Brewery: De Dolle Brouwers
Location: Esen (near Diksmuide), Belgium
ABV: 8%
Version: 330ml bottle

Arabier is one of the two main beers, they do make quite a few others, from De Dolle and is available throughout the year. The first impression I got from it wasn’t good; there was so much pressure in the bottle that I lost about a third of the beer as it all fizzed out on opening, even though the bottle had been sitting in my beer store (a corner of the kitchen, not a dedicated room… if only) for quite a few weeks.

I quickly decanted the remainder into the glass to reveal a dark golden, very murky and unsurprisingly still very foamy beer. Aroma is citrus fruity with some floral notes. The subsequent flavour, once I left it a bit longer to settle, is quite sweet and fruity with very little from the malt. The alcohol is certainly noticable but it doesn’t dominate. It may be popular and well-liked, certainly if its 92 percentile rating on RateBeer is any indicator, but it’s not for me, just too sweet, and I very much doubt I’d have it again.