Double Port

Bottle. Pours hazy dark ruby brown with airy light tan head. Clear aroma of fruit and malt, with notes of caramel and raisins and touches of yeast and hops. Sweetish flavour of malt and caramel, with notes of fruit and bitter, hoppy touches and hints of nuts. Bitterish, roasty aftertaste with nutty and fruity hints. Warming alcohol presence. Decent.

(Bottle, 0.33 l - BB 09/12/17, at Stadin Panimobaari, 20150705) The beer poured clear and nearly black. Its head was medium sized and nearly white. Aroma had caramel, chocolate and port wine. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were malts, sweetness, aniseed, Belgian style yeast and bitterness. Aftertaste was sweet, malty and bitter. A decent malty brew.

33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ Plus, Culemborg. Dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is very malty with roasted malts,red fruits and, yes, some port. Taste is sweet with some bitterness. Finish is long and quite vinous. Normally I’m not a big fan of port, too sweet for my taste, but mixed with a good beer it’s a great combination.

donker bruin net schuimige bruine kraag welke snel slinkt. aroma is wat beperkt; licht notig, port, mout en zoetig. smaken zijn redelijk tot vol, romig en kleverig in de mond, de co2 is echter iets té prikkelend en te hoog aanwezig, port is ook goed aanwezig, vind deze véél beter dan de espresso, donkere fruiten van pruim/rozijn, redelijk zoetig, koffie, tevens wat noterig in de afdronk die overigens vrij lang is... ja hoor goed te doen.

Port barrel aged Scotch-style Belgian ale, also tasted as Broeder Jacob Winterklokje - which in turn is the same as Broeder Jacob Kerstklokje. Yellowish light beige, stable head over a dark, hazy ruby red beer. Aroma of chocolate and nuts, meat broth, cinnamon, brown bread, dates, pear, cognac, blackcurrant, coffee powder, port wine, some vague tannins, iron but not too disturbing. Fruity taste, candied sweetish, peach, red berries, caramelly, nutty and chocolatey malt sweetness, smooth and full mouthfeel, some spicy accents, leafy and somewhat peppery hops in the finish as well as some warming port-like alcohol and a roasted bitter coffee touch. Rich and enjoyable ’massieve ale’ (rather than a dubbel) which ages well too (three year old sample showed light notes of maderisation and had lost surprisingly little of its body and complexity).

Bottle 75 cl. Comes as "Broeder Jacob Double Port". Pours a murky opaque, dark brown with a fizzy, dissipating head. Nose is strangely metallic with some cough syrup. Sweet, rich body dominated by dark, dried and overripe fruit - bordering noble rot. Rustic, but goes down alright. Little heavy on the carbonation. 160914