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Manneken-Penn
Brasserie de la Senne
- From:
- Brasserie de la Senne
- Belgium
- Style:
- Dubbel
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 13.7%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 10, 2015
- Added:
- Jun 08, 2013
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 3
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Reviewed by scottbrew4u from Pennsylvania
3.67/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Bottle aged since 2013. Poured a hazy brown color with a bubbly tan head. Head persists a long time. Aroma of dark fruits, sherry, caramelized malt and a peppery spice. Taste is rich, sweet, and layered. Many caramel, plum, chocolatey, notes all combined. Some spice in there too. Nice medium body and overall this beer aged well.
Jun 10, 2015Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.04/5 rDev +10.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev +10.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
There are times that beer is foisted upon me, rather than having to buy it. The boxes had just arrived at the release party when one was thrust at me with instructions to put it in my knapsack and take it away. I did so, brought it home, put it in my reefer and promptly forgot about it until just recently. Now is the time! Mine is also the pic that exists on this site.
From the bottle: "A collaboration brew between Chris Wilson of Weyerbacher, Tom Peters and the De La Senne Brewing Team, made especially for Philly Beer Week 2013."; "From Brussels, with love, for America's best beer-drinking city"; "Bier/Biere/Birra Doppio Malto/Cerveza/0L/Olut/Ol".
Jesus, I did not realize until I popped the cap that the bottle was brimful! I utilized a very gentle pour so as not to rouse the visible lees at the bottom of the bottle. I got a dense finger of tawny head with excellent retention for my troubles. Color was a coppery-brown (SRM = > 17, < 22) with copper highlights and NE-quality clarity. Nose had a yeasty mustiness, a honey sweetness, some fusel alcohol and a brown sugary quality. Mouthfeel was medium, but with a great effervescence. Taste began with some heat, cooling down to dried dark fruits, burnt caramel or brown sugar, and a pleasant yeast-driven spiciness. Finish was very dry, what with the heat. I had aged it for a year, but it could have gone much longer. I did not mind it, since I had no real expectations going into it. It was definitely a rich, malty Belgian beer and if that is your bag, have at it.
Jul 23, 2014From the bottle: "A collaboration brew between Chris Wilson of Weyerbacher, Tom Peters and the De La Senne Brewing Team, made especially for Philly Beer Week 2013."; "From Brussels, with love, for America's best beer-drinking city"; "Bier/Biere/Birra Doppio Malto/Cerveza/0L/Olut/Ol".
Jesus, I did not realize until I popped the cap that the bottle was brimful! I utilized a very gentle pour so as not to rouse the visible lees at the bottom of the bottle. I got a dense finger of tawny head with excellent retention for my troubles. Color was a coppery-brown (SRM = > 17, < 22) with copper highlights and NE-quality clarity. Nose had a yeasty mustiness, a honey sweetness, some fusel alcohol and a brown sugary quality. Mouthfeel was medium, but with a great effervescence. Taste began with some heat, cooling down to dried dark fruits, burnt caramel or brown sugar, and a pleasant yeast-driven spiciness. Finish was very dry, what with the heat. I had aged it for a year, but it could have gone much longer. I did not mind it, since I had no real expectations going into it. It was definitely a rich, malty Belgian beer and if that is your bag, have at it.
Reviewed by Stevedore from Oregon
3.24/5 rDev -11.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.24/5 rDev -11.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
11.2oz bottle brewed for Philly Beer Week 2013. Thanks for sending this one, John. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass today, 1/11/2014.
Pours a dark brown, mahogany body with a clearly overcarbonated head that makes pouring even this 11.2oz bottle take a while. Lots of lacing, lots of retention.
Smells fairly malty- sweet dates and figs, dark fruits, and brown sugar that's about it.
Tastes like bleah. Nothing special- sweet darker malts making me think of brown sugar and dark fruits with a dry sugary finish.
Thinner bodied, a bit watery and very disappointing for a dubbel. Drinkable, but that's all I can say about it. Carbonation settles down after a while. Aftertaste is a sweet sugariness that leaves the mouth dry.
Not that good of a dubbel. There are far better examples of the style out there than this.
Jan 12, 2014Pours a dark brown, mahogany body with a clearly overcarbonated head that makes pouring even this 11.2oz bottle take a while. Lots of lacing, lots of retention.
Smells fairly malty- sweet dates and figs, dark fruits, and brown sugar that's about it.
Tastes like bleah. Nothing special- sweet darker malts making me think of brown sugar and dark fruits with a dry sugary finish.
Thinner bodied, a bit watery and very disappointing for a dubbel. Drinkable, but that's all I can say about it. Carbonation settles down after a while. Aftertaste is a sweet sugariness that leaves the mouth dry.
Not that good of a dubbel. There are far better examples of the style out there than this.
Reviewed by tone77 from Pennsylvania
3.56/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a brown 11.2 oz. bottle. Has a cloudy dark brown color with a 1 inch head. Smell has some spices, a bit of fruit. Taste is, well, kind of hoppy for the style. Hops up front, some pine, spices, a bit bitter, some malt presence. Different, but good. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall, while not quite what I'd expect from a dubbel, is a pretty good beer.
Dec 04, 2013Reviewed by beerthulhu from New Jersey
4/5 rDev +9.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +9.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
-Collabration between Weyerbacher & De la Senne for philly beer week 2013.
A: Dirty orange on the pour yields a stable, dense, foam head of about a finger and a half. Turbid coloring has a vibrant rush of micro-effervesce while the lacing is thick with a full band offering.
S: The aroma was of fresh wet spruce, spearamint, cola, cinnamon, and sweet nutmeg. Toasty sweet caramel, oranges with a hint of candy cane. Nice complexity, sweet, with a nutmeg/cinnmaon dusting coming upon some warming.
T: Spicy, full of powdery nutmeg and cinnamon, toasted cola with a spicy bite upon first impressions. Dark cyrstal malt sweetness, munich toastedness with some anise, dry herbs, earthy tree bark, and a peppery-celery spicing as well some dry pine. Im guessing grains of paradise here? Finishes with a dry alcohol fade off the tongue.
M: Mouthful was snappy with carbonation, thick and creamy malt lush, lots of texture, spitzy bite of dry spicy alcohol fade.
O: Overall so many layers of complexity here both aromatically and flavor wise is followed up by a great mouthful garnishes this very good regards. Interesting label of a naked boy with a cowboy hat standing on penns tower pissing down on philly. As a dubbel, a big hoppy interpretation yet retains so many strong and good qualities of the old world style. Im not one for usually overating beer, but in this case, per style, feel this is a bit undermarked, very good at the least. Ive had some boring dubbels but this one was always interesting from start to finish and big in nature with a vast complexity.
Dec 03, 2013A: Dirty orange on the pour yields a stable, dense, foam head of about a finger and a half. Turbid coloring has a vibrant rush of micro-effervesce while the lacing is thick with a full band offering.
S: The aroma was of fresh wet spruce, spearamint, cola, cinnamon, and sweet nutmeg. Toasty sweet caramel, oranges with a hint of candy cane. Nice complexity, sweet, with a nutmeg/cinnmaon dusting coming upon some warming.
T: Spicy, full of powdery nutmeg and cinnamon, toasted cola with a spicy bite upon first impressions. Dark cyrstal malt sweetness, munich toastedness with some anise, dry herbs, earthy tree bark, and a peppery-celery spicing as well some dry pine. Im guessing grains of paradise here? Finishes with a dry alcohol fade off the tongue.
M: Mouthful was snappy with carbonation, thick and creamy malt lush, lots of texture, spitzy bite of dry spicy alcohol fade.
O: Overall so many layers of complexity here both aromatically and flavor wise is followed up by a great mouthful garnishes this very good regards. Interesting label of a naked boy with a cowboy hat standing on penns tower pissing down on philly. As a dubbel, a big hoppy interpretation yet retains so many strong and good qualities of the old world style. Im not one for usually overating beer, but in this case, per style, feel this is a bit undermarked, very good at the least. Ive had some boring dubbels but this one was always interesting from start to finish and big in nature with a vast complexity.
Reviewed by BEERMILER12 from Maine
3.72/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.72/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
A: Pours a cloudy reddish/pink color with a massive head that takes forever to die down
S: Belgian yeast, fruitiness, light spices, some bubblegum, and a hint of alcohol
T: Starts off with a bit of fruitiness and light spices. A big, looming bitterness lies behind that. Get some yeastiness and alcohol in there as well. Finishes with more of the lingering bitterness
M: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation
O: Really surprised by the amount of bitterness in there. Seeing as how this was brewed in collaboration with Weyerbacher for Philly Beer Week 2013, it shouldn't have been that much of a surprise but it's still a dubbel. Quite easy to drink aside from that. If you want to try a hoppy dubbel, this one will suit you just fine
Oct 17, 2013S: Belgian yeast, fruitiness, light spices, some bubblegum, and a hint of alcohol
T: Starts off with a bit of fruitiness and light spices. A big, looming bitterness lies behind that. Get some yeastiness and alcohol in there as well. Finishes with more of the lingering bitterness
M: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation
O: Really surprised by the amount of bitterness in there. Seeing as how this was brewed in collaboration with Weyerbacher for Philly Beer Week 2013, it shouldn't have been that much of a surprise but it's still a dubbel. Quite easy to drink aside from that. If you want to try a hoppy dubbel, this one will suit you just fine
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