Alvinne Mano Negra

Brewed by Picobrouwerij Alvinne
Style: Imperial Stout
Moen, Belgium

Serve in Snifter

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Tasted at 1st Borefts Beer Festival, Bodegraven (can’t recall whether it was on draft or from bottle). Black appearance. Roasted notes, some chocolate. Neither complexity nor balance, but this might be because it was served between all those other brilliant beers at this festival.

Pours black with large brown head. Aromas of coffee and dark chocolate fill the nose. Taste is roasty, loads of chocolate, espresso, licorice, light spicyness and a little bit of sourness that comes from Alvinne’s signature "Morpheus" yeast. Very good, complex and not too sweet impy stout.

@ Haand festival. Pour dark, brown/"light black", with a small off-white head. Aroma is really mellow of coffee and chocolate. Taste is surprisingly a little sour? hmm.... Average body, with and average carbonation.

Bottle@ Kulminator. Black coloured beer with a small brown head. Strong alcoholic and spicy hinted aroma with some very light roasted malty touches. MEdium to full palate. Finish is full malty roasted, spicy alcoholic with a long ending and some bitter roasted touches. Not bad at all.

bottle a dark colored beer with a white head aroma roasted malts laurel spicy some fruits coffee and hops flavor roasted malts coffee laurel spicy citrus and hops

Very black, with a creamy beige head that leaves a lot of lacing. Sweet, raisin aroma, yeasty, raw malt. Not very complex actually. Also a quad, not an impy. Malty base taste, some roasted coffee, bit foamy. Enough hop balance. Hard to rate this one. The taste is quite sweet and well developed, but the aroma stays behind. I do like this. (33cl bottle, bit expensive)

Pours a very dark brown with a light tan head. Tiny bubbles. Thick like espresso. Funky nose - hard to distinguish aroma except for chocolate hints. Smooth creamy mouth reminiscent of chocolate milk. Light for a stout.

Dumpy 33cl brown bottle, bought at the 2010 Pre-Zythos fest bottleshop within the event organised by GlennC at Alvinne (March time). The bottle was opened and poured into a Westmalle chalice mid August 2010. Dark brown, almost black in appearance, with a creamy tanned head sat on top. Everything looks good in a Westmalle chalice though! The aroma was of chocolate, earthy molasses, some coffee and hints of liquorice. The flavours follow the smells, but the coffee and liquorice advance to equal billing with the molasses and chocolate in the taste. Rich, semi-creamy and very alcoholic (noticed more as the mouth dries). Different and most drinkable.

33 cl bottle @ Beersel.
Rated on 20100717.
Pours black color with large off-white head. Aroma of dark roasted malts, mild ripe fruits, liquorice notes, chocolate and some mocha-like coffee nots. Flavor of chocolate, roasted malts, coffee and mild ripe fruits. Much better than I expected.

bottle, has to be a Imperial Stout this but it is to bitter and soure for a Stout. Don’t like this. Nice head brown, dark. Taste is heavy bitter 69 ebu I think more or infected!

Bottle from beerplanet web shop. Almost black color with huge beige head. Strong carbonation. Aroma of roasted malt, black berries, caramel, touch of honey. Taste, black berries, roasted malt, honey, dark coffee, caramel. Long bitter finish. Good.