Bièropholie Calumet Grand Chef

Formerly brewed at Bièropholie
Style: Smoked
, Canada

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Couleur sombre noire, avec mousse brune épaisse et compacte s’estompant pour former un lacet tracant le verre très légèrement. Arôme envoûtant très chocolaté, torréfaction, légèrement fumé. Goût parfaitement équilibré, malt chocolat, pointes fumées, note douce d’alcool, rôti et boisé, un délice. Finale douce en alcool, fumé, et amertume. Corps crémeux très ronde. Cette Bièropholie me rend Phoux !

Bouteille de 341 ml. Brune très foncée, peu de collet (beige). Arome funé légé, de malte chocolaté et un peu de café. Bon goût fumé mais rien d’impossant, des notes de cacao, malte roti et de d’herbe fumé. René, je t’aime!!

Pitch black poor with a foam like light brown head. Aromas of hickory, moca coffee beans, black olives, dark bitter chocolate and roasted malts. Good biiterness... makes me think of that dark chocolate. Oily creamy mouthfeel with a dry somewhat sweet aftertaste. Very smokey flavors and aromas. Added bourbon vanilla with flowery notes to the taste. Very young brew... with lots of potential.

Édition Plus. Robe noire surmontée d’une mousse beige épaisse qui s’estompe. Arômes de jambon fumé et de boeuf fumé. Saveurs de malt chocolat, de boeuf fumé et de saumon fumé. Texture crémeuse.

Deep black color, with a small tan-colored head, nice bacon smoky nose, with some roasted malts, burnt beechwood notes, with a black coffee aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a smooth smoky roasted malt character, with some black roasted coffee beans, a faint vanilla spiciness, with a burnt toast note, black bitter chocolatey accent, leading towards a roasted black malt and dry roastiness, mild bitterness. finish.

UPDATED: MAY 23, 2007 Bottle, Pour a dark brown robe toped with a small moka head (allready dying). Strong nose of beef jerky and then all the roast you can imagine: Coffee, chocolate, toast. Oily palate. Behind the overwelming bitterness you can taste a soft licorice

Aroma:smoke,strong rosted malt,coffe... Apperance:dark,medium moka head.. Flavor:smoked,rosted malt,fudge.....good but the first version of calumet 4 years a go was more smoke.....

UPDATED: OCT 24, 2009 This beer is opaque black with a medium mocha head. The aroma is just wonderfull, there is a ton of smoke (bamberg and peated malt), wood, a generous presence of caramel and roasted malt. Taste is very intense, the nice blend of bamberg and peated malt flavour strikes first, followed closely by a nice wave of sugar and caramel, then bitterness strikes, with a very long finish of smoke, roasted malt and wood. A very nice comeback for Bièropholie!

UPDATED: FEB 24, 2008 My Bottom Line:
This luxurious Smoked Porter sports an affable wooden and peaty smokiness atop a most huggable roasted caramel. Serene and ample, its prominent residual sugars are intelligently offset by the roasted malt’s dryness, the leveled salty smoke and a subtle leafy hop touch. A world-class specimen from Bièropholie!

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A ring of foam surveils the nearly opaque ebony.
-Subtle raisiny, blueberry fruitiness adds to the complexity, seemingly seeping out of the dark chocolate.
-The smoke is never too intense, and offers earthy and peaty notes on top of its wooden character.
-There is no sign of the abv; this is absurdly drinkable.
-Vanilla and coffee appear once in a while.
-This is richer than the original Calumet, and perhaps a little less drinkable because of it, but if you’ve ever wondered how the first Calumet would translate into a sipper, your wishes have been granted.

Fresh bottles and on tap at various places.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 2     Light Brown(1)->Pitch Black(5) : 3     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 3
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 4   Off-White(1)->Dark Brown(5) : 3   Lasting: 2   Lacing : 2   Nitro : XX
Aroma:
Intensity : 4  
Yeast : XX   Bread : XX   Apple : XX   Tropical Fruits : XX   Ink : XX   Tar : XX   Olives : XX   DMS : XX
Malt : 5   Biscuity : 4   Burnt Toast : XX   Caramel : 2   Nuts : XX   Pumpernickel : XX   Cereals : XX   Coffee : 2   Dark Chocolate : XX   Vanilla : 2   Grapes : XX   Blackberries : 3   Cherries : XX
Hops : 2   Noble(1)->American(5) : 2   Leafy : XX   Floral : XX   Lemon/Lime : XX   Grapefruit : XX Orange : XX   Herbal : XX   Pine/Spruce/Resin : XX
Notes :   Earth : 2   Wood : 4   Mint : XX   Smoke : 5   Soy : XX   Bourbon : XX   Anise : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 4   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 4   Sourness : XX   Lactic : XX   Bitterness : 2   Complex : 3   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 4   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 2   Clean : XX   Sharp : XX   Watery : XX   Oily : XX   Chalk : XX   Astringent : XX   Alcohol : XX   Mineral : XX   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : XX

Comments: A solid structure, eminently malty with profound beechwoody Bamberg nuances. The hefty dose of residual sugars impart delicate honeyed, oatmeal cookies and cakey subtleties. Soft bitterness. Absolutely excellent.