Brasseurs et Frères La Récidive

Brewed by Brasseurs et Frères
Style: Stout
Dunham, Canada

[bottle] Blast of burnt hazelnut and vanilla aroma. Opaque brown-black with a light brown cover. Nice vanilla and burnt nutty flavour. Bitterness comes primarily from roasted barley, but there is a significant amount of hops. Strawberry and citrus notes. Medium body, moderate carbonation, slightly bitter finish.

Pours a cola like body with a frothy mocha top that leaves some lace. Nose of smoke, chocolate, yeast, a bit of coffee. Tastes very grainy, with coffee, a bit woodsy, quite yeasty, a bit of vanilla. Grainy texture with lingering funky aftertaste. Something missing here, but overall still good. Thanks Milos!

Forte odeur de café torréfié. Goût "épais", dense. Un peu trop fort pour moi. Pas vraiment de d’arrière goût acre. Peu d’effervescence.

Bottled, thanks Timo A! Black with creamy tan head. Coffeish aroma with licorice and sulphur. Dry roasty coffeish flavor with licorice. Oily palate. Tasty but somewhat simple.

Bottle from Dépanneur Rahman. Pours a thin looking dark black with a hefty tan head, though the bubbles are kind of ugly, and with the volume I’m suspecting it’s infected, but fortunately it didn’t gush. Aromas are… unexpected. Old cardboard, smoke, and some berries?. Rather thin, and oddly sweet, with more off flavors. Finishes with a bit more smoke, grain, and cardboard, and more berries. Better than I was expecting, but nothing crazy.

Tap at Vices et Versa. Deep black beer. The aroma is quite interesting. Lots of heavy dried/charred fruit. Intensely fruity with a heavy brown sugary sweetness. There is a bit of tarry, black licorice and a lingering herbal spiciness. A bit of cinnamon and clove in back of the chewy, sweet dark malts.

1,89$ for 341ml. I personnaly think this stout is somewhat unique, but not all for the best. The aroma is more of caramel than other stouts I had. The texture is a little thin, even close from watery. Carbonation is a little strange, like patched fizzyness. Chocolate and espresso are obvious but an also rather unique kind of bitterness, interesting and long-lasting, dominates much of the mouthfeel. A good stout, distinct, that offers something different than many bland stouts. But I don’t like it that much...

Bottle. Pours a dark black pour with a quickly disappearing head. Aromas of roasted malts & chocolate. Could swear i had olive but who knows. Smooth tasting, little light bodied. Not real complex at 4,8% but solid.