Magus, linnaseline, puuviljane, nats räpane, veits kummine. Okish

Caramel, old toffee, herbal, alcohol, Belgian yeast, straw

Slight gushing to huge cream-amber head over hazy red-brown beer, quite lively carbonated. Vegetable, woody and fruity esters. Sweet smelling, liquorice. Dry, spicy, chocolate and some woody notes. Rootspices, scorza nera. Rather well-bodied, slick, smooth, the creamy head helping. Uber-classical dubbel. Good point: one that expressly admits the liquorice.

Bottlw from dranken geers. Another brewing company from Belgium making a triple and a double... when will it ever stop ? Anyway they also have a saison, so huray for that. Pours intensely red shining copperbrown. Medium but stable white, rather creamy head. Smell is sweet, fruity . Mild candy notes even . Not the typical banana esters. Bit red fruit, even. Taste is sharp, rather bitter, bit metallic , dark bread, mild red fruityness, ester style fruits but different than the regular banana kind. Medium thin body, medium carbo. Toasty ending , a tad too intense i'd say, but at least the overly Intense feature is a pleasant one. All and all a pretty well made, attypical double. Not sure about this being really in style, but at least its well made. Only a slight metallic note was perceived. If that would be removed, the beer would benefit from it and become even better.

F: medium size, tan to tanned, quick gone. C: brown, hazy, opaque. A: malty, light fruity, bit mellow cherries, red fruits, bit “woody”. T: light chocolate, bit fruity, cocoa, dry on the palate, bit cherries, medium body and carbonation, for me good balanced, and enjoyed, sample @ Winters Bier Festival 2017 in Waregem.

28/07/2017 @home - 33cl bottle shared by jerre. Very light colour for a dubbel. Kind of clear dark amber, light tanned head. Nose is dark malts, caramel, sweet. Taste is dark malts, caramel, hints of roast, dry ending. Not that overly sweet as lots of other dubbels (and less than the nose). Classic styles yes, but this is next to Hoppegeluk a second beer in a classical style I tried which was less sweet than normally.

Bottle from Geers. Cloudy brown colour, nose of caramel, cocoa powder, roasted malts, ripe plums. Taste is sweet with some roastiness and caramel. Not too sweet, enough bitterness. Not a bad Dubbel.

Dubbel in the first series of beers from this new brewery near Wetteren in Eastern Flanders; if I understood their website correctly, this brewery will produce three series of three beers, but only the first series has materialized now, under the moniker In the Name of the Father - referring to traditions and resulting in a dubbel, a tripel and a blond intended as a saison. I hope the second series, In the Name of the Son, referring to ’new’ beer styles, will produce more exciting concepts - what then the third series, In the Name of the Holy Spirit, will bring, remains unclear to me for now. The brewery fits in a larger concept of artisanal beverages (also including wine, sake and pastis) made in the Heilig Hart-church of Kwatrecht, hence the name, but haven’t we had our share of religious connotations in Belgian beer history by now? Anyway: fairly thick, egg-white head, dense and moussy but eventually breaking open in the middle, over an immediately cloudy, if not murky, peach-hued bronze-robed beer, not as dark or brown as one would expect from something called ’dubbel’. Aroma of fermenting plums, soggy brown bread, banana, ginger powder, caramel, overripe peaches, dry liquorish candy (with actual liquorish effectively used here, mind you), potato soup, cloves and other spicy phenols, a hint of manure (FFF), soggy apple cake, moist white pepper, sweat. Estery onset, a bit disorderly and ’dirty’, banana for sure but not exagerratedly so, sweetish and (more) sourish, hints of peach, ripe pear and dito gooseberry, medium carbonated, with minerally side notes and a soft, fluffy mouthfeel. Malty core of soggy brown bread, sweetish cereals and a hint of caramel, while the wild and rather ’untidy’ array of fruity esters rules above, pairing up with an overload of spicy phenols (cloves) which are so tightly mingled with the added liquorish that it becomes hard to tell which spiciness comes from the actual spice and which comes from phenolic yeast effects. Ends expectedly very earthy, dirty and estery, with very bready and malty ’sogginess’ being dried by an admittedly fair amount of spicy, leafy hop bitterness, clearly more so than usual for a dubbel, drying the back. Some warming alcohol too - something I do not tend to expect from a below 7% beer, but it does accentuate the spiciness of both the liquorish and the hops in an admittedly quite pleasant, bit peppery way. I’m intrigued by the concept of this Heilig Hart (Sacred Heart, a common name for churches here in catholic Belgium): their webshop sells beers from, among others, Baird and Barbera as well, weirdly so, since their own brews probably all pale in comparison with those names. This ’dubbel’ reminds me a lot of old Wallonian spice beers doubting between styles and making use of spices: dirty and very earthy, overly spicy and ’untidy’ from a technical point of view; a murky look from the first pour is never a good sign, even in beer styles which are intended to look cloudy (think witbier or NEIPA). A Belgian dubbel should even look as good as clear if properly poured without the sediment and that clearly went wrong here; the overdosis of spicy phenols and the ’wild’ stewed fruit-like esters are usually consistent with this appearance and that is no difference here. I consequently cannot give this a high score for appearance here, but since the subscores are apparently no longer shown - could be an ominous sign but I hope I’m wrong - this will make no difference to anyone reading this review... In conclusion: enjoyable in all, spicy, more bitter and paler than average for a dubbel, but technically not well-executed with murky looks and certain off-flavours, and conceptually way out of date (reminiscent of Belgian beers I had fifteen or more years ago - apparently it remains very difficult to direct the Belgian consumer towards the current international trends, but that’s another issue). I hope they manage to acquire a higher level of technical skills before they embark on their Name of the Son or Name of the Holy Spirit adventures.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Heilig Hart in de Naam van de Vader Dubbel (by Heilig Hart Brouwerij):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

14/IV/17 - 33cl bottle shared by the brewer @ home - BB: III/2019 (2017-443) Thanks to Hans for sharing the bottle!

Clear deep orange to light amber beer, creamy dens off-white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, caramel, sweet touch. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: slightly sweet start, caramel, some chocolate, slightly bitter. Aftertaste: fruity notes, some dried fruits, pretty bitter, caramel.