Brabantse Bio Dubbel
Het Brouwateljee in Lubbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Dubbel Regular|
Score
6.38
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Brabantse Bio Dubbel from Het Brouwateljee 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Organic dubbel by this new microbrewery in Lubbeek east of Leuven, bottle from Bier Bazaar. Pale greyish white, mousy, even somewhat creamy, membrane-lacing, thick and frothy head on a misty caramel brown beer with ruddy tinge. Aroma of hard caramel, soggy brown bread, old raisins, ripe pear, banana, coriander seed, hints of rusty iron, apple peel, bubblegum and fig. Sweet, rounded onset, rather clean with banana ester sweetness and impressions of raisin, pear and fig, fizzily carbonated, sleek mouthfeel, a bit resinous; caramel candy- and raisin bread-like middle with this brown honey- or indeed candi sugar-like sweetness remaining without becoming cloying. Coriander seed appears towards the finish with clear soapy effect, before a spicy, leafy hop bitterness, combined with a gentle toasted bitter touch, turns things in another direction. The sweetness remains, but the bitterness gets the last word, enhanced by a glimpse of the alcohol – which should not at all be noticeable at 7% ABV. Very typical for what small brewers in Belgium see as a dubbel these days: sweet and clean, but with that toasty bitter malt aspect you will not (or much less) find in the macro-brewed examples in this segment. Predictable and not very exciting, but admittedly well executed, like the other beers in this Brouwateljee’s range. --- Beer merged from original tick of Brouwateljee Brabantse Bio Dubbel on 10 Mar 2021 at 14:39 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: Organic dubbel by this new microbrewery in Lubbeek east of Leuven, bottle from Bier Bazaar. Pale greyish white, mousy, even somewhat creamy, membrane-lacing, thick and frothy head on a misty caramel brown beer with ruddy tinge. Aroma of hard caramel, soggy brown bread, old raisins, ripe pear, banana, coriander seed, hints of rusty iron, apple peel, bubblegum and fig. Sweet, rounded onset, rather clean with banana ester sweetness and impressions of raisin, pear and fig, fizzily carbonated, sleek mouthfeel, a bit resinous; caramel candy- and raisin bread-like middle with this brown honey- or indeed candi sugar-like sweetness remaining without becoming cloying. Coriander seed appears towards the finish with clear soapy effect, before a spicy, leafy hop bitterness, combined with a gentle toasted bitter touch, turns things in another direction. The sweetness remains, but the bitterness gets the last word, enhanced by a glimpse of the alcohol – which should not at all be noticeable at 7% ABV. Very typical for what small brewers in Belgium see as a dubbel these days: sweet and clean, but with that toasty bitter malt aspect you will not (or much less) find in the macro-brewed examples in this segment. Predictable and not very exciting, but admittedly well executed, like the other beers in this Brouwateljee’s range.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Clear dark reddish brown colour, beige foam. Nose of dried fruit (plums, figs), caramel, chocolate, some cocoa. Rather thin body. Medium bitter finish. Nice dubbel.
Kraddel (15810) reviewed Brabantse Bio Dubbel from Het Brouwateljee 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 3.5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
Pours a beautifull dark amber / Caramelly brown. Medium sized, relativbely unstable white head. Scent is chlorophenols (bandaid and plastic). very off. So is the taste. Sharp, bitter, touch metalic but mostly chlorophenols. Very, very off. What a dissapointement.