Struise Black Damnation III - Black Mes

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

Serve in Snifter

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UPDATED: APR 14, 2010 Draught @ pre-ZBF Festival 2010, Kasteel der Lakebosschen, Lakebosschendreef 4, Ruddervoorde, Belgium.
Clear dark black color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, caramel, tobacco, light berry sweet, smoke - peat. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20100304]

Bottled. A pitch black beer iwth a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of tar, roasted malt, peated smoke, bread, and dark chocolate. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, alcohol, dark chocolate, bread, iodine, and peated smoke, leading to a dry smoked finish.

From tap. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. Aroma is clean coffee and dark roasted malt. Flavour starts out coffeeish with a light sweetness and roasted malt flavour. Dry and bitter with a roasted dark toffeeish note. Smooth.

On tap. Pours an opaque black with a small light brown head. The aroma is oozing with booze but also something reminding me of solvents or chemicals, not overly bad but certainly not pleasant either. Very full-bodied, plenty of roasted malt, again somewhat chemical - perhaps it’s just the heavy alcohol that shines through. Perhaps some age will mellow the sharp edges in this beer. 141110

Bottled (from Struise Beershop). Pitch black colour with mediumsized reddish brown fluffy head, that disappears quite quickly. Aroma is nicely roasted malts, some alcoholic sweetness as well as mild peated and smoked notes. Quite stinging whiskylike sweetness. Flavour is roasted malts, quite peated and smoked as well with some wooden notes. Some liquorice, alcohol, toffee and dark fruits and berries have also found their way into this beautifully balanced beer. A very mellow and balanced Imperial Stout combined with some Caol Ila notes, but in a rather mellow way. As for whiskies I think Caol Ila is a borderline case for me, the 3-4 ones I’ve had have been way too aggressive and brutal for my likes.

Bottled, thanks baggio! Very black, dark brown head. Aroma of vodka and resin. Sweet and hugely full bodied with dense mouthfeel. Like dinking tar. Smokey and asphalt and petro - this is Jesus Built My Hotrod in a bottle. Inky bitter finish. I feel I just got hit by a train...

Draught at PreZBF 2010. Black coloured with a small beige head. Roasted aroma of caramel, alcohol, liquorice and chocolate. Roasted flavour of caramel, alcohol, chocolate and liqurice with notes of smoke, dried fruits and hops. Roasted finish.

Bottle @Chris O. Pours a black color with a tan head. Has a roasted malty whisky chocolate and licorice aroma. Roasted malty chocolate licorice and smoky whisky flavor. Has a roasted maltty shisky chocolate finish.

Bottle @ Bir und Fud Beerstore, Rome. Pours black with a small creamy beige head and lacings. Hard roasted malts, coffee and soy. Oily and stikcy. A bit of alcohol warmth.

Bottle from Ølbutikken, Copenhagen, bb 2015-03
Black color, with giant creamy brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, cream, cardboard, yeast, light phenol; amazingly, later it develops fruity notes of strawberries. Full bodied, with a round mouthfeel; good flavor of roasted malt and dark chocolate, although the roastiness seems just a tad too high, but at least there is some moderate sweetness to balance it; some dry liquorice, coffee, low sourness from the roasted malts; strong bitterness; more roastiness in the final. Powerful but not fully cohesive.