Doublé Belgian Dubble
Diebolt Brewing Company
- From:
- Diebolt Brewing Company
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Dubbel
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 09, 2014
- Added:
- Mar 09, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by spoony from Colorado
3.48/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.5
On tap at the brewery into a chalice.
A-It is dark brown with reddish highlights and some light gets through. This beer is lighter in color than many dubbels with more clarity, as well. My pour arrive with no head...just a collar of tan foam.
S-The aroma is pretty subdued. There is a good bit of raisin-scented malts here, but also an out-of-place hoppy bitterness and a porter-like whiff of cocoa. Sweetness is there, but is held back by the hop scent.
T-I could swear this was a porter! There is a heavy (for the style) flavor of cocoa and milk chocolate that mostly masks the more traditional Belgian malt flavors of raisin and prune, which lurk underneath. The stronger-than-normal hop flavor adds an odd bitterness and while this beer will not be mistaken for a black IPA, the hops are very obvious.
M-The feel is medium in heft with a nice, almost-creamy carbonation that rolls across the palate.
O-Diebolt touts this brew as a dubbel with hops and they are correct about the hops, but I'm not so sure about the dubbel part. I could have used more fruit and molasses and spice (and alcohol) in there to balance out the flavor profile a bit. Maybe I'm too traditional, but I like my dubbels sweet and spicy and boozy and this missed those marks.
Mar 09, 2014A-It is dark brown with reddish highlights and some light gets through. This beer is lighter in color than many dubbels with more clarity, as well. My pour arrive with no head...just a collar of tan foam.
S-The aroma is pretty subdued. There is a good bit of raisin-scented malts here, but also an out-of-place hoppy bitterness and a porter-like whiff of cocoa. Sweetness is there, but is held back by the hop scent.
T-I could swear this was a porter! There is a heavy (for the style) flavor of cocoa and milk chocolate that mostly masks the more traditional Belgian malt flavors of raisin and prune, which lurk underneath. The stronger-than-normal hop flavor adds an odd bitterness and while this beer will not be mistaken for a black IPA, the hops are very obvious.
M-The feel is medium in heft with a nice, almost-creamy carbonation that rolls across the palate.
O-Diebolt touts this brew as a dubbel with hops and they are correct about the hops, but I'm not so sure about the dubbel part. I could have used more fruit and molasses and spice (and alcohol) in there to balance out the flavor profile a bit. Maybe I'm too traditional, but I like my dubbels sweet and spicy and boozy and this missed those marks.
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