Sint Niklaas Jule Dubbel

Bottle @ Esbjerg Festival, 2009. Pours unclear amber/reddish with a small creamy head. Nose is spicy and sweet malty. Caramel, toffee, yeast and cardemum. Warmth. Medium bodied. Ok

At the Ølfestival, Esbjerg, Denmark 22-10-09. Pours murky amber with a rim of beige bubbles at the edges. Spicy aroma, in fact its quite heavily spiced in the mouth, alcohol is touch heavy handed, that said this isn’t bad stuff. A6 A3 F6 P3 Ov12 3.0

Cloudy amber with a lasting off-white head. Mild aroma of cookie spices, with a grainy malt note, some alcohol and phenolic notes in the background. The flavour is a little too muddy, sweet and slightly alcoholic - with spices, dried fruit and ripe bananas.

Cloudy deep amber with a medium off white head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel and hoppy notes. Sweet flavour with toasted malt, caramel and floral hops. Finished bitter.

Bottle. Nice head with medium duration. Color is dark amber. Aroma and taste are candy sugar fruits, alcohol, malt and yeast.

Bottle. Creamy off-white excellent mostly lasting head. Orange colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Heavy yeasty and fruity with orange notes dominating. moderate bitter nice fruity flavor. Long nice well-balanced finish. Creamy palate. Very nice christmas-beer.

Bottle 50cl @ [ Tasting by Maria ].Unclear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to light heavy yeasty, toffee, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (170608)

Bottle. Amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is fruit, caramel, malt. Flavour is sweet, caramel, roasted, dusty, cellar notes, hop. Medium body. Ordinary beer.

Bottle, trade with papsoe. The loud sound when opening the bottle made me fear it would act as a volcano, and so it did, but it was a really slow volcano, so nothing spilt. It has a hazy, amber body, with a big, diminishing beige head. The head suggests infection, with a little milky sourness, as well as nuttyness, caramel, a maltyness and sugars, as well as a little fruityness. Some dried fruits as well. From my description, it seems to be a nice, complex beer, but it’s not that nice. The sour touch drags down the score. Even though the flavor is sweet and with dried fruits, there’s some sourness trying to ruin the flavor, and there’s also some bitterness and a touch of alcohol. Some notes of green apples too, probably not wanted by the brewers. It’s next to full-bodied, and with a heavy carbonation. Quite sweet finish with bitterness, dried fruits and alcohol. I’m preety sure this beer is on it’s way to go bad, but still it’s somehow nice and pleasant. I might have rated it too high, but at the moment it felt right. (080521)