Sainte Hélène Black Mamba

Brewed by Brasserie Sainte Hélène
Style: Stout
Virton, Belgium

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle. Pours dark brown with lasting average tan head - delish! Aroma is roasted malt, cocoa, light licorice, slightly stale coffee, citrus, elder flower. Taste is light sweet, medium bitter, light sour note. Body is light, texture is watery, carbonation is average. Finishes very dry. Watery cold coffee with dry licorice and a citric note somehow doesn’t go awfully well.

Bottle at yespr. Black coloured with a small off-white head. Sweet and roasted aroma of hops and dark chocolate. Roasted and hoppy flavour of hops and dark chocolate with notes of cocoa powder. Roasted and hoppy finish.

Bottle at ChrisO Snow Tasting. It pours very dark brown with a small light tan head. The nose is roasted malt, caramel, light coffee, vanilla, rye bread and earth. The taste is soft dark fruit, roasted malt, toast, faint tartness and lemon with a dry finish. Thin-medium body and light carbonation. Ok, but a bit light in body.

75 cl bottle. Pours hazy brown with a small off white head. Aroma is fruity and roasted malty. Dark roasted malty, citrusy and fruity. Light bitter, citrusy and hard roasted malty. Bitter and dark roasted malty finish.

Bottled. Dark almost black coloured. Dense beige head. Aroma: Roast, sweetness, herbs, light cocoa, light roast. Flavour: Light roasted, light chocolaty, light herbal. Some cocoa. Medium bodied. Ends chocolaty and light roasted.

Bottled. A dark red-brown beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of over ripe fruits, berries, malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of chocolate, wood, lemons, hops, straw, and roasted malt, leading to a dry roasted finish. The body is light.

Bottle 75 cl. Pours a cloudy black with an orange hue and a creamy and lacing beige head. Oddly skewed and unclean aroma with a thin citrusy whiff. Thin-bodied, roasty and ashy with some chocolate accents. Ends....bland. Poor. 250113

75cl, at 4.3%Vol, new exclusive brew Anno 2011, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex Stout, malty/roasted and slightly fruity/bitter, easy to drink, balanced, cloudy, good head, good brew

Bottle at Chriso tasting 20/01/2013. Dark brown / ruby colour. Beige head.Easrthy soft roast aroma, english esters. A little farmyard chalky, thin palete. Little green apple finish. Lacks the body of a stout.

Bottle at Chriso Snow Tasting. Verydark brown colour lasting dark beige head. Ok ish thinnish stout