Kraken
Pontus Brewing in Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.86
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Flink Gegist, Delft. Aroma is dark malt, dark fruits, prunes, coffee, blackcurrant, chocolate, and some liquorice. Flavour is sweet and moderate bitter. Body is a tad above medium. Not your typical Impie with its heavy dark fruits, then some more familiar flavours kick in with chocolate, coffee and dark malts. Anyway, I found it quite tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:38
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap @ NBFD. Deep dark brown color. Caramel, roast, hint of licorice in the aroma. Malty sweet caramelly flavor, with very well hidden alcohol. Soft spicy notes.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:05
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 2
Overall 4
Bottle at home, on the roof under the bats. Black with thin tan head. Sweet dark malts, licorice, molasses, brown sugar, butterscotch and some dark fruit. Big sweet and bitter. About medium body, and very little (= too little) carbonation. Oof! This is way off... Aromawise it could have been a decently enjoyable stout but I’m currently not enjoying this 33cl pour of flat watery roasty sugar syrup at all... EDIT: Ok, my expectations were based on the description Imperial Stout. It’s not. Once I accept that this is not that bad. But it says so on the label and I’ll stick with my point. It’s a shitty imperial stout, that ended up as an ok stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2018
at 21:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Color: Very dark ruby, thin light brown head. Taste: Dark roasted malt, fruity, notes of red fruit and hints of green apple. Slightly below medium sweetness. Towards and at the finish notes of dark chocolate and some more bitterness. Medium body, below average carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2018
at 13:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl Bottle from De Bierkoning. Black, no head, flat as a pancake. Aroma of liquorice, molasses, roasted malts, some dark fruits. Flavour is sweet, fruity, sticky, molasses and liquorice. Medium bodied. Lacks a bit of depth of flavour imho.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2017
at 11:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Thank you Klaas! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBSG17. Dark brown to black, mocha bubbles. Nose is herbal with brown banana, sugar, BE yeast, herbal, overripe dark fruit. Taste is herbal chocolate, cacao, mocha, BE yeast, brown banana, overripe fruit,… Body is BE dark fruit & herbal. Not too impressive painfully classical Belgian styled brew, RIS description is hugely unfitting here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2017
at 15:56
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Pontus Kraken (by Brouwerij Pontus):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
26/VIII/17 - 33cl bottle @ RBBSG17 - BB: VI/2018 (2017-1315) Thanks to Klaas for sharing the bottle!
Little clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, irregular, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet smell, lots of overripe banana, spicy, nice roast, caramel, some alcohol. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, caramel, sugary, some vanilla, little bitter, banana, quite some alcohol. Aftertaste: coffee, soft roast, sweet, bitter, bit dusty, cocoa powder.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
26/VIII/17 - 33cl bottle @ RBBSG17 - BB: VI/2018 (2017-1315) Thanks to Klaas for sharing the bottle!
Little clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, irregular, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet smell, lots of overripe banana, spicy, nice roast, caramel, some alcohol. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, caramel, sugary, some vanilla, little bitter, banana, quite some alcohol. Aftertaste: coffee, soft roast, sweet, bitter, bit dusty, cocoa powder.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2017
at 18:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33 cl bottle. Pours hazy brown with a dmall tan head. Aroma is toasted malty. Slight caramelish. Breadish. Sweet. Toasted . Caramelish. Sweet and toasted malty. Slight breadish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2017
at 10:44
8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Jul 2017
at 17:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap @ In de Wildeman. Black / beige. Roasted malts, liquorice, zoethout. Very sweet, very low carbonation, low bitterness. So-so.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jul 2017
at 04:58