Malty, Belgian yeast, sweet, caramel, alcohol

(Bottle, 0.33 l - BB 16.11.2016, from Sip Tartu, 20170906) The beer poured brown and clear . Its head was medium sized, fizzy and white. Aroma had malts, brown sugar, fruitiness and berries. Palate was medium bodied with high carbonation. Flavours were malts, brown sugar, grass, Belgian style yeast and bitterness. Aftertaste had sweetness, Belgian style yeast and bitterness. A nice dubbel. The fizzy palate and light berry notes lowered the drinkability.

33cl bottle from SIP veini- ja õllepood, Tallinn. Pours deep amber close to copper coloured with a rather modest off-white head. Malty and caramelly aroma with spicy notes and hints of dried fruits, vanilla and alcohol. Sweet, but still fairly balanced. Quite pleasant and rather dessert.

330ml bottle, from trade with jinroh! Many thanks. Pours clear deep amber with a sensible off-white head. Aroma is light vanilla and mild caramel dubbel esters. Taste is quite smooth and light, yet still rather delicious. Not as rich and sweet as, say, La Trappe Dubbel and arguably all the better for it. Vanilla influence seems to be quite breezy and blends in with the caramel flavours well. An enjoyable easy-drinking dubbel.

Pours quite nice reddish amber, not much foam to speak of but still some. Aroma has some Belgian candy sugar, and recognisable prickly vanilla. I admit, I have never really understood dubbels, but I guess this is not a traditional one but with some added twist. Taste is dominated by this vanilla, I am not really sure that I like it but as an experiment, I guess this is not bad, vanilla does blend with that candy sugar character that many Belgian beers have. It is sweet but not too much so, warming and would work as a great winter beer. Unfortunately, in Estonia it was 10 degrees Celsius outside today, so it doesn’t seem like a real winter would come any time soon... Aftertaste lingers bitterly and succumbs into some vanilla-added bitterness. As time passes with this beer, I start liking it more.

Bottle, BB 15.11.2016. Pours brown with huge beige head. The head stays for some time. The aroma is alcohol, sweet, malt, caramel, some carrot like notes. Flavor is very sweet, malt, caramel, vanilla, alcohol, some cocoa powder. Finish is sweet with some alcohol. Overall: ok, got a lot better as it warmed up.