3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
On tap at fête Bière et Saveurs. Pours deep black with a huge head, very creamy and dense. Nose is faint. Taste is faint roasted malt. Palate is really creamy. Not bad overall but far too discrete. Drinkable, refreshing but no complexity.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at bateau de nuit. Black pour with light brown foam. Aroma has lots of roasted barley, some coffee and a bit of soy too. Taste is very light, hints of coffee and roasted barley, no real hop bitterness to speak of. Palate is watery, but it is strangely refreshing. If I were to have multiple pints of the same beer in one night, I could certainly pick this one.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at Vice et Versa. Pours a deep black, with a thin beige head and some crimson highlights. Coffee, chocolate, roast and cocoa. Light chocolate, rather thin and a bit watery. Coffee and chocolate. Decent, but nothing amazing. Smooth with long coffee and chocolate tannins on the finish.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Sample, at the Festival Bières et saveurs, savoured on September 4 2009; eye: black, opaque, creamy beige head, light lacing; nose: butterscotch, light roasted malt, slight vanilla; mouth: butterscotch, light roasted malt, slight vanilla, light roasting, light acidity, finale all in butterscotch, silky texture, average carbonation, thin; overall: disappointing
FRANÇAIS
Échantillon, bue au Festival Bières et saveurs, savourée le 4 septembre 2009; œil : noire, opaque, mousse crémeuse beige, légère dentelle; nez : caramel écossais, léger malt torréfié, très léger vanille; bouche : caramel écossais, léger malt torréfié, très léger vanille, légère torréfaction, légère acidité, finale tout en caramel écossais, texture soyeuse, carbonatation moyenne, mince; en résumé : déçu
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
A dark stout with a thin moka head. In aroma, butterscotch and chocolate, light coffe notes. In mouth, a thin stout, with light coffee notes, very light bodied. On tap at Fête Bieres et Saveurs, Sept. 4 2009.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bu à la Fête Bière et Saveur 2009, le 5 septembre. Pure noire, petit colle collet biege. Arome de café fraichement torifié, bien malté. Goût de café malté très légé, pas mal aqeuse, petite finission sûrette. Trop d’eau dans ton café!
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at the Brouhaha, pitch black color, with a creamy beige head, black chocolate, roasted malt nose, with some coffee bean, dark coffee, multi-grain bready dough accents, with a hint of vanilla, mochaish in the aroma follows through a light-bodied palate with a mild mochaish, roasted, dark malt character, with a faint espresso accent, and a light flowery hop grassiness, leading towards a balck coffee, roasty, hop leafy bitterness finish.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
My Bottom Line:
This anemic Stout sends timid vanilla and roastiness alongside earthy hops for a drinkable but inherently lackluster example of the style.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam decorates the darkest brown, drawing some lacing.
-Malt character is really not developed enough for my preferences in the style.
-The finish is hoppy, but a tad vegetal as well.
-I find the dextrins too meager for the style.
On tap at Vices et Versa.
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