Deep dark brown coloured body with a pretty thin tan head, only showing a centimetre or two above the 80 per cent opaque deep dark brown body. Aroma of super artificial and sweet caramel notes with a ton of sugars noticeable here showing the lactose, cream and especially the caramelised sugars and toffee. Medium-bodied; Very sweet and super artificially flavoured caramel drives this flavour with a good deal of malts for support, but the caramel shows fake and odd, while being very sweet with little else aside from some light lactose, vanilla and cream. Aftertaste shows a lot of the malts with only a dash of graininess to couple with the significant sugars here and ending with a lot of earthiness, but the fake caramel is by far the strongest. Overall, a decent enough beer that is good, especially if you like caramel candy and the artificial sweetness that goes well with a 'caramel coffee' or something similar, but this is a bit contrived as executed here for the beer, but not a bad beer by any means. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Total Wine in Laurel, Maryland on 13-December-2022 for US$4,49 sampled on the streets of New York, New York with my wife and my kids on 15-January-2023.

16 ounce can. Cloudy, yellow gold color. Frothy white head. Bready malt aroma hints at fresh pineapple and citrus peel. Flavor follows nose. Big pineapple and citrus notes throughout. Hints of sticky pine and mint on backend. Tasty.

16 ounce can. Number one with a bullet. Slightly hazy medium gold color. Large frothy beige head. Fragrant tropical fruit aroma. Flavor is sweet tangerine, pineapple, mango and lemon zest. Bittersweet citrus and pine on backend.

$2.xx 12oz bottle from Total Wine Vegas. Clearance sale on 15% braggots? Sure. 10oz glass back at the hotel. Hazy, lemon iced-tea, stiff off-white head. Smell is simple toast, tea, floral hops. Taste is sweet tea, earth, minor Belgian yeasty notes, some berry acidity but no blueberries till a flash at the end. Quite bitter breakfast cereal, big acidity & Aspirin on the finish. Obviously big, very starchy & strong ale-like. Nah.

Pencil shavings, orange nose. Clear copper, medium head, little retention. Wood, apricot, pencil shavings. Medium body, easy carbonation.

A style I like considerably, bought a 12 oz bottle of Abbey Dubbel the first I saw one since dubbels are so hard to turn up. Pulling the cap before tilting inside of my ABGB snifter. The view is a dense brown body with a here-and-gone skim of taupe foam. I find the nose to be a bit unusual. Dark fruit, malt, ash and earth. Fortunately the drink is an improvement. Ripe plums, malt, toast and a bare touch of caramel. Rather thin for a dubbel. Not bad but far from what I hoped.

Raspberry, cherry, lime nose. Hazy golden, thin head, little retention. Dry cranberry, lemon. Light body, easy carbonation.

Grapefruit and tangerine. Medium malt body. Bitter and tangy finish with some booze. Can.