Berghoeve Hammer Schout

Brewed by Berghoeve Brouwerij
Style: Imperial Stout
Den Ham, Netherlands

Serve in Snifter

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Pours a clear and black beer with a beige head. The aroma is weak with malt, dried fruit and liquorice. The flavor follows the nose with additional roasted notes. The palate is sweetness. Overall an average beer.

Bottle, 8%. Dusty and papery aroma, slightly fruity. Almost black colour, seems clear, hint of red. The flavour is nicely creamy and dusty. Good roasted flavour, salty and sweet. Creamed coffee aftertaste. Flavourful, but well-balanced.

33 cL bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a thick and creamy tan head. Aroma is toasted malty and slight breadish. Thick malty and liqourice. Dark malty and roasted. Light liqourice. Bitter and dark malty.

Pours dark brown with a light brown head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate and dark fruit. Flavour is roasted malt, sweet, alcohol, chocolate, liquorish and dried fruit.

Bottle 750ml. @ [ Tasting by Fin & Loz ].

Clear dark brown brown colour with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, fruity - berry - strawberry, light chocolate - coffee. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, licorice, berry - strawberry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111021]

Bottle @ Early Winter Tasting, Odense, 2011. Pours black with a creamy beige head. Nose is roast and liquorice. Sweet. Yeast and toffee. Roasted and dry. Full bodied.

Black with a small tan head. Weak aroma of licorice, fruit and yeast. Sweet licorice and chocolate flavour with a fruity and yeasty touch

Bottle looks very simple. Beer in the glass deep black, small head. Starts strong and malty, quite smokey. Some fruity hints of berries. Finish more dry, still quite smokey. Interesting.

Bottle at Fin & Loz’s tasting with Jan, Charlotte, Craig, Stella & kids consumed 21.10.11 picked up from Bierkonning, Amsterdam, Netherlands September 11 Black with a tan head. Soft mouthfeel but lighter and fruitier than some. Lingering soft bitter and roasty flavours, some sweet liquorice and coffee. Good. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4

[750ml bottle courtesy of dantheman278] Black, thin lacing only. Quite flat. Big alcohol on the nose, rich mocha coffee notes. Highly carbonated. Deep chocolate on the taste, quite oily after a while. Roasted, slightly liquorice finish, with plenty of booze in there as well. Good stuff [15102011]