Martens Tafel Stout

Brewed by Martens
Style: Belgian Ale
Bocholt, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle 25cl. @ home.
Alc. 1.35%. Clear dark red brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, caramel sugar, light brown sugar. Flavor is light heavy sweet with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light metalic and metalic sweet. [20090701]

Bottled. A deep red beer with a thin tan head. The aroma is sweet with notes of over ripe fruits and a bit of roasted malt. The flavor is extremely sweet and very artificial and some caramel. Too artificial.

25 cL bottle, courtesy of KimJohansen. Pours drk brown with a clear and golden amber glare and a fully gone head. Aroma is mild breadish dark malty. Solid sweet malty flavour at first with a distinct metallic note following into the finish.

UPDATED: JUL 2, 2005 (Bottle 25 cl) Belgian table beers use all sorts of references to "real" beer types on their labels. I’ve had both "Trippels" ans "Dubbels" even a "Faro" but I do believe this is my first time withh a table "Stout". Dark brown, clear and filtered, no head, high carbonation. Decent but thankfully not overwhelming sweetness - due to both sugar and artificial sweeteners. Drinkable. 120105

Bottled. Very dark brownish amber colour with mediumsized brown creamy head. Aroma is sweet malts, caramel and some paper. Flavour is very much the same. Watery, but refreshing.

Bottle. Dark ruby brown, small off-white head. Very, very sweet, extremely sticky. Syrupy and metallic. So much sugar it nearly killed me.

Bottle, 1.35%. Bready aroma, quite weak and not very sweet. Clear dark brown colour, small tan head. The flavour is quite sweet, though. OK brown sugar flavour, some bread. The finish is quite dry, a lot like artificial sweetener.

Dark brown with large beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt and caramel notes. Sweet flavour with rye bread, roasted malt, caramel and chocolate notes. Finished sweet.

This is a tafel beer (very low alcoholic beer) and has nothing to do with a stout. It looks more like a Dutch oud bruin, although this beer is even more watery. Very sweet taste, malty and watery. Only drinkable when served very cold.

Bottle: Deep amber coloured, no head to speak of; sweet caramel with a tinge of roasted barley in the aroma; sweet flavour, light bodied; short empty sweet finish with a well hidden fruitiness. MOre a german Malzbier than a Belgian Ale.......