam. The modest aroma offers up a light brown sugar coated ripe red apple, some apple skin and faint muted and even musty yeastiness. The taste has brown sugar and crisp red apples as well as prunes and dates with a moderate degree of sharpness seemingly coming from the yeast and a bit of a drying tannin quality.

330ml bottle. Pours dark brown with a small head, full of floaties. Aroma iswoody raisin malt with some caramel. Taste is a bit watery, mostly just raisin malt.

Brown 33cl bottle, best before March 2012, poured into a Westmalle chalice in October 2011, mid afternoon (I’m off work: sick). Usually I’d question anyone who said a beer doesn’t look good in a Westmalle chalice, however this doesn’t: huge amounts of sediment flew out the bottle with some larger bits sat in the tan coloured head, they actually look like hop leaves in the head: is this beer dry hopped I wonder? Anyway the rest of the sediment bits are floating around slowly settling as I write this. The body of the beer is dark ruby red, but not bright at the edges like most Belgian browns/dubbels. Chocolate malts in the nose, I was expecting a vinegarous explosion in my nasal passage, thankfully it didn’t smell like the impression it gave. Strange taste, sweet and sour at the same time, wish I’d read some other reviews before starting this one, is my bottle off? I’ve had it about two years and cooled it overnight for todays tasting. So sweet and sour dark chocolate with some liquorice giving it some bite is what I got. The sourness faded away as the beer warmed, or I might have got used to it after 15 minutes of slowly sipping as the sediment sank down the chalice producing a deep blanket on the bottom. I even went off and made a ham sandwich hopeing the beer would settle while I was away. I actually liked it, it grew on me as it warmed and the sediment sank. First impressions count, but to be fair it tasted fine and if I see another bottle I’ll try it again to see if my bottle really was iffy.