Sainte Hélène Jean Chris Numero 2

Brewed by Brasserie Sainte Hélène
Style: Foreign Stout
Virton, Belgium

Serve in English pint, Snifter, Tulip

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Sorry for the german rating, but this is a lousy rating from my "newbie" time (2007-2009), and it’s not worth of being translated. I just added it for the statistics, and to complete my backlog!
Beim Öffnen schäumt die Flasche über, und sie hört eine halbe Ewigkeit nicht auf zu schäumen. Wenn sich alles gelegt hat, landet im Glas ein sehr dunkelbraunes, fast schwarzes Bier mit hoher, mittel-feinporiger, standhafter Cremekrone. Der Geruch ähnelt dem eines guten Stouts. Röstmalzig, dezent rauchig, sehr schokoladig und karamellig. Das Bier startet sehr rezent, röstmalzig, sehr würzig, leicht schokoladig und kaffeeröstig bitter, mit starken Karamellnuancen. Ein wahres Aromenfeuerwerk. Zur Mitte wird das Bier immer belgischer, der Hopfen kommt besser durch, vor allem der Challenger ist erkennbar. Die 9% Alkohol sind zu keinem Zeitpunkt spürbar. Im Verlauf wird das Bier deutlich bitterer, da der Hopfen immer mehr die Macht übernimmt. Trotzdem bleiben die herrlichen Schokoladenaromen stets dominant. Ein geiles Bier, welches durchaus mit namhaften Größen mithalten kann!

Tap at Delirium Tap House. Dark brown with tan head. Nose of malts and some coffee. Taste is quite nice, licorice, malts, molassess, coffee. Hammy as well and quite yummy. Some chocolate notes.

From tap at Delirium Tap House. Pitch black with almost no head. Srong chocolate aroma and full chocolate and coffee taste. Warm alcohol finish.

25 cl. draft @ Delirium Tap House: dark brown with a tanned head & nice lacing – smells sweet with syrup, chocolate, dark fruits & hops, tastes very syrupy with chocolate sauce mixed with dark fruits upfront (lots & lots of plums as well as some prunes & touch of dark grapes), aftertaste is strong almost like cognac-like but only slightly alcoholic but also sweet with chocolate, spices, slight ash, sweet/bitter syrup aftertaste – B: slick, oily, syrupy – great Belgian stout worth getting if you can

750ml bottle (Alvinne webshop)
6 On opening a fruity estery aroma, but also some acetone. In the glass it’s a bit of a stodgy chocolatey mashiness. Some soy.
4+ Slightly cloudy dark brown. Large dark bready head, fairly persistent. Some bits in suspension are the only downside.
7 Rich burnt taste, quite a lot of liquorice, bitter and barky. Salty almost. Bitterness is quite tangy. Slightly sweet, but well attenuated.
4 Smooth and full palate, pleasant soft carbonation. Finish is very bitter and liquoricey, saccharine as well. Something almost buttery too.
13 Very solid beer. Not so much a typical stout at all. Bitterness and liquorice perhaps a bit over-the top. Covers 9% very well. Glad I had Minna and Janne to share this with, 750ml of too much for two people.

Pours a deep dark brown color. Aromas of chocolate, espresso, and a scattering of hops. Flavor is bold bitter roast malts with a smooth chocolate like finish.

Taste from bottle 75 cl. @ WBF Tasting 06.08.2011. Hazy almost black color, with beige head. Aroma good roasted malts, licorice. Medium to full body. Taste sweet, roasted malts, liquorice, bitterness. Nice stout.

Good, reasonably stable, thick-set, dirty cream-coloured head over virtually black beer, if with a reddish sheen. Heavy, aromatic nose with old wood, dark chocolate and an alcoholpunch with deliberate spirit (Bourbon, whisky)character. Superbly "praliné", but with full chocolate. Ashy, dry, roasted malt/stoutflavour with just a hint of alcoholsweetness retronasal. Bit of sweat, paprika, and of course, chocolate, ultra-dry but for the alcohol. Warming up, I seem to get some coriander. Surprisingly thin for its stamina and ABV. Probably very attenuated. This is a dry stout, on the verge of an I.S., and to my tastebuds, barel-aged.

Bottled, thanks baggio! Cloudy near black, rich beige head. Aroma of salted winegums, viokla and licorice. Mid sweet with soft mouthfeel and full body. Flavours of licrorice, marzipan and tobacco. Lots of dusty resiny bitterness. Typical Belgian stout.

Bottle from Dranken Geers, Oostakker, Nr Gent, Belgie April 2011 consumed outside Frank (camper) at Camping Igueldo, Igueldo Nr San Sebastian, Basque Country, Northern Spain 04.07.11 Pours murky brown with tan head that is liberally dotted with specks of yeast. Malty on the nose but also quite beefy bit like an oxo cube has been crumbled into this. Full flavoured beer with elements of chocolate, some tobacco, loads of yeast and some fruit. Really likeable beer, I’m well into this. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 3.7