Struise Black Damnation II - Mocha Bomb

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

Serve in Snifter

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Thanks to GT2 Aroma is tons of coffee and some milk chocolate. Appearance is out of this world, huge toffee head. Great head retention and lacing. Really beautiful dark chocolate color. Taste is rich coffee and not too bitter. Balanced by some toffee and cinnamon. Pretty well balanced, not too sweet and sticky like some imperial stouts.

UPDATED: OCT 18, 2010 Pours black with a small brown head that is quickly gone. Aroma is nicely roasted espresso and just screams to drink the actual beer. The next thing that hits you right in the face is the whiskey. In the flavour you certainly taste the de Molens Hel en Verdoemenis but just turned up another notch. Dark bitter chocolate, some sweetness as well and very very drinkable and balanced. If you like coffee and big beers, this is just your beer. Has to be the nicest coffee beer I’ve ever experienced.

330ml bottle. Pitch black with a real big, almost doughy-looking, dark mocha head that lasts a long time. Perfect appearance. Aroma is a real coffee overdose with chili peppers, dark chocolate and roast. Maybe a little one-dimensional. Aroma is huge coffee, burnt sugar, slight toffee and alcohol sweetness with a hint of dark fruit. Full-bodied and thick, slightly oily mouthfeel. The coffee dominates a little too much, otherwise great.

Chocolate, coffee; barrel flavours subtle, certainly not overpowering. Quite balanced. Beautiful.

An awesome creamy dark beer. Big flavors of mocha, coffee, and nuts. Definitely a cold, end of the night kind of beer.

Black with a moderate brown head. Taste is sweet n bitter, coffee, roasted malts, a bit of fruit, liquorice and some soy. Nice long aftertaste.

UPDATED: FEB 11, 2011 Update 02-12-2011. 330 ml bottle, lot A, BB date reads march 2015, into 180 ml baby Chimay chlaice. Pours well formed deep tan head with good retention atop of opaque, nearly black body. Swirls weave attractive lacings being broken into bands and patches sliding down the sides. Aroma is roasted malt that takes on strong chocolaty notes nicely balanced with coffee. A breeze of bourbon originating from the barrel aging adds to the complexity while alcohol produced by the beer-fermentation itself is nearly imperceptible despite the beer was consumed at the room temperature. The roasted malt flavor with strong chocolaty character melds perfectly with coffee and bourbon and there’s a faint fruity tartness of subdued plumy & raisiny esters. The palate is chocolaty-sweet while finish is relatively dry with slight astringency and lingering mild roastiness, light hoppy bitterness and warming alcohol. A thicker than medium body seems lighter than actually is, probably due to high level of effervescence that supports the body keeping it from overburdening the palate. In short: A nicely mellowed chocolaty-coffeish imperial stout with a tinge of bourbon

This is something. Very dark with a very thin foam. Whisky, coffee beans, coffee liquor, cocoa beans, roasted wood. Bitter and sweet. Dry. Very complex and balanced. Rather easily drinkable for such an alcoholic beer. The after taste is so long. This baby will evolve really well. Another great beer from struise!

Pours pitch black with light brown head. Smell is round and full of coffee. The alcohol is clearly present, a bit more than I expected. I thought it would be more thick than it is, but overall a fantastic beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Looks great, and very interesting aroma with a hint of Spanish pepper. Hints of coffee and chocolate.. very little alcohol taste for this strong beer. Nice.