St. Sebastiaan Dark
Brouwerij Sterkens in Meer, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Van Den BosscheBelgian Style - Dubbel Regular
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Score
6.67
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The St. Sebastiaan Dark is a dark, medium to heavy high fermented abbey beer that tastes both sweet and bitter on the tongue. This St. Sebastiaan has a strong, sweet aroma of caramel and malt and gives you a full taste in the mouth. It is re-fermented on the jug and on the bottle by the brewery. The result is a nice, clear beer with a wonderful aroma and, for those who love it, a nice touch of yeast at the bottom of the bottle.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From the “jug”. Pours brown with a voluminous beige head that slowly settles. Aroma is overall quite mild but a bit vinous with notes of tea and caramel. Taste is mildly bittersweet with hints of toffee lingering on the tongue. Dry at the end. Body stays fairly light, carbonation is mild. Easy drinking without the complexity of some Dubbels but pleasant enough.
Tried
on 21 Nov 2018
at 17:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
500ml ceramic bottle from the Offie, Leicester. Packaging is over the top but the beer itself is rather attractive: cola brown, slightly translucent with a loose khaki head. Light nutty aroma with some liquorice and sweet spice. Sweet taste with enough of a balance to give it character. Again there’s a nutty note in the fairly short finish. Very heavily carbonated, which works for the light body. It’s a delicious drink of a style I’m fond of, although I’ve had better.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2017
at 07:17
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From old tasting notes. Sharp reddish brown color. Bubbly tan head. Faint caramel malt aroma. Fruity sweet character with a hint of yeastiness. Though it’s not complex, their is an element of intrigue to this brew. Nice subtle hop finish. Long pleasant aftertaste.
Tried
on 10 Jul 2017
at 21:33
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle shared at Cotteridge convention 05/03/2016. Thanks to Shane. A clear dark amer coloured pour with a loose white head. Aroma is dark cereal grains, papery, brown sugars, pale grains. Flavour is composed of spicy rye bread, brown sugars, little jammy fruits, papery, little oxidised. Palate is semi sweet, higjish carbonation. Not in great shape.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2017
at 15:44
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
F: huge, beige, slowly diminishing. C: dark brown, clear. A: malty, dark fruits, bit of chocolate, coffee, toffee, spicy, yeasty. T: malty, chocolate, cherries, very dry on the palate, yeasty, bit of toffee, medium body, medium to high carbonation, pretty nice, 0,5l bottle from Cora Woluwe-Saint-Lambert in Brussels.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2017
at 11:47
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
50 cl flagon served in La Trappe chalice. Pours darkest brown, almost black, with some reddish shinings. Thick, tan head vanishes quite fast. Aroma is quite low: just blackberry and blackcurrant. Fizzy, very fresh, almost no bitterness. Low persistence. Bah.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2017
at 11:17
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Sampled from an 11.2 oz brown bottle this beer poured a very dark brown color with orange highlights and a large fluffy tan head that lingered forever and left great lacing. The aroma was sweet raisin, cherry, molasses, cola and a touch of citrus. The flavor was sweet with toasty malts, caramel, molasses, bread, raisin, fig and cherry. Very long finish. Moderately full bodied. Outstanding.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2017
at 17:02
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle sourced from Toft Vin, Copenhagen, shared with the Mrs - pours dark brown with a fizzy big beige head. Sweet malty with lots of caramel and toffee notes, some dried fruit, slight yeasty character, light spices, is rather highly carbonated and has a rather harsh jarring metallic aftertaste, and looking at previous page of reviews seems like I am not the only one to experience this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2016
at 05:17
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Bottle at Cotts 2, from a stone flaggon, cheers to SHartshorne 05/03/16. Chestnut brown with a decent tan covering. Nose is light charr, toffee, dark fruit rinds. Taste comprises fruit cake, toffee, astringent bitterness, light yeast strokes. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. So so.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jun 2016
at 15:01
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Fra flaske (med kork og champagnesmell!) på DØE dag 1, sammen med Steven: brunsvart med flott beige skum som varer. Røde bær, vanilje og rom i aroma og smak. Dejlig eftersmag med karmel og røde bær.
Tried
on 25 May 2016
at 14:46