Glarus Dubbel
Glarus Craft Brewing Co.
- From:
- Glarus Craft Brewing Co.
- Bulgaria
- Style:
- Belgian Dubbel
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.99 | pDev: 21.4%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 19, 2017
- Added:
- Nov 22, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.15/5 rDev -28.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.15/5 rDev -28.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Notes from February 2016 in Sofia:
BOTTLE: Brown glass. Simple red label. Red pry-off crown cap. 500ml format. Best by: 14.04.2016.
Purchased in Bulgaria for ~6 Leva. Served cold into a goblet and allowed to warm over the course of the review. Expectations are average given the brewery and style. Reviewed live as a dubbel per the label.
HEAD: ~1cm wide. Khaki colour. Nice creaminess and thickness, though overall the consistency isn't quite as full as it should be given the style. Retention is poor - maybe 1 minute at most. Leaves no lacing as it recedes. A darker richer longer-lasting head would really improve the appearance.
BODY: Deep copper with amber hues. Not to style at all, but generally appealing. No yeast is visible within. Appears adequately carbonated.
It's a bad looking dubbel, but I find it appealing outside of style conventions in a general sense.
AROMA: Muted dark fruit - dates, fig, prune. Amber malts. Candi sugar sweetness.
Suggests a shallow, reticent dubbel. Lacks expressive notes of dark fruits, and plum is absent.
Aromatic intensity is below average.
TASTE: The dark fruits are even more reticent than the aroma suggested; I can't pick out a distinct fruit at all. Maybe dates? No constituent note in this flavour profile is at all vivid or expressive, and while it has some loose cohesion, it never seems like a deliberate gestalt whole of a beer. Generic amber malt sweetness. Malt extract.
Unbalanced. Lacks any subtlety or nuance whatsoever, and it's painfully simple for a dubbel.
TEXTURE: Not the delicate or fragile mouthfeel you find in the best expressions of the style. Plain, medium-bodied, smooth, wet, oddly overcarbonated. It isn't supple, creamy, or velvety on the palate. Pretty mediocre for what it is, failing to accentuate any specific notes in the flavour profile or to elevate the beer as a whole.
OVERALL: Drinks more like a Belgian amber than anything else - and a bad one at that. This fails to fall within style conventions at every level - the appearance (why so light?), the aroma (where's the plum and vivid dark fruit?), the taste (where's the flavour in general, let alone the complexity you need in a dubbel?), the mouthfeel (why doesn't it support what little flavour there is?), and even in ABV (why only 6.5%? Did they use adequate fermentable sugars, let alone proper Trappist yeast?). It's somewhat drinkable, but discerning drinkers will find this ultimately as forgettable and unremarkable a dubbel as there can be. It's nice to see a Bulgarian brewery attempting the dubbel style, but frankly if this is going to be the kind of result they put to the market then they may as well stick to pale lagers.
D (2.15) / AVOID
Jun 11, 2016BOTTLE: Brown glass. Simple red label. Red pry-off crown cap. 500ml format. Best by: 14.04.2016.
Purchased in Bulgaria for ~6 Leva. Served cold into a goblet and allowed to warm over the course of the review. Expectations are average given the brewery and style. Reviewed live as a dubbel per the label.
HEAD: ~1cm wide. Khaki colour. Nice creaminess and thickness, though overall the consistency isn't quite as full as it should be given the style. Retention is poor - maybe 1 minute at most. Leaves no lacing as it recedes. A darker richer longer-lasting head would really improve the appearance.
BODY: Deep copper with amber hues. Not to style at all, but generally appealing. No yeast is visible within. Appears adequately carbonated.
It's a bad looking dubbel, but I find it appealing outside of style conventions in a general sense.
AROMA: Muted dark fruit - dates, fig, prune. Amber malts. Candi sugar sweetness.
Suggests a shallow, reticent dubbel. Lacks expressive notes of dark fruits, and plum is absent.
Aromatic intensity is below average.
TASTE: The dark fruits are even more reticent than the aroma suggested; I can't pick out a distinct fruit at all. Maybe dates? No constituent note in this flavour profile is at all vivid or expressive, and while it has some loose cohesion, it never seems like a deliberate gestalt whole of a beer. Generic amber malt sweetness. Malt extract.
Unbalanced. Lacks any subtlety or nuance whatsoever, and it's painfully simple for a dubbel.
TEXTURE: Not the delicate or fragile mouthfeel you find in the best expressions of the style. Plain, medium-bodied, smooth, wet, oddly overcarbonated. It isn't supple, creamy, or velvety on the palate. Pretty mediocre for what it is, failing to accentuate any specific notes in the flavour profile or to elevate the beer as a whole.
OVERALL: Drinks more like a Belgian amber than anything else - and a bad one at that. This fails to fall within style conventions at every level - the appearance (why so light?), the aroma (where's the plum and vivid dark fruit?), the taste (where's the flavour in general, let alone the complexity you need in a dubbel?), the mouthfeel (why doesn't it support what little flavour there is?), and even in ABV (why only 6.5%? Did they use adequate fermentable sugars, let alone proper Trappist yeast?). It's somewhat drinkable, but discerning drinkers will find this ultimately as forgettable and unremarkable a dubbel as there can be. It's nice to see a Bulgarian brewery attempting the dubbel style, but frankly if this is going to be the kind of result they put to the market then they may as well stick to pale lagers.
D (2.15) / AVOID
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