Big Mama Stout

NovaBirra
Brewed at Brasserie de Jandrain-Jandrenouille
Style: Stout
Braine-L’Alleud, Belgium

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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75cl bottle and a very lively one at that. Pours jet black with a foaming tan head. Chocolate and roast malts as expected, some dark fruit and whisky flavours, alcoholic warmth and a dry bitter finish. Great stuff

75cl bottle @ 7th Arch’en Bières 2011, thanks Manu for the share. A nice Belgian stout with an American twist, memories of Manu’s time living in DC. Couleur noir, mousse épaisse moka. Arôme est subtile et retient un profile belge tout en mariant les notes américaines d’un malt chocolat, grillé et torréfié qui laisse s’échapper un peu d’amertume. En bouche, bière au profile malt prononcé, donc le mélange de différents malts allant d’un chocolat noir amer (qui reste léger) a de belles notes grillées et torréfiées. En arrière-goût, une pointe de café et un peu de réglisse. Palais est sec et poudreux allant sur une note de feuille de tabac le tout conservant une approche belge de par la levure. Une stout qui mérite ce score et qui reste dans le style, légère mais pleine de saveurs, qui allie à la fois un savoir belge tout en ayant un petit clin d’œil aux US. Un régal surtout à 6.24%

this black stout is a very good one . Full body, nice taste of dark chocolate and cold coffee with a slightly bitter ending. It’s brewed in Belgium together with an Italian brewer. This kind of beer is one of my favourites.

Bottle. Pours a black, impenetrable beer with a creamy tanned head. Aroma has licorice, chocolate and roasted malts. Flavor is very sweet, has some fruity notes, alongside with some raisins. Very nice in balance, great beer.

Black stout with a creamy head, aroma of coffee and roasted even burned malt, very dry and bitter, long dry coffee aftertaste, B@BF

UPDATED: AUG 29, 2011 75cl, at 6.24%Vol, new exclusive brew Anno 2011, from Willems Grobbendonk, complex Stout, fruity/roasted and slightly bitter, very easy to drink, very balanced, cloudy, good head, very good brew, ’Certainly in my Top 10 Belgian breweries... Keep on the good work!’

75cl bottle shared at CBC Clerkenwell. This was a good surprise. It pours a deep dark brown colour with a large beige head. Aroma is roasty and chocolatey with a definite tartness. Taste is similarly well balanced between sweet caramel, roasted malts, coffee flavours and the tartness. As it warms up the acidic character comes through and make this a very interesting offering. I didn’t see that coming.

Taste this beer @ WBF tasting new beers febr. 2012. Found Geers. Dark brown almost black color, good large beige head. Aroma chocolate, sweet. Medium body. Taste bitterness, coffee, roasted malts, dark chocolate. Good brew.

A black colored beer, with a beige head. The aroma of chocolate malt, dark fruits, some cherries and notes of spices. The taste of dark fruits, prunes with cherries. Some chocolate malt, notes of spices and bitter. The aftertaste is sweet, a little chocolate with bitter tones.

Bottle 750ml.

Clear dark red brown colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, choclate. leather. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120128]