Black Raven La Petite Mort

Brewed by Black Raven Brewing
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Redmond, Washington USA

Clear amber color with a light tan head. Nice Belgian yeasty spicy aromas with pit fruits. Medium body. Good earthy spicy yeast flavors with candi sugar, light pit fruits, and caramel.

Gorgeous red-orange with a creamed head. Light musky, efferevescent, yet viscous cloviness in aroma and flavor. Strong phenol presence. Decent brew, more akin to a dubbel perhaps than a BSA.

Deep mousey brown, spongy fluffy head. Oak and spice bread, cocoa dust, belgian dubbel yeasty thing going on. Very full in the mouth, not heavy, tannic leather and almond, satisfying yeast.

Tap at Black Raven. Pours a deep, almost opaque, brown with a one finger slightly off white head. Nose is apple, raisin, toffee, yeasty ester with some metallic notes. Taste is much of the same; not bad stuff but nothing earth shattering or revolutionary. Really kind of ’dumbed down’ and it would be much better if the apple and metallic were more subdued.

On tap at Tustin Brewing’s 13th Anniversary party, this dark amber colored beer had some slight candy sweetness along with a touch of funk.

On tap at Black Raven. Spicy banana/clove yeast, slightly funky and nutty, with some caramel sweetness. Definitely some earthy tobacco in the taste. Medium bodied with some charred wood in the finish.