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Bottle from bu11zeye. Pours with a light brown head and good lacing. Around 30SRM brown body. Aroma of dark fruits, followed by banana esters, cloves and yeast. Taste is yeasty with honey light citrus pleenty of dark fruits and some cloves. Creamy with light bubbles.

33 cL bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a lacing white head. Spiced and slight rubber like yeast aroma. Flavour is medium dry and distinct coriander flavoured. Light yeasty and caramelish touch too. Lingering yeasty and spiced finish, stays quite dry.

Bottle at Monk, Brussels, 25-07-08 This beer was served in an earthenware mug like the dubbel so colour was difficult to determine (appeared golden) some light fruits and spices on the nose, flavour was similar but little sweet, bit malty its fine but dressing something up by presenting it in an expensive earthenware mug (which Barry later liberated) isn’t going to make it taste any better.

Bottle at Monk, Brussels, 25-07-08 This beer was served in an earthenware mug so colour was difficult to determine (looked brown) This is a fairly simple inoffensive dubbel, quite smooth some soft candy and demarara sugar, malty and I keep coming back to the sweetness maybe a little too sweet, its ok.

Bottled. Deep hazy amber colour with small beige head. Aroma is caramel malts, alcohol and some spices and yeast. Slight notes of burnt sugar and plum too as it warms up. Flavour is sices, yeast, strong caramel malts, brown sugar as well as mild wooden notes.

Bottled. Golden colour with some small particles floating around. Small white head. Aroma is wooden, a bit sour as well as interesting bittery notes. Flavour is bittery wood with some hints of apple and grassyness. Hides the alcohol very well, making it a wellbalanced and nice refreshing brew.

33 cl bottle from Beer Planet - what a store. Clear, dark mahogany color with a fine, multifingered, tan head. Aromas of dark fruit and roasted malt - but light in each case. Medium body with coarse, creamy carbonation. It is dark fruit, it is darker roasted malt. It is also a touch of tar. Or dark treacle. There’s also some spice, perhaps even anise. Rather complex, and leaves strange flavors at the finish. It’s very good, but not quite balanced. On the other hand it is complexly tasty. Glad I tried it. Glad I didn’t get a 750 ml. Cause I’d drink it all. It’s really pleasurable to drink. Not sip.

Bottle at Les Brasseurs de la Grand Place in Brussels. Light copper gold color with a white smear for head. Light fruity (apple?) aroma. Medium body with strong prickles of carbonation - which softens to near creamy very quickly. Starts with appley fruit. Very mild bitter. Finishes rather clean and crisp. Feels good in the mouth. It is quite dry. Discussed with the server, and he opined it is very cidery.