Emelisse Black & Tan

Brewed by Brouwerij Emelisse
Style: Imperial Stout
Kamperland, Netherlands

Serve in Snifter

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Dark brown almost black color. Smell whisky with a peaty scent. Taste of roasted malt and smoked food. A little bit sweet and bitter by the roasted malt.

Bottle. Deep dark brown color. Malt, roast, peat and soft cigar notes in the aroma. Malty roasty, syrupy, peaty but also grassy hopbitter flavor. Dry, yet malty. Tar and peat. Very tasty, satisfyingly balanced beer.

Bottle, 33cl, Online. Aroma: Leather, smoke, whisky and some hops on the background. Appearance: Black as night. Brown head. Small dotty lacings linger. Taste: This stuff is godly. Dark as an IRS, floral as an IPA. Roasted malts, whisky, herbal, leather, hops. Everything a man or woman could want. Just missed a tad depth. Palate: Hoppyness everywhere. Smooth whisky notes carry the hops down. Pretty thick with some spicy carbonation. Heavy hitter I’d say. I could drink this ambrosia for days.

Pours a dark brown color with aroma of whiskey, peat, roasted malt, and chocolate. Whiskey flavor wtih roasted malt, peat, and chocolate. A bit hot, but very nice!

330ml bottle. Darkest brown colour with average, creamy, fairly lasting, moderately lacing, tan head. Aroma of old buckskin, oak, tobacco, peat, hooch. Taste is initially for a glimpse fruity hoppy and minimally sweet dark malty, but instantaneous killed by the whisky notes: leather, oak, peat. Slightly too much whisky, though not so completely overdone as many other BA beers.

Bottle @ home shared with Dutchdrebus. Dark brown to black, but not entirely black cause a dark red glare comes through when held into the light. Small to medium sized beige head. Smell malts, peat, islay whisky, lightly alcohol, wood, earth, tar. Taste malts, light to moderately bitter, wood, peat, islay whisky, earth, tar and even some hops. Low carbonation, medium to full body.

Bottle @ benzai. Black colour with a small beige to light brown head. Smells peaty, whisky, roasty, earth, ash, coal, tar. Tastes slightly bandaid, peat, roasty, ash, tar, whisky, wood. Deep and lasting taste. Lovely. Full body, soft carbo.

Bottle: Brown pour. Medium sized, vast and slowly changing beige light tan foamy head on top of a black colored beer. Aromas of peat, bandage, iodine, roast, cream, spices, soap, wood burn and light medicinal. Flavours of earth, light iodine and bandage, roast, chalk, bitters, peat, smoke, some wood roast, light spices and liquorice wood. Aftertaste is chalky, earth, peat, bitters and wood roast. Low carbo, soft creamy to silky mouthfeel, full body and a creamy light oily texture. Earth, peat, bitters, a very good beer!

Yeah... little disappointing this one. I loved the white label Black and Tans, some of which are my favorites ever. This one is just too peaty and almost like your eating cold coffee grounds. There are some sweeter, nicer, whiskier tones in the aftertaste, but overall this is not my favorite Emelisse.

33cl, new exclusive Dutch brew Anno 2012, from De Bierkoning Amsterdam, complex smoked brew, smoked/fruity and slightly roasted/woody, not too heavy, balanced, hazy, good head, very good brew, yet expensive!