Indianhead_Brewer
Well-Known Member
So last week in my continuing mission of trying new beers and styles I bought a mixed six pack of beer. One of my choices happened to be New Belgium's Abbey since I hadn't had a dubbel before and figured this would be a good intro to this style. Wow, right after pouring this beer in the glass I knew this was going to be a unique experience. Talk about banana aroma. At first taste this ale lived up to its aroma and the flavor was definitely a spicy banana taste. After drinking about half of the beer I noticed an intense almost migraine like headache coming on. This headache stuck around the rest of the night and was with me through part of the next morning. I am pretty sure it was the beer that brought this on, and thinking about this style I am wondering if it was the characteristic esters of this style that brought on this headache. I am perplexed though since I have never had this problem with other estery beers like hefeweizen. All I can say is that I am unsure I will try another dubbel in the future since I really didn't enjoy the end result, plus I can't say I really enjoyed the funky belgian flavor anyway.