Dark Night Rises
Twisted Barrel Ale in Coventry, West Midlands, England 🏴
Belgian Style - Dubbel Regular|
Score
6.56
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A spiced belgian Dubbel, ideal for the dark winter months. Made with a blend of Belgian malts, lightly spiced with allspice and fermented with a blend of yeast strains, this is an intensely fruity, spicy brew.
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can from the Low Cost Beer online shop. Pours hazy orange with a thick white head. Aromas of light spice, red fruit. Taste is more spice, sweet caramel, tea. Dry finish.
Tried
on 02 Feb 2026
at 14:09
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Can thanks to allmyvinyl.
Appearance - amber and cloudy. Thin off-white head.
Nose - candy sugar and apple. Some banana esters and sweet wood spices.
Taste - banana and apple with toffee and then it dries into a bitter wood note.
Palate - light to medium bodied, sweet and then very bitter.
Overall - nose better than taste.
Appearance - amber and cloudy. Thin off-white head.
Nose - candy sugar and apple. Some banana esters and sweet wood spices.
Taste - banana and apple with toffee and then it dries into a bitter wood note.
Palate - light to medium bodied, sweet and then very bitter.
Overall - nose better than taste.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Feb 2026
at 13:55
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
can at ashs ...deep red copper ...small white head ..soft sweet caramel toffee fruit nose ...soft sweet caramel toffee ..Light dry fizz malts ...long dry bitter
Tried
on 02 Feb 2026
at 13:50
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
440ml can @ 6%. Cloudy amber with big off-white fluffy head; certainly looks the part. That banana like creamy yeast note is very evident in the aroma with quite a bit of allspice. Toasty malts, quite sweet, spices, banana and light bitterness. Medium bodied, slightly chewy. Its a good attempt at the Belgium style, quite tasty although at 6% its almost like a session-dubbel!
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A nice english twist on the style. Maybe a touch of ginger, but it meshes well with the yeast driven flavors. GBBF Winter
Tried
on 06 Feb 2020
at 14:49
7/10
Tried at BeerHeadz Lincoln. At 6.5%. Hazy amber colour with a white head. Aroma has spice and banana. Taste light spice sweet malty. Full body.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2018
at 20:46
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg at Mr Foleys Cask Ale House, shared with ManVsBeer. Hazy amber coloured body, filmy layer, minimal lacing. Aroma of dried fruits. Mixed taste of apricot and toffee, rather jam-like. Sweet malty-fruity end with a touch of yeast. Satisfying. (Leeds 06.07.2017).
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Jul 2017
at 03:30
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Keg @ Mr Foleys, Leeds. Amber with a glow and a thin head. Has a heavy bubble-gum sweetness evident in both aroma and taste.
Tried
on 16 Jul 2017
at 07:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at the Twisted Barrel tap room, 04/02/17. Light hazed on an amber pour with a generous off white head. Nose is candied fruit peel, spice, cinnamon, French toast, brown sugar. Taste comprises candy floss, biscuit, toffee, white peppery spice, clove, fruit loaf. Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a lick of alcohol. Decent Belgian affair.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2017
at 09:29
8/10
Tried
on 04 Feb 2017
at 15:09