Workin' Dubbel Time
Coulee Brew Co.

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - the first in a four-part 'Belgian Series'. Nice punny name, I gotta say.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves a single band of streaky lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.

It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, a muddled plum, banana, and red apple fruitiness, faint Belgian yeast, and some weak earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery cereal malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, wet banana chips, indistinct stone fruit, some mild old-school yeastiness, a hint of wispy smoke, and more well-understated leafy, weedy, and floral noble hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly tame in its ennui-stricken frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really a cause for concern at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity Alberta malt presiding.

Overall - this is certainly an approachable version of the venerable style, nice and frooty, with a well-masked 15-proof booze quotient. I am now looking forward to the forthcoming siblings, as detailed on the handy, well, brochure that came with this offering.