4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle 330ml. @ home.
[ Trade by Dedollewaitor ]. Clear medium to dark black color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, burnt, chocolate, coffee, dark berry, brown sugar, vanilla notes. Flavor is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is creamy to oily, carbonation is soft. [20091102]
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottled. A pitch black beer with a thin tan head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, roasted malt, wood, and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of roasted malt, alcohol, soy sauce, and wood, leading to a dry roasted finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
33 cL bottle, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is dark chocolate and vanilla. Roasted, overripe fruity and a mix of liqourice and dark chocolate. Mild acidic and hard roasted malt finish. Lasting dark chocolate impression. Dry into the far finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of Dedollewaitor. Pours pitch black with a beige head. Aroma of solid hard roasted malts and licorice. Solid body, low in carbonation, hard roasted malts, dark fruits and licorice but also a strange manure touch. Ashy finish, not really bitter or alcoholic in the finish. 010510
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. Quite much black colour, small off-white head. Aroma is nutty, liquorice and bready/caramel malty with some slight notes of nutmeg. Flavour is roasted malts, liquorice and some mild wooden slight sour as well.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
33cl bottle @ Brewery. This is lovely. I got to sample a fresh bottle and a three years old bottle.
The Fresh: Black with a creamy brown head and handsome lacings. Nose is roasted coffee, liquorice, some ashy and dry notes. 4
The Vintage: Port wine, liquorice, coffee, chocolate, vanilla. Extremely smooth, sticky and tasty. Long lasting end . . . Tasty stuff. 4,2.
By miles the best Italian beer Ive had so far!
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Birratrovo, Como; first beer of the year
Black color; medium sized beige and creamy head; suspicious fizzy noise. Very good chocolate aroma, spreading in the room, with cookies, some roasted malt and traces of liquorice. It has a rather oily mouthfeel even if the body is not very strong; the dark caramel and chocolatre flavor is immediately joined by a strong liquorice flavor; some of the roasted malt bitterness grows towards the finish, the end is also very salty.
It gets better after some breathing in the glass.
Indeed interesting, with some degree of complexity; it could be better with a stronger body.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
bottle at Domus Bierra. Unclear dark brown - offwhite head.
Chocolate. Roasted. High malty. Pepper. Berries. Fruity. Alcoholic. Nice.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
bottle at johnys off licence rome ... dark black ... deep sweet rich chocolate malt nose .... sweet dark rich chocolate malts ... some vanilla ... almost hint of raspberry... little toffee
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle, from trade with Dedollewaitor. An unclear one, dark brown in color and completely headless. Soy sauce, beef stock, roasted malts and some coffee and alcohol in a quite heavy aroma. The flavor follows the same patterns, sure on the malty side, with a little warming touch. Full-bodied, and a bit low on carbonation. Lasting finish with soy sauce, beef stock and roasted malts. Although dull looking, certainly a tasteful and pleasant beer. 110916
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