2 Turtle Doves: Orange Peel & Spices
(has 2 batches)
The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Series|
Score
7.46
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Belgian-style ale brewed with orange peel and spices
A delicious new take on an old favorite, 2 Turtle Doves is a dark Belgian ale with enough spices to get you through the holiday season. Ginger, cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg warm the palate, and bitter orange peel adds the perfect balance for a complex, savory ale. Share it over a meal or use it for a toast; this seasonal ale is a celebration in itself.
A delicious new take on an old favorite, 2 Turtle Doves is a dark Belgian ale with enough spices to get you through the holiday season. Ginger, cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg warm the palate, and bitter orange peel adds the perfect balance for a complex, savory ale. Share it over a meal or use it for a toast; this seasonal ale is a celebration in itself.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at ash's pours deep amber, nose is caramel, fig, citrus, cinnamon, ginger, taste is spiced, caramel, berries, bitter citrus, slightly cloying in the finish. 8/8/8/8/7
Tried
on 12 May 2026
at 06:40
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Stuu. Pours clear dark brown with a thick beige head. Aromas of treacle, orange, spice. Taste is more of the same. Bit clovey for me.
Tried
on 11 May 2026
at 13:37
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Stuu.
Appearance - opaque dark brown with an orange chink at the bottom of the glass.
Nose - dried orange, cinnamon and clove.
Taste - cake, dried peel and Christmas spices.
Palate - medium bodied, sweet and spicy.
Overall - decent.
Appearance - opaque dark brown with an orange chink at the bottom of the glass.
Nose - dried orange, cinnamon and clove.
Taste - cake, dried peel and Christmas spices.
Palate - medium bodied, sweet and spicy.
Overall - decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2026
at 13:33
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark amber colour with small head.Aroma of orange peel and earth nice smooth warming mouth feels and not of caramel and malt sweet we'll balanced and mild finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
Amager Bryghus Taproom Bryggen
on 13 Feb 2026
at 13:22
8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Sample at Palace Hall 13/12/2025 Malmö December tasting - (2024 vintage) Sweet and toasted with notes of fudge and caramel,some citrus peel and nice spices into the lingering malty spiced close.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2025
at 18:04
8.3/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
I have a 12.7 oz bottle on this sampling. Lightly cooled, this one is going inside of my favored Trappistes Rochefort glass. Fragrant nose, there is dried fruit, grain, malt and candi sugar. The taste, well it is pretty fine, tough competition in the universe of quadrupels. It follows the classic taste of the style. Dates, bread, malt, a hint of black raisins, caramel, citrus peel, perhaps some clove and a bare bit of red cherries. Interesting beer. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
at
The Bruery
on 28 Sep 2025
at 00:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Monthly Beer Share, Chez Sophie in Shrewsbury; 27th February 2023, five guys who love beer. Bomber (1 US Pint and 9.4 fl oz bottle), 2021 Version brought back from California by me. Loved it, every thing I like about Belgian dark style brews. Off-white head on a slightly hazed mahogany coloured body. Spiced nose and taste with a boozy sweetness that gave way to some orange like flavours in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2023
at 15:23
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
75cl bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, Feb 23. Thanks Jeremy for bringing this back from your latest California trip. Pours hazed dark brown, large off-white head. Plenty of spice going down here with ginger and brown sugar coming through nicely.. supremely well-balanced with a lovely malty base and a dark Belgian sweetness that suggests dark candy rock sugar. Christmassy feel. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2023
at 12:52