3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Dark brown body with tan head. Flavour is roasted malt, coffee and chocolate.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours black with a large mocha rootbeer-float-type head which fades slowly leaving rainy streaks on the glass. Aroma is light Belgian yeast, cereal grain, and light cocoa. Taste is much the same - some Belgian yeastiness, cereal grain type malts, and some light cocoa powder. Drinkable and relatively smooth.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
625ml $3.99 bottle. Nice! Pours with a large tan head over a black body. Aroma of chocolate, vanilla, lightly estery, dark fruits and chalky cocoa powder. Taste is chocolate, dry, some leather, coffee, dark roast. Decently bitter. Somewhat abrupt finish.
Quite creamy to lively carbonation.
2.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark brown pour with small tan head. Roasted malts with coffee and dark, bittersweet chocolate. Taste of rich malts and more chocolate. Very drinkable.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Bier-Spezialitäten-Laden, shared in Zagreb with heavy
Poured a pitch black body with a brown head. Plums, raisins and maybe a little alcohol in the nose. Lovely dark chocolatey notes rise up from a light coffeeish background. Very light, slightly acidic hopiness. Quite nice, this. A lovely, balanced stout, well worth the reputation.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Draft at redlight redlight. Whatever else I might say about this beer, which I have at this point not yet tasted, it has one of the best if not over-the-top tap handles I have ever seen. Pours black and opaque with a generous tan head. Good though somewhat subtle nose. Lots of roasted malts, hints of coffee, and possibly hazelnut or French vanilla. Sweet though dry. Hints of condensed milk with a strong roasted bitterness in the finish. Fairly creamy but not too much for a foreign stout. Good beer.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
very tasty beer. Arouma of molasses, licorise and brown sugar. The 8% abv gives is a slight liqueur kind of flavor but without overpowering. Prune, brandy-like thick molasses, chocolatey and smooth.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
This canned beer pours a pure black color w/ a huge, rocky head of large bubbles which leaves a bunch of spotty lace as it dissipates. Nose is roasty and mild, slightly fruity w/ raisins and fig. Slightly tart and tangy and bit sweet. Again, a bunch of dried fruit and some coffee-like roasted character. Slightly sticky from the sweetness but the medium carbonation and slight alcohol burn are enough to stop it from feeling terribly heavy. I think this is better than the bottled version which I always found, no matter where I bought it, to be a bit cardboardy and old tasting.
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