Stella Artois Black
AB InBev Belgium (formerly Artois) in Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.82
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Ingredients: Malted barley, Raw barley, Maize; Saaz; Orange peel; Coriander.
Matured for longer, Stella Artois Black is a golden beer, offering a rounded, full-bodied flavour and a refreshing aftertaste at 4.9% abv. Brewed in and imported from Belgium, the home of Stella Artois, Stella Artois Black will be available in limited distribution and is perfect for those special occasions when consumers want to try something new and different and will complement Stella Artois 5% and Stella Artois 4%, offering a “premium plus” experience, complete with bespoke font, glassware and a reverential pouring ritual.
Matured for longer, Stella Artois Black is a golden beer, offering a rounded, full-bodied flavour and a refreshing aftertaste at 4.9% abv. Brewed in and imported from Belgium, the home of Stella Artois, Stella Artois Black will be available in limited distribution and is perfect for those special occasions when consumers want to try something new and different and will complement Stella Artois 5% and Stella Artois 4%, offering a “premium plus” experience, complete with bespoke font, glassware and a reverential pouring ritual.
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4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Draught at The Crown Rivers, Terminal 5, HeathrowOn October 5, 2012Clear golden color, small white head. Fruity, lime, some sweetened cream taste. Fruity, lime juice, metallic aftertaste. Spritzy mouthfeel, low bitterness. Lime and some compost scent, not nice. Cidery.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2012
at 10:58
2.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
On tap @ Bayswater Arms. Black? Say what? No, this shit ain't black! I'm going back. 20.07.2012
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Sep 2012
at 03:03
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Keg in Winchester, Hants. A attractive bronze colour with a white head - definitely darker and more classy looking that standard Stella - although the gold-rimmed chalice glass may accentuate the differences; the aroma and taste seem to have the sour grainy edge that I always associate with Belgium - so this is definitely more true to it’s origins than the usual SA; otherwise, it’s a fairly ordinary grainy lager with a touch of coriander in the finish.
Tried
on 19 Jul 2012
at 13:46
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Half pint taken on the bank of the river Thames in London: Oct 2011. This is a bit drier and has a darker golden hue than the standard Stella: otherwise not a lot of difference. I’m sure the brewery will claim all sorts of differences in the brewing process and ingrediants, but I bet it’s from the same base brew and tweaked a little to make it have the changes already mentioned. You could say (as a previous reviewer almost stated) it is a German Pilsner meets Belgian Lager for the British market. It was cold and refreshing and not unpleasant, makes a change for me to have a lager when in an English pub.
Tried
on 09 Apr 2012
at 12:52
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
From tap at Bree Louise. Pours clear and golden orange with a dense creamy white head. Aroma is cornish and light grassy. Smooth malty, light caramelish and slight bitter flavoured. Toasted malty to caramelish, light bitter and slight grassy finish. Ends dry and bitter, smooth malty.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Dec 2011
at 23:33
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Draft @ The Punch and Judy, Covent Garden WC2. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty grainy aroma. Fruity malty smooth grainy oaky? flavor. Has a fruity malty grainy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Oct 2011
at 02:09
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Keg, 4.9% abv, at The Sir Christopher Hatton (Nicholsons pub), thanks to oh6gdx for sharing. Not black at all, has got a transparent blond coloured body. Filmy head. Sweet fruity aroma. Sweet malt and grass in flavour. Woody dry ending. Very sweet, still possible to quaff (London, 01.08.2011).
Tried
on 23 Aug 2011
at 11:48
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Draught@Sir Christopher Hatton, London. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is strawberries, some earth, mildgrassy notes and quite wooden and malty notes as well. Flavour is nicely wooden, malty and slightly grassy. Tastes like a lager aged for quite a while.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2011
at 03:01
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draught @ St George’s Tavern, 14 Belgrave Road, London, Greater London, England SW1V 1QD.[ Me to bartender: Sorry sir ! Are you sure this is right, i did order the Black Stella and not the ordinary Stella. Bartender: Yes sir and did give you the Black .. Me: Okay i just did think because of the name the is was black. Bartenter: you are not he first ;O) ... ]. Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is light moderate malty, toasted, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light bitter with a average duration, sweet malt. Body is medium to light, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101230]
Tried
on 24 Jul 2011
at 02:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
31st December 2010
Was expecting a dark lager! Ha! It’s a lager - clear gold, good white head. Smooth palate. Actually this is alright. Creamy malt, a tiny whsiper of hop. Mostly this has a sumptuos feel going for it and it slips doen very easily. Found it difficult to dislike!
Was expecting a dark lager! Ha! It’s a lager - clear gold, good white head. Smooth palate. Actually this is alright. Creamy malt, a tiny whsiper of hop. Mostly this has a sumptuos feel going for it and it slips doen very easily. Found it difficult to dislike!
Tried
on 31 Dec 2010
at 14:30