Goesting Dubbel
Yukon Brewing

16oz glass at Beer Revolution. Not certain of the actual name here.

This beer appears a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with one skinny finger of weakly puffy, somewhat foamy, and wispy beige head, which leaves a decent array of pockmarked concrete wall lace around the glass as things slowly abate.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, grape rope candy, a bit of earthy yeast, and some plain leafy, herbal and floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, muddled light orchard fruit, a twinge of black licorice, gone to ground yeastiness, and more generic leafy, weedy, and vaguely perfumed floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its supportive and faintly playful frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a wee underripe fruity acridity making a dent in the proceedings. It finishes off-dry, the yeast retreating, while the fruity malt considers making a day of it.

Overall, a pleasantly rendered version of this venerable Low Countries style, the fruity and yeasty esters doing well to meld and produce a fairly quaffable result. Worth checking out if you're a fan of this sort of thing, especially if you can get the name right.