Nagy, tartós, barna hab, fekete szín. Édeskés csokis, kávés illat. Csokis, kávés, pörkölt malátás ízvilág, aszalt gyümölcsös aromákkal. Hangyányit édes, könnyű, erősen szénsavas és közepesen keserű. Kellemes, jól összerakott stout.

A colablack beer, a head is huge and light brown. Aroma has roastiness, liquirice, herbs, some dark chocolate. Taste has liquirice, roastiness of coffee, herbs, balanced and medium sweetness. Medium bodied, high but smooth carbonation. Easy and tasteful beer.

Bottle 330ml. @ The Danish (Ulfborg) Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2016, TNO(U)DRBSG16 @ fonefan & Brugmasia House. [ As Dois Corvos Galáxia Milk Stout ].ABV: 6.0%. Clear dark brown color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, milk chocolate, chocolate - milky choclate, funky notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, milk chocolate, dark malt, sweet malt, chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20160820] 7-4-7-3-15

This must be my first Portuguese craft beer - I heard Portugal is spawning craft brews as well recently, likely under the influence of Spain, and I expect the same to happen with this country in coming years as has happened with its only neighbor. The 6% ABV version, as apparently it was 4.9% originally. Thick, dense and creamy, regular, pale yellowish beige head, slowly breaking in the middle; black colour only revealing itself to be burgundy-hued at the edges under bright light. Interesting and appealing aroma of old dusty cocoa powder, toffee, elderberry syrup, warm honey, coffee with a lot of cream, ’haemoglobin’ iron, liquorish candy, candied cherry, Josta berries, sweet chestnuts, cloves, dried banana, sugared tea, hazelnut paste, very ripe blue plum, very faint hints of wet leather, cola, peppermint, carrot. Notably sweet onset - as is to be expected from the style - with hints of fresh fig, cooked sweet turnip, ripe plum and blue grape, balanced with a sourish, berry-like undercurrent, very light dried meat-like umami accent somewhere, spritzy carbonation. Rounded, slick body but coarsened a bit by the carbonation, which is on the high sided for the style and numbs the actual flavor a bit at first; very (chest)nutty maltiness, toffeeish and bittersweet at first, but the bitterness becomes much more pronounced in the finish, with quite a strong black coffee-like roastedness in the end, mingled with a peppery hop accent that prolongs the bitterness. The lactose lays a thin layer of delicate sweetness to the whole but it is the bitterness which dominates the end, where some grape- and plum-like remnants of the initial fruitiness linger as well. A subtle afterglow of warming alcohol is noticeable but fortunately does not otherwise interfere with the taste - which would have been a flaw in a 6% ABV beer anyway. Very nice, flavorful, fruity and pleasantly roasted bitter, but somewhat overcarbonated stout which does seem to fit the traditional (20th century) profile of an English sweet stout, a style which was copied to West- and East-Flanders many decades ago and became all but extinct there when old English beer styles grew unfashionable and were replaced by a new generation of ’streekbieren’ from the seventies onwards. Indeed this Portuguese milk stout reminds me a bit of Van Steenberge’s Wilson or even now-extinct and long forgotten examples like John Martin’s stout from the sixties (of which I had a very old vintage bottle a quarter of a century ago) or Louwaege’s Stout (which died out along with the brewery that created it). This is a stout positioned in the heart of a near-forgotten, specific segment of the style, which the risk of being misunderstood now that luxurious imperial stouts rule the craft beer world, at least in the stout department. I, for one, am old (and Flemish) enough to become a bit nostalgic about this... Very well done for what it intends to be, this beer understands its particular style segment very well.

Bottle @ Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering, fonefan. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, lactose sugar, chocolate, caramel and hops.

Bottle, 6%. Very dark brown with medium beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, little coffee, caramel, bread and a little liquorice. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, liquorice, caramel, medium sweet, hop and medium bitter.

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Almost black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt and chocolate. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and roasted moderate bitter finish. 200816