Love Comes Love Goes Port

Brewed by Brouwerij Montaigu
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Scherpenheuvel, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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@ZZT VII, fles dankzij dutchdrebus, zwart/bruin olie achtig bier, bruine schuimkraag, ruikt zoet, zoethout, mout, caramel, smaakt muf, mout, caramel

Bottle shared by Dutchdrebus @ ZZT VII. Pitch black color, small beige head. Smell malts, yeast and sweet. Taste malts, sweetish, lightly alcohol. Hmm a bit boring, but I don’t dislike it.

Bottle @ ZZT7. Dark ruby to brown colour with a small beige to light brown head. Smells some iron, dark malts, raisins. Tastes liquorice, dark malts, some chocolate, some fruits. Medium body, soft carbo.

Tasted at ZZT 7 thanks to DutchDrebus . Pours almost black with a small beige head. Aroma of dark fruit, roasted malt, light caramel. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.

18/V/13 - 25cl bottle @ VBPF (Jette) - BB: n/a (2013-485) Thanks to Erwin for sharing today’s beers!

Clear dark purple brown beer, aery beige head, unstable, dissipates immediately, non adhesive. Aroma: caramel, dried fruits, overripe fruits, mocha, brown sugar, overripe banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: mocha, burnt caramel, bitter hops, bit metallic, cocoa powder, some overripe banana. Aftertaste: little bitter, overripe fruits and banana, bitter hops, port notes, red wine, some tannins, bitter chocolate. It’s pretty complex and interesting, but I’m not a big fan of port beers I guess (Broeder Jacob, Domus, ...)

75cl bottle courtesy of and shared with sebletitje. It pours with mahogany colored body and supporting a full mocha colored head of foam. The modest aroma offers up a mix of brown sugar and dark roasted malts to chocolate malts. The taste begins with dark roasted malts and some chocolate mixing with brown sugar and small spikes of vague hop bitterness. Into the finish it picks up a mild sweet prune and muted spicy oak sensation as well as faint toasted toffee notes deep into the after taste. The toasted toffee I’m getting really helps pull this beer together.

75cl bottle shared with Ibrew2or3. Bottle #124/1000. Brune foncée, col beige. Arôme reste très belge dans l’approche, note malté, caramel, léger fruité avec un Porto restant moyen tirant le bouquet vers un léger fruité rouge-vin chaud. Ceci étant, ce bouquet maintient une affiche très européenne entre Vienna et Pils. Palasi présente une belle effervescence, sucre résiduel caramélisé, légère pointe de chocolat prenant des allures de toffee. Iic pas vraiment de barrique vu que le Porto est rajouté à la bière. Le tout reste sec et fruité rouge avec pour moi un profil chocolaté profond. Les houblons arrivent en fin de bouche, ajoutant une fine note d’amertume citronnée et fleuri neutre noble euro. Note de cerise et raisin. Compte tenu des essais parfois infructueux d’autres brasserie (HTD pour ne pas la citer) à des bières en barrique, cette dernière reste agréable. Garde cependant une signature très belge que le côté Porto parvient à rendre intéressant.

75cl, Vintage 2012, Bottle 7/1000, new exclusive brew (brewed at Br. Anders), with port wine, from Willems Grobbendonk, complex brew, sweet/spicy and slightly fruity/roasted, not too heavy, balanced, hazy, rocky head, good brew, yet expensive!

Good medium, rather dense dark beige head, over well-carbonated deep dark brown beer; Bit bready nose, leafy and earthy. Melanoidiens and some alcohol-drenched wood, but I don’t seem to get the portaromas. (Love) gone already? Bitterish - roasted flavour, with a malty backing that makes it taste as the baked edges/crusts of a gingerbread loaf. Some alcohol there, hints at some drink, but blind I’d never guessed portwine. Warming up, leafy flavours, tad of (non-sweet) milk chocolate. Feels very carbonated, spritzy. Alcoholwarming. Slick, but not much more than medium bodied - probably well-attenuated. Interesting tryout (and to be honest, much better than I feared). Might be a point of discussion whether this is beer or rather a beercocktail, but given blind, I’d named it beer outright.

Black coloureed beer with small white head and no carbonation visible. Malty mint aroma. Full sparkling palate. Finish is malty sweet.