Monastère Double

clear brown, light brown/grayish head.
looks like a very light porter, more brown and more dark than at least some doubles. looks more like a quad. dried dark fruity aroma, slighlty malty - matls are fruity and rounded, not sweet and toffee like - nice fruity notes throughout without going aritificial or weird. notes of belgian yeast. very finer notes of tobacco or ashes or charred wood. quite surprisingly nice aroma for something i found in the supermarket at a low price.
Flavor is dark dried fruits, banana, faint tobacco or ashes - not at all as great as aroma but stil very decent and not as sweet as many cheap double's can be. pretty solid and drinkable yet fairly true to style supermarket discount double.

Bottle, dark brown, small head. Aroma is sweet, malt, caramel, darker fruit. Taste is the same, sweet, malt, caramel, fruit, bittersweet. Ok

Dark brown, fast fading tan head. Nose of dark fruit. Candi sugar, plums and some Belgian yeast as it warms. Smooth and easy drinking but has very poor head retention

Can, 6.4%. Weak bready and metallic aroma. Clear dark brown colour. Good stable plasticky light brown head. The flavour is watery with a mild spicy sugar note. Dark sugar. Mild notes of dark bread.

500 ml can. Pours a reddish brown with full head. Aromas of caramel malts, candi sugar, and fruity Belgian yeast. Flavors of follow same though more muted with additional dark fruit and emphasis on malts. Malty and sweet but overall an OK Belgian Brune.

OK, the part I don't understand is that my can says produit du france, with a note about the Moroccan importer. This is absolutely a late night hotel swill in Casablanca before catching the early bus to Fez kind of beer. But I bought it in Moncton. There are no buses from Moncton to Fez. I mean, I didn't look but it's a reasonable assumption. Really nothing about this being a Dutch beer on my can. And United Dutch Breweries is one of the world's foremost purveyors of Indian-style malt liquor, a style I waxed poetic about earlier this very evening. Of course the can also says traditional golden abbey beer when it is labeled as a double and is dark brown like a dubbel. Sloppy QA on the old graphic design there. Gotta QA the copy, too; you can't trust designers with that. Good opportunity to use my Leffe glass, though. Backstory aside, this is dark brown, with a thin head. This has a heavy brown sugar note, with a fair bit of plummy fruitiness. A touch of acidity in the finish alongside the esters, but it's still more on the creamy/sugary side of the style. Presents clean, if simple, no off-notes, and it's not yeasty. It's fine.

20/X/24 - 75cl bottle from Lidl (NL) @ home, BB: 16/XII/24 5, P: 16/6/23 08 (2024-1143)

Clear dark brown beer, small creamy dense beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: yeasty, banana, some caramel, lots of banana, a hint of chocolate. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, lots and lots of bitter banana peel, soapy, caramel, some coriander, gentle roast, a bit sourish, sugary sweetness. Aftertaste: some chocolate, pretty bitter, soapy, spicy, more banana, sugary, caramel, ok. Not very good, but decent enough, especially for a commercial Lidl beer.

Fles 75cl thuis gedeeld. Caramel, wat chocolade, jam, rood fruittonen, redelijk zoet, wat basterdsuiker, melasse. (7-9-2024).