Jerome Negra

Black pour, almond head. Good roast smell to it. Very light malt, good coffee with mocha, slightly metallic. Fairly medium bodied. Good clean, in the classic style.

A dark almost opaque brown ale with a thick bubbly light moka head. In aroma, bitter chocolate with briney olive notes, and nice coffee finale. In mouth, a good torrefied malt with light vinous notes,but the finale is like sucking on pennies, coppery. Tasted in late nov. 2006.

600 ml bottle aptly enough, shared with my Argentine girlfriend who had never heard of it. I would first like to say that this beer blem my impressions of what South American beer normally tastes like away. This stout would stack up against almost 98% of all microbrewed stouts from the USA or classic brews from Europe. This beer pours dark as night with a chocolatey brown head. The aroma is sweet and sugary with just a hint of roasted bitterness. The flavor that follows is the same very bitey like espresso or bitter chocolate, followed up by a candy-like sweetness as it warms in the glass. The alcohol level is perfect, the mouthfeel is full yet a bit oily in texture. The finish is smooth, yet robust. Very, very good.

An enticing Southern hemisphere treat - I don’t much expect a dark beer to come out of South America as I do spicy foods and the lighter beers they pair with. A deep, one inch medium light brown head inflates above the beer, itself practically simmering with carbonation. The rippled, slightly wavy shape of the head reminds me of the dark patterns on a bull frog’s back. These simmering bubbles boil to the top where I catch the aroma of mixed nuts, peat, coffee and even a touch of chocolate. The nut aroma is wildly dominant, and even a bit autocratic. A sip brings me into the realm of severe drought, but I soon catch the enciting breeze of an all out eccentric and well-considered brew. The flavor seems "hollow", dusty, even cobwebby, with a skeleton crew of roasted coffee and light chocolate notes. The palate is flimsy, but still active. Still, the beer is devilishly dry, though not boozy. I’m drawn, but drawn to what? A desert? I feel like there’s an oasis somewhere in this bottle, but every time I lap up the beer I get another mouthful of dry desert air. Trippy, but delicious.

600ml bottle. Pours translucent dark brown with garnet highlights and a tan head. Lots of coffee in the nose. I pretty beer, and it smells great, but I’ll need to re-rate it at some point in the future, because this bottle was infected : A serious gusher. The volcano action kept on even after pouring the first glass. And the taste is off.