De la Senne Stouterik

Brewed by Brasserie de la Senne
Style: Stout
Brussels, Belgium

Serve in English pint

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11.2 oz bottle and served in my Ommegang tulip: Pours a deep brown with reddish highlights topped by a huge fluffy head which left stringy lacework upon the glassware. The aroma has notes of pear, green apple, raisin and plum fruity esters, some coffee and road tar, leathery, stale biscuit grains and even a tad minty before the dreaded lactobacteria comes about to ruin my day. F’ing Belgian stouts anyway, why do I keep buying these? The flavor profile is utterly bland and lacks any forceful stout tones... who tricked me by sneaking a brown ale in my glass when I was not looking? Quick dash of dark fruit, chalky and ashy wood, grassy hops and cane sugar before fleeing away... far far away from the impending lactic acid takeover. Instead of Vlad the Impaler, we should call this Lacto the Sourer! Oh, the mouth feel is equally lame and pissy. Maybe if they started calling these Wallachian stouts I could get it why they must feed on all the fermentables (but then that would be offensive to all Romanians and for that matter Romulans too, sorry)

Poured a very dark brown, almost black. Almost no head. Aroma is quite sweet with roasted malts and some milk chocolate. Some cherries as well. The taste is quite burnt yet a tiny bit watery. Some coffee as well. Aftertaste is slightly astringent with more burnt flavors.

Clear dark ruby brown with a good ring head and splotchy lace. Considering the low abv, this is an exceptional brew - lots of roasted caramel/coffee for openers, with a clean, bitter toasted-malt finish, which is particularly satisfying. Refreshing to enjoy a stout that doesn’t follow the current formula: malt moving to bitter chocolate and/or coffee to finish.

Bottle from Beautiful Beers. Pours ruby black with initial good head but goes too quickly. Nice lacing. Scent of strong roasted malts and slight fruitiness. Good dark roasted malt flavour with a hint of sourness and a good bitter finish. An excellent stout.

Faint roasted malt and chocolate aroma. Dark brown with hidden suspension. Couldn’t get a head on pour. Flavor is very bitter, and not typical stout bitterness at that. Consistency is way too thin; it doesn’t outweigh most lagers. Nice to see a new brewer work out of the Belgian comfort zone, but this is not my cup of stout.

Too much like Guinness. Too watery for my taste. Very few hints of chocolate or coffee and not too much of an aroma. Not too bad, but a very regular beer.

Bottle. Poured an opaque dark brown color. The head was tall and light brown with good retention and a bit of lace. Chocolate, raisin, toffee, and subdued roasty malt in the nose. Light to medium bodied and dryish with carbonation on the bubbly end of the spectrum. Roasty dark malt flavor with a hint of smoke.

Tap at Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Dark chocolate brown colour, big golden head. Aroma is chocolate and creamy malt, ovaltine almost, bit roasty. Taste is very smooth and chocolatey. Quite dry too. Lots of grain and wheat. Really malty. Some subtle bitterness towards the end. Lovely.

(draught) pours a clear darkest ruby colour with a frothy beige head. acrid aroma of toasted malts, herbal hops and heavily roasted coffee. flavour is almost the same, light dark chocolate and coffee, with little complexity and lots of astringent toasted grain. light-bodied with average carbonation.

33 cl bottle, $1.90 at Binny’s, April 2011. Another lower-alcohol beer I should have finished long ago. Yet when opened, there’s a definite waft of alcohol in the air. Poured into a Nonick glass, it’s black with brown highlights, a slightly foamy stout head. Smell up close has slightly roasty stout grain. Taste has some coffee stout roast up front. Dry mouthfeel which still has nice hop bitterness. At this stage, it seems like more of a sharp German bitterness than English. And I like it just fine. Some dregs at the bottom. A secondary ferment? Maybe that’s why this one has held up very well. I can slightly credit my beer cellar which stays at a nice 50°F when I lean the door in front of it.

Bottle picked up at State Line in Elkton, MD. Served in a De La Senne tulip. Pours a dark brown color with a good light tan head and some lacing on the sides of the glass. The nose carries distinctive Belgian yeast along with some chocolate and roast. Flavor hits on the roast and chocolate with yeast and fruit in the background. Some light spice. Medium body with a semi-dry finish. Pretty good.