Au Maître Brasseur Bête Noire

Formerly brewed at AMB - Maître Brasseur
Style: Imperial Stout
Laval, Canada

Serve in Snifter

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Mondiale 2010. Pours a light woody brown with a thin head. Aroma is cedar, oxidized malts, oak chips, toast, roasted barley light chocolate malt off fruity esters, and cherry pit. Flavor is nutty, roast, light burnt toast, paper oxidation metallic mineral cherry juice, astringent and pitty- meh.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with a thin almond head that leaves delicate lace for the upper third of the glass. Low aroma of burnt malt and coffee. Flavour is burnt malt, coffee, bitter chocolate with an acrid bitterness in the finish, very astringent. Mouthfeel is somewhat thin for the style, carbonation is fine and velvety.

341ml bottle from Peluso. pours pitch black with a nice moka colored head. aroma of coffee, chcocolate and roasted malts. taste is the same. pretty thin mouthfeel, not bad but there’s much better imperial stouts in the same price range.

Poured a clear light brown color with a small beige head. The aroma and flavor were simple. Roasted malt with a light coffee component. Almost medium bodied.

Thanks to Phil for the bottle! Poured deep brown with a short cap of tan head.. left slowly-cascading lacing as it descended. The aroma picked up sweeter, moderately-roasted coffee and black patent malts with accents of vanilla and smoky char.. a little tangy coffee twang on the back. The flavor found some coffee tartness and the same roasted malts from the nose.. coffee and some vinegary notes provided bitterness on the edges.. very roasty on the finish, but the malt bill wasn’t all that great. Medium-bodied and decently balanced on the palate.. a little bit sharp from the roast.. this was a decent drinker, but not much better.

341 ml bottle from Trappe a Fromage, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass.

App.: Deep brown-black with small light tan-grey head. Aroma: Some white grapes, milk chocolate, a little molasses, licorice and darker chocolate when swirled and really sniffed, some leafy hops, a little vanilla/coconut. Palate: Medium body, rounded and fairly full effervescence. Flav.: Similar to the nose, grapes and chocolate, a bit more black coffee, some green, resinous hops, some dark chocolate; almost dry with fair bitterness, minerals and a little licorice and coffee to finish.

Light for an Impy, still tasty.

Nothing imperial about this one. Oily vinous herbal hop aroma mixed with coffee. Flavor us more of the grassy hops and a sharp toasty slightly watery coffee finish. Meh.

A dark clear brown stout with a thick big bubbled moka head. An interesting aroma of oily chocolate, weeds, and some vinous notes. In mouth, a good sweet chocolate with oily character, herbal hops, some homebrew ressemblances, coffee, somewghat cloying, but good. 2.99$ at Dieux de la Bière.

0.34 l bottle, thanks TimoA! Black color with small head. Roasty, acrid and leathery aroma. Roasty and acrid flavor with licorice and coffee. Firm carbonation. Too acrid.

Stratford tasting @ Cletus house. Pours a black body with a tan head. Burnt malt, dry coffee and espresso notes, lighter sweet caramel and sugar. Nice brew.