Struise Black Albert

Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Imperial Stout
Oostvleteren, Belgium

Serve in Snifter

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Best stout I ever had. Very complex beer with creamy, bitter-sweet chocolate taste and a nice overall palette of tastes.

Bottle, 33 cl. I have had this once before and didn’t really appreciate it first time around. This time it starts of as a black gusher with a massive, overwhelming dried fruity, vanilla-scented, almost milky sensation on the nose. Burned malts, chocolate and cakey dough are other components. Slightly vulgar, me thinks. Flavor is sweet, boozy and spicy h- dill?? - with a woody touch and some sugary, fermented dried fruity notes. Sticky mouthfeel. Roasted dark-chocolate-bitter finish. Do I like it on my second try? Not quite sure - I need to go back to this in a few years and give a third chance...

Pours like a nice thick imperial stout. Tastes is big and bitter too but definitely some major sweetness on top of it.

33cl picke up from Deca; 2013 brew. Poured into Struise glas. Aroma is quite dark and roasted, and a bit subtle though; hints of chocolate and liquorice. The taste is amazing, I’m no expert in stouts but I like this beer very much. It’s quite roasted and bitter as you’d expect, but it’s also balance by a nice sweet and fruity side. Perfect balance. Taste lasts long! Nice bitterness at the end without getting ’too much’. It has an ABV of 13% but is actualy quite subtle. It has a full body, medium carbonation which suits perfectly, and a strong finish. An amazing beer, I really like this. I’m going to store my remaning 5 bottles and buy some new ones to drink this year, I’m very curious on how this beer will taste after a year or 2.

i guess i was too drunk to realize what i was tasting or the bottle was a bit off. Or that i just didn’t like this. Tasted like an overly sweet imp stout with out anything special going on.

pours black with a small beige-crema rind, some retention and lacing is minimal. coffee roastiness, booze, burnt caramel, malts, and burnt candi, powdery chocolate, smoke , spices, ashes, fruitiness - plums, raisins. soft carbonation, full body - sticky, oily, some sweetness, very nice lingering resinous-citrusy-coffee finish.

Aroma intenso, redondo, completo, agradable , pero a la vez complejo. Te invita a probar delicadamente la cerveza y paladear un liquido que bien podría ser de Dioses. Las notas que se perciben se pueden dividir principalmente en frutales, destacando las moras y frutas negras. De igual forma sobre salen los aromas a chocolate, café, madera y maltas tostadas. Definitivamente un aroma excelente para una cerveza. Bueno, finalmente se me pasó decir que sus potentes 13 % de alcohol no se perciben tan sencillamente por su excelente equilibrio. Ejemplar!! En cuanto a su apariencia, cerveza prácticamente negra, cremosa y sumamente densa. Carbonatación nula. Corona de espuma abundante al servir, color café, posteriormente la carbonatación y la retención son de nivel medio. En boca suave, elegante, cremosa e intensa. Al paladar podemos mencionar que inicia de forma elegante y suave, inundando la boca de forma elegante con un ligero dulzor. Posteriormente se percibe un ligero sabor complejo, quizá ligeramente acido, pasando posteriormente al torbellino de sabores a maltas tostadas, chocolate, madera, cacao terminando en un excelente pastel de chocolate amargo. El final es intenso y duradero. En resumen una cerveza excepcional, inigualable, genial y casi perfecta. Los aromas son excelsos y muy bien equilibrados. SIn embargo el sabro es grandioso, una stout completisima, con sabores que enaltecen y convierten a esta cerveza en una de las mejores.

Oily black, thin brown head. Complex aroma of Belgian chocolates, caramel, espresso, vanilla, plums, blackcurrant, mocha, and hints of spice. Simultaneously sweet, and slightly savory, both in moderation. A hair short of being properly full-bodied as befitting an imperial stout. Smooth and creamy, a little thinner than I would have liked, but overall a very pleasant finish of spiced chocolate. Alcohol is wonderfully masked.

Bottle. 13.0%. Best before 04.13. Pours almost black, with a khaki head. Strong aroma; sweet with dark fruits, a bit oxidized. Dusty overtone. Roasted and faint vanilla notes in the vicinity of the glass. Flavour is sweetish with a dark fruit note and some oxidation. Dryish finish with more dark fruits and oxidation and a sugary sweetness. Lingering roasted coffee note and a mild alcohol burn. Bit of apple as it warms. Overall okay, but aging could have been better – shouldn’t have so relatively much oxidation already. 17.03.13.

Aroma: caramel, coffee, roasty Pours a really dark black/slightly brownish liquid with a frothy lightbrown head. Complex taste: bitterness with hints of sweetnes Really full body with a thick creamy texture and long finish. I taste chocolate, mocha and coffee. Great complex ber!