L’Enclave la Noiraude Imperial Stout

Brewed by L’Enclave
Style: Imperial Stout
Prévondavaux, Switzerland

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle 330ml. clear glass @ home.

[ Trade by fiulijn ]. Clear dark brown colour with a large, speaking, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, beige to light brownn head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, chocolate, grass, brown sugar. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, sweet licorice, english licorice, ash, thin. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120413]

Bottled, thanks Bov! Near black, small head. Coffee aroma. Sweet with medium-full body and rounded mouthfeel. Thick with cocoa and caramel. Mid and lightly warming with low bitterness. A laid back, mild imperial stout.

Bottle (tasting at Omhper´s) A black colour with a small head. An aroma of roasted malt, caramel, medicine and berries. The taste is medium sweet. A medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation and a medium long duration.

Bottle at Omhper’s - Very dark brown in colour. Leather, dried fruit, liquorice and roasted malt in the aroma. Fruity and rich taste with notes of dried fruit and fruitcake.

from Mise en Bière, Lausanne - dark black beer under a firm creamy dark beige foam; nice lacework; aroma of dark chocolate and sourish black cherries; creamy palate and full-bodied; moderate carbonation, some sweetness and with a decent bitterness; long chocolatey aftertaste with notes of licorice - pretty nice beer !

Bottle from La Mise en Bière, Lausanne
Black color; exaggerated carbonation, huge head. Nice hop aroma, fresh, roasted malts too; cream. The body is lean, surely this one as well is lightly infected, but the evident roasted malts manage to better hide it, and the good hopping too; high carbonation as expected; dark chocolate.
Pleasant, overall, even if flawed.

Bottled (thanks Bov!). Quite much pitch black colour, small brown head. Aroma is liquorice, alcohol, some mild toffee as well as sweet malts. Flavour is quite much the same with alcohol being quite much stronger.