Black Ink And Blood
Mikkeller in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark 🇩🇰
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijStout - Imperial Regular
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Score
6.87
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An Imperial Stout with 16,5% ABV made in Belgium. Aroma of dark bitter chocolate, raspberries, caramel and coffee. Palate is sweet with malted chocolate raspberries up front, dry roasted malts, light tart raspberries and a touch of alcohol on the finish. Medium bodied.
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9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle kindly shared by kazator, many thanks Very brown color with huge beige head. Strong aroma of roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate, raspberries, bourbon. Very strong aroma of dark chocolate, raspberries, roasted malt, bourbon. Long roasted malt, alcoholic finish. Very tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2015
at 13:28
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared by Kazator. Very dark colour, brownish head. Aroma is intense but does a poor job in preparing you for the brutal kick of flavour. Lots of roasted notes, moderate alcohol, dark chocolate, raw woodiness. Moderate raspberry and sourness, though high bitterness and moderate to high malty sweetness take the lead. This beer is very rich, complex, very intense, brutal. Unforgiving. Very good, interesting, a bit rough though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2015
at 13:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
KRS 140815. Black colour with a tan head. Aroma is raspberries, coffee, alcohol. Flavour is raspberries, malt, hop, coffee, licorice, chocolate, alcohol. Full body. Not a harmonic beer, but still a nice one in a strange way.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2015
at 04:28
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
750 ml. bottle. Poured into a Mikkeller Teku. Black, deep chocolate mousse head, small, patchy but very creamy. Nose is thick raspberry with very heavy alcohol, almost dash of vodka & nail polish, light burned cacao beans in the back. Taste is raspberry cookie filling leading into harsh vodka alcohol with thick herbal licorice, huge roast, burned charcoal, burned cacao beans, 99 % black chocolate, hugely roasted coffee, harsh lingering alcohol burn. Dries out your mouth body with huge roast, lingering roast & char. The roast is extreme & really lingers but upfront you really do get sweet raspberry candy filling. The “chocolate” profile on this one is insane, reminiscent of 99 % cacao chocolate bars. This doesn’t taste like coffee & chocolate, this tastes like you are trying to chew actual roasted coffee & cacao beans. Ridiculous, crazily harsh. Extreme beer, admirable so, a bit too extreme for me to fully enjoy, I however do respect it. On top of everything it is also super dry for an RIS. I really admire it, I also wish that it was easier to dry but maybe it wasn’t meant to be easily drinkable. Overall this is probably the least drinkable beer I have ever had, impressive honestly in that expect. Very hard to drink, took hours & hours, a first one for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2015
at 14:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. A big, dense, tan head leaves lacings over a black body. The aroma has lots of raspberry, lots of coffee and a nice touch of dark chocolate. Alcohol too, but well hidden. Lots of flavor too, the alcohol much more evident, almost bothering, with lots of raspberry and coffee too. Some chocolate and some dark roasted malts. Full body and a nice carbonation, Raspberry seed bitter, warming and sweetish. Lasting finish. Way too much raspberry seed bitterness going on, sort of crashing with the roasted malts and related flavors. But sure interesting and quite decent. 150814
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2015
at 15:54
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle 750ml @ Geokkjer
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, tart raspberries, chocolate, coffee, alcohol and caramel. Taste is medium sweet and medium to heavy bitter with a long warm, roasted, tart raspberry, caramel, chocolate and bitter finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, tart raspberries, chocolate, coffee, alcohol and caramel. Taste is medium sweet and medium to heavy bitter with a long warm, roasted, tart raspberry, caramel, chocolate and bitter finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2015
at 15:52
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Ashton McCobb’s. Pours black with a thick tan head. Aromas of lowland medicinal herbs, raspberry, fresh liquorice root, Pontefract cakes. Taste is tangy raspberry, bitter, charcoal, ashtray, slightly burnt, gnarly finish.
Last wee tasting of the summer
Last wee tasting of the summer
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2015
at 11:49