Belgian Dubbel
Tree Brewing Co.
- From:
- Tree Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Dubbel
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 6.59%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 03, 2016
- Added:
- Oct 04, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
Formerly Trappist Artist.
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Reviewed by DanfromVan from Canada (BC)
4.23/5 rDev +16.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev +16.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Poured swiftly into a very large Tempelier Tulip which I got s a Christmas gift Pac and has become my go to beer glass. Nice.
Thin head, slight lace, and a rapidly evaporating CO2 structure makes this a quick quaff.
There is a thinness to the beer which makes it quite acceptable as a go to sporting beer. If they offered this in the stands of the hockey rink, it would be a huge hit. Light and tasty, with a few hints of dough and candy, but without the 9-11% ABV of a true Belgian and this is good.
I am repeatedly stuck with the choice of a lighter rice beer choice at 4.5 ABV or going for a Belgian Blast at 9-11% when I am out socializing. With this beer I am can actually have two bottles before I blow above .08% and get a 30 day driving suspension...So this might become a beer of choice for me to bring when I go out visiting in the rainforest.
Lots of breweries advertise a Belgian style, this is one of the few who deliver.
As an at home delectable brew, I would likely go a bit stronger with a Grande Reserve 17 or St Bernardus 12 (special order through the BCLCB of a 24 pac for roughly $100.00)
Would go again.unfortunately only available through their 24 pac sampler.
Love my Belgian dubbels and tripels, so this has echoes of both, without the penalty.
Jan 31, 2016Thin head, slight lace, and a rapidly evaporating CO2 structure makes this a quick quaff.
There is a thinness to the beer which makes it quite acceptable as a go to sporting beer. If they offered this in the stands of the hockey rink, it would be a huge hit. Light and tasty, with a few hints of dough and candy, but without the 9-11% ABV of a true Belgian and this is good.
I am repeatedly stuck with the choice of a lighter rice beer choice at 4.5 ABV or going for a Belgian Blast at 9-11% when I am out socializing. With this beer I am can actually have two bottles before I blow above .08% and get a 30 day driving suspension...So this might become a beer of choice for me to bring when I go out visiting in the rainforest.
Lots of breweries advertise a Belgian style, this is one of the few who deliver.
As an at home delectable brew, I would likely go a bit stronger with a Grande Reserve 17 or St Bernardus 12 (special order through the BCLCB of a 24 pac for roughly $100.00)
Would go again.unfortunately only available through their 24 pac sampler.
Love my Belgian dubbels and tripels, so this has echoes of both, without the penalty.
Reviewed by Harry_C_Peters from Canada (MB)
3.82/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.82/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
A fabulous bold hybrid. Colorfully ruby, the head cast a darker shadow when a glass is held to the light. Maybe being a bit watery feeling is a flaw, but I love the flavor. Nice legs, if you think that's important, too.
Jan 06, 2016
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.52/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
I was quite excited to see this in the Tree mixer pack I tracked down for the holidays. It's a great name for a style that I'm somewhat undecided about. The look, smell, and taste promise bready sweetness and for the most part, this beer delivers. It is a pleasant brew, one that I will keep around for folks who like to try something a little different.
Dec 23, 2015
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.53/5 rDev -3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev -3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
The biggest question this beer raised for me: have I been pronouncing "trappist" wrong all this time? Because the only way the pun in the name of this beer even remotely works is if it's pronounced "trapp-ee-szt".
Anyway. Pours a dark, cola-ish colour. Surprisingly little head, even with an aggressive pour (something it has in common with the other unfiltered offerings from Tree?). Smell is candied sugar, Belgian yeast. Plums, prunes, dark fruits, esters, a touch rum-like. Molasses, brown sugar. Taste is much the same: very sweet, not much in the way of balancing hops, and a pretty syrupy, candied body.
It's drinkable and nice and sweet but--as my girlfriend put it--"it's just too much." Too sweet, too syrupy, and would benefit from some more malt and hopping to balance out the fruitiness of the Belgian yeast and the sweetness of the candi sugar.
Dec 10, 2015Anyway. Pours a dark, cola-ish colour. Surprisingly little head, even with an aggressive pour (something it has in common with the other unfiltered offerings from Tree?). Smell is candied sugar, Belgian yeast. Plums, prunes, dark fruits, esters, a touch rum-like. Molasses, brown sugar. Taste is much the same: very sweet, not much in the way of balancing hops, and a pretty syrupy, candied body.
It's drinkable and nice and sweet but--as my girlfriend put it--"it's just too much." Too sweet, too syrupy, and would benefit from some more malt and hopping to balance out the fruitiness of the Belgian yeast and the sweetness of the candi sugar.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
355ml bottle, part of the current Tree mixed pack of 'unfiltered dry hopped' brews. And 'Not all traditions are boring'? Well, no shit.
This beer pours a near-clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves a bit of land bridge arch lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of semi-sweet, doughy caramel malt, muddled and bruised dark orchard fruit (ok, some plums and bananas, mostly), an uncertain holiday spice stripe, earthy yeast, a sort of musty dry bitterness, and some ethereal booze esters. The taste is lightly toasted caramel malt, a sharp buttery biscuit thing, an understated black fruitiness, wan yeast, faint gritty spice, and earthy hops that possess but a mere halo of metallic alcohol astringency hovering about them.
The bubbles are pretty laid-back in their timid and only sometimes probing frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and smooth enough, I suppose, with little to no middling interference here. It finishes well off-dry, the caramel and fruitiness doing well to linger, almost entirely by their lonesome.
A simple, if earnestly rendered version of the venerable style, the sweet tooth-enabling nature of it all nothing without a bit of counterbalance, either in bitterness, or in nuance. Easy to drink, sure, but not something that can run with the better Low Countries examples (Trappist or otherwise) readily available out there.
Oct 04, 2015This beer pours a near-clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves a bit of land bridge arch lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of semi-sweet, doughy caramel malt, muddled and bruised dark orchard fruit (ok, some plums and bananas, mostly), an uncertain holiday spice stripe, earthy yeast, a sort of musty dry bitterness, and some ethereal booze esters. The taste is lightly toasted caramel malt, a sharp buttery biscuit thing, an understated black fruitiness, wan yeast, faint gritty spice, and earthy hops that possess but a mere halo of metallic alcohol astringency hovering about them.
The bubbles are pretty laid-back in their timid and only sometimes probing frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and smooth enough, I suppose, with little to no middling interference here. It finishes well off-dry, the caramel and fruitiness doing well to linger, almost entirely by their lonesome.
A simple, if earnestly rendered version of the venerable style, the sweet tooth-enabling nature of it all nothing without a bit of counterbalance, either in bitterness, or in nuance. Easy to drink, sure, but not something that can run with the better Low Countries examples (Trappist or otherwise) readily available out there.
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