Alternatief Ambetanterik

Brouwerij Het Alternatief
Brewed at Picobrouwerij Alvinne
Style: Imperial Stout
Izegem, Belgium

Serve in Snifter

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(33cl bottle) Pours a murky amber-brown body with a medium cream head. Aroma of caramel, yeast, raisins, dinner mint, and chocolate. Flavor of caramel, yeast, dark fruit, chocolate, and vinous.

Very malty aroma, bit of wood too. Silky smooth texture. Vinous, warming alcohol, ripe dried fruit, cognac.

Bottle at ZBF’12, Leuven, Belgium: Very black brew with an fine taste of sweet chocolate, coffee and roasted malts. Slowly the Belgians will master them selfes the Imperial Stout style.

#1328 bottle; nose is sweet licorice, decent soursweet mediumroasted malt, oak whiff, little urinal cakes, later stale coffee, feel is mediumfat, carb is medium, taste is decent mediumsharp alcohol, oak, cereal, sweet licorice, red pepper

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Amber brown brew with lots of tan head. Aroma is sweet with dark fruit and some spicy Belgian yeast. Flavor is slightly tart with more dark fruit and lots of alcoholic heat.

Bottle sample @ 5de Brugs Bier festival. Cuivrée, col beige léger. Malt grillé/caramel, qcq fruits noir et levure au nez. En bouche, malté restant dans un style belge plus proche d’une Belgian Strong plutôt que d’une Imp. Stout. Note biscuitée voire de noisette, levure dans le style belge avec sur la fin un léger côté chocolaté et expresso mais toujours avec cette levure belge qui se termine sur un bon côté fruité noirs.

33 cl. bottle sampled @ Bruges Beer Festival 2012: murky brown amber with a tanned head, smell is sweet, Belgian malts, sweet spices, mocha, dark fruits, taste is mainly lots of Belgian malts & spices, sweet on both sides, coupled with hint of instant cocoa powder, dark fruits, Belgian yeast, small hints of caramel plus Belgian yeast, mainly Belgian malts & spices, standard body – impy stout? BSDA – not getting any stout here…

Dark brown with decent creamy head. Nose of chocolate, dark sugary malt, sour cherry, and chicory. Flavour is fruity, malty, spicy, and bitter chocolate. Mediom body, overcarbonated. Dark bitter chocolate, sour touch on palate. Bitter sour aftertaste. B@H

Bottle, bought @ Alvinne Beershop.
Serious gusher! Pours deep brown with a giant, frothy, off-white head. Aroma has metallic notes from carbonation, chocolate, prunes, some banana, a bit yeasty. Highish carbonation, creamy and light dry mouthfeel. Flavour has lots of chocolate, light milky, some raisins and prunes. A hint of cold coffee and mild bitterness. Shame about the excessive carbonation.

#2, bottle, slight gusher. amber brown with reddish hues, porous ceam head. quickly fading large head. aroma smells like malted milk balls ie. whoppers, chocolate notes. chocolate flavor immediately, fizzy mouthfeel throughout, finishes somewhat sour, aroma was a bit misleading. surprised flavor is unlike aroma.

13/11/2011 33cl bottle @ home - BB: sept/2011 (2011-640)

Note: GUSHER WARNING, that was not funny. More than half of the bottle was sprayed across my living room.

Clear dark purple brown beer, big beige aery head, unstable, little adhesive. Aroma: caramel, dried fruits, little dusty, wood, small hint of mocha, some rotten fruits. MF: too much carbon (duh), full body. Taste: citrus, brown sugar, mocha, roasted malts, bitter hops, spices. Aftertaste: dark chocolate, coffee, brown sugar, slight hop bitterness. Not bad, but I wouldn’t call it a stout, let alone an imperial one.