Sugar Creek Brewing Company Dubbel

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This beer is a Belgian-style Dubbel Ale from Sugar Creek Brewing Company. This beer won Silver at the 2025 US Open Beer Championship. This beer is 7.6% ABV. Available in 750ml bottles. It’s sold at Sugar Creek’s brewery (https://sugarcreekbrewing.com). This Dubbel pours brown with a one-finger beige head. That head fades slowly. The aroma is of dark fruits, malty notes, and sweetness. The flavor is of cherry, plum, raisins, and light chocolate. It is sweet and malty, with banana, clove, and brown sugar. This beer has a medium mouthfeel. It has a dark fruit finish with some malts. The aftertaste is of sweet dark fruits. This beer is not as heavy as some Belgian Dubbels, but close, and it does not feel overly alcoholic. This Sugar Creek Dubbel is delicious, I give it an A. I see why it won that silver medal. It has a good balance of tasty flavors. I highly recommend this beer. Sugar Crewing Brewing is one of my top favorite breweries. Please stay safe, be kind to one another, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Trappistes Rocheford 6

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We are back to Belgian beer…for now. This one is Trappistes Rocheford 6. This is a Dubbel-style beer, that is 7.5% ABV. Monks at their Abby brewed this beer in Rocheford Belgium, which I have visited. This Dubbel is in a proper Rocheford glass from the distributor Merchant DuVin. Thank you to them for Thant. This ale pours a light brown Carmel color with a one-and-a-half finger beige head. The aroma is sweet, malty, and light licorice-like aromas. The flavor is dark, sweet malty, and light-bodied. This also has some candy-sugar-like flavors. The mouthfeel is on the lighter side. Then comes a light-bodied sweet malty caramel finish. This beer is not as heavy as some other Dubbels. There is a nice malted semi-sweet aftertaste that lingers a little. This is a prime example of a Belgian Dubbel. I give Trappistes Rocheford 6 an A. The light body keeps it from perfect, but I recommend this Belgian Dubbel. If you have any beer reviews you would like to see then comment below. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Trappist Westmalle Trappist Dubbel

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Today’s review started as an idea from Mechent DuVin sending me a few Belgian beer glasses. Two Westmalle and Trappist Rocheford. Thank you again to Mechent DuVin for sending them. This beer is Westmalle Trappist Dubbel. This Dubbel is 7% ABV, from Malle, Belgium. I have reviewed Westmalle Extra and Trippel. You can use this blog search feature to find them. This beer brewed by Trappist monks pours a deep brown color with lighter brown edges and a two-finger thick beige head. That head slowly dissipates. The aroma is malty, sweet, and strong. The taste is malty, dark, sweet, smooth, and strong. The flavor is stronger than the aroma. This has an almost full feeling in the mouth. This beer has a sweet/smooth, malty finish with a little boozy note. Then you find a malty, sweet, smooth aftertaste that lingers briefly. This is a delicious beer that is well deserving of an A. I think this is as good as Chimay Blue if not the same. I highly recommend Westmalle Trappist Dubbel. But if you want the best experience of this beer, then drink one at Westmalle restaurant. You can beat freshness. This is still as good. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Trappist Westvleteren 8

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This beer is an Abby Dubbel from Trappist Westvleteren, St. Sixuth Abby. They call this beer Trappist Westvleteren 8. This Belgian is 8% abv, from Westvleteren, Belgium. This and their other three beers are nearly impossible to find outside the brewery, let alone in the US. I bought three six-packs while on the Belgian Beer Me Trappist tour. They also make a blond, and a Quad, which is the 12. These are highly rated and sought-after beers. I tried them all at their restaurant. This Dubbel pours a deep brown with a thick and creamy beige head. The head never seems to dissipate. The aroma is dark, and malty, and has a light scent of dark fruit. The flavor is smooth, rich, dark sweet, and malty. This has a fuller mouthfeel. Then it has a smooth dark and malted finish. The aftertaste is rich, and creamy, with a lighter malt note. This beer does have yeast still in the bottle. That is because its last fermentation is in the bottle. You can either pour that bit of yeast into the beer or not. I usually do. This beer was delicious and flavorful, but I don’t think it lives up to the hype in my book. It is hyped up because it is hard to get and delicious. With that said I give this an A+. This is a good beer with a meat dish, like a good steak (like I did last night) chicken, or pork. Well, this Westvleteren and any of their beers are hard to recommend, due to availability, but if you’re there in Westvleteren then have this beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly. Cheers!

Trappistes Rochefort 6 Belgian Ale

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This Abby Dubbel is Trappistes Rochefort 6. This beer is 7.5% ABV from Rochefort, Belgium. This beer was brewed by monks all the way back, somewhere around 1595. This ale pours murky light brown with a two-finger off-white head. The aroma is sweet, dark, and malty. The flavor is sweetened, dark, and malty as well. There also is a light bitterness here. This is an almost medium feeling in the mouth. Then comes a light bittersweet dark finish. The aftertaste is a little sweet and malty but fades as soon as it hits. This Rochefort 6 is good, but I think there are ones better out there. This Dubble gets a C+. I find this ale lacking in some flavors, but they aren’t terrible. This can be a little more flavorful. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

St. Bernardus Brewery Prior 8

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This is yet another beer from the St. Bernardus Brewery mixed six-pack. This beer is Prior 8, a Belgian Dubble. This beer is 8% ABV. This beer pours a deep chestnut brown color with a two-finger beige head. The aroma is sweet with dark fruits and light licorice. The flavor is dark fruits (raisins, apricots, and plumbs), sweetness, and a malt flavor. This beer has a medium feel on the mouth. This beer has a malty dark finish. Then it has a maly dark fruit aftertaste that lingers less with the fruit and more with the malts. This is a good beer, one that is an A+. I recommend this beer with a rich meat dish or stew. This beer is good. One that is not to be missed. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Sugar Creek Brewing Co. Bottle Conditioned Dubbel Belgian-Style Ale

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The Sugar Creek Brewing Co. has quickly become my new favorite brewery. They brew fantastic beers mostly in the Belgian-style and are just as good as the Belgians if not better. This is there Bottle Conditioned Dubbel Belgian-Style Ale, 7.6% ABV. This only comes in a corked 750ML bottle and can be found on tap at various bars and resturants. This Dubbel pours a light brown hue with a thin one finger beige head that flees quickly into a small bubbly island as it fizzy away. This Dubbel gives off nice fig, raisin aromas with slight plum and cherry notes mixed with a candied sugar note that invites you into a flavor of figs, raisins, with nice candied sugar slight alcoholic notes with some faint cheery and plum, that all finish with a bold flavor with some slight alcoholic plum raisin with finger that end with a lingering aftertaste of more raisin and fig sweetness. The mouth feel is on the fuller side but this isn’t a heavy beer.  Sugar Creek Brewing Co. Bottle Conditioned Dubbel Belgian-Style Ale is definitely an A+. This true to the Belgian Dubbel style and is so very similar to the Belgian brewed Dubbels. I highly recommend this to anyone. It is a very well crafted beer and tops my list! Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!