Lost and Found
(has 5 batches)

(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of Storm. Pours a clear, amber golden with a tall, dense, off-white head leaving some lacework. Aroma of yeast and roasted malt. Quite a full body with sweetish, roasted malt and lots of fruit. Dry and alcoholic finish. 290607

Bottled, thanks cquiroga! Cloudy nut brown, average head. Caramelly nose. Sweet and fairly soft with medium body. Mild and spritzy, fruity and lightlyestery. So melon and metal shows up as well. Stays shy of being overpowering and cloying, and is instead mild and laid back. Somehow the flavour doesn’t really cover the whole mouth as in the best Belgian ales.

Bottled. Hazy amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is sour fruits, nuts and slight caramel. Flavour is caramel, nuts, some alcohol and a bit of licorace. A very smoothly and pleasantly balanced brew.

Bottled 75 cl
Hazy nut brown color, small brownish head. Caramel, yeast and fresh vegetables in the nose. Quite alcoholic, feels even higher than 7 %. Caramelly-toffeish, some hops, loads of yeast there. This beer has lost its soul on the way, but drinkable it is.

Fully opaque brown under short-lived brown-yellow head. Creamy rich nose, even whiffs of blue cheese. Burnt malts and roasted nuts (Pecan/Brasil/...) Som dark candy sugar. Don’t get raisins in the nose, but some alcohol & higher alcohols. Dry dark beer, woody, very malty with overtones of roasted & burnt malts. Quite some sweetness in the basis, but always under the heavy roasted notes. Some musky, animal-like flavour mixing in. Nutty as well, again. Very well bodied. Nice, and original... not a real drinking beer, however - bit too potent. I find it strange to find so few fruity elements in it, as it seems to have been the object. Thanks to brewboy, anyway!

Bottled. An unclear orange-brown beer with a rim of orange head. The aroma is sweet malty with quite strong notes of hops, while the flavor is sweet malty with notes of spices, straw, and hops. Not very Belgian.

Draught @ Port Brewing, San Marcos. Pours a dark brown color with a small tan head. Sweet malty and slightly yeasty aroma. Some hints of dark fruits. Sweet malty yeasty flavor with hints of caramel and dark fruits. The finish is malty with some yeasty and spicy hints.

2006 bottle drunk on 2/3/07
Terrific presentation. Deep auburn-tinted mahogany body shows a medium to medium-high clarity, leaving the unfiltered sediment behind. Beige head is large, rocky and well-retained, leading to much lacing down the glass.
Light phenols, dark fruit esters and gentle, sweet, pale malts all come off very subtley, as the barest hint of roast (chocolate malt) creeps in on the edges. A fair amount of breadiness and a definite hard candy-like feel from the crystal malt, which works against the softness, but gives light (and dry) toffee/caramel notes that seem apt for the style. I don’t get much raisin, neither from the actual raisins nor the special B, but that’s fine, as there shouldnt be a prominent note of it anyways. Rather, it is all much more homogenous, with prunes, raisins, and date notes all blending together to give a stickiness that also helps keep the crystal malt from creating too hard an aroma. Black pepper phenolics and just a brushstroke of clove/banana dot the finish, while a touch of alcohol heat is notable upon warming. I really like the grain bill here, though I don’t usually like crystal malts. But they add enough assertiveness to what would otherwise be too soft and possibly mushy.
Concord grapes, chocolate-covered cherries and vanilla cream-like malt sweetness all burst forth in the flavor and then scatter, leaving light peppery phenols, dry crystal malt and hints of roast. Really nice attenuation, being lightly sweet, and very chewy, but also dry enough to be able to drink it quite quenchingly. Yeast dosent pump out much clove, fusel or bananas, which is always appreciated and the carbonation is very tight and engaging. Piquant dark fruits stick to the palate and linger on the finish, being contrasted to black pepper-like dryness and dry toffee/caramel notes. Very complex dubbel. I really like the chewiness and almost waxy-smooth yeast/crystal malt synergy combined with the fruity special b. Reminds me, in some ways, of Westy 8 (though the overall flavors are much different). Maybe a bit on the sweet side overall.

Pours deep ruby mahogany into a trappist glass. Offwhite medium head with excellent retention leaves no lacing as it slowly recedes. Fig and apricot aromas. Lively with upfront pit fruit and a dry, lasting candi finish.

Bottle from cquiroga, sampled with badnewsbeers. Fiery orange-brown body, thin tan head, strong carbonation. Aroma of toffee and toast with big esters, including clove and cinnamon. Floral, with notes of sweet fruit juice. The strongest characteristic of the body is its intense, sharp carbonation, which makes each sip feel like the beer is foaming up. But, what a beer. Rich complexity imparted by plum, toast, chalky esters (clove, etc.), cinnamon, and chocolate. Warming alcohol is present and adds to the intrigue. This is a top-notch Dubbel.