Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared in London - picked up from online. Pours deep brown with a big, foamy tan head. Quite tasty, with some meaty roast, earth, torched pine, baking cocoa. Medium bodied with lively, massaging carbonation. Ashy bitterness in the finish, more burnt pine, dry chocolate. Nice one.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle split at L6 tasting, thanks to Leighton, 09/10/19. Black with a well presented tan covering. Nose is fruit slice, blackberries, sweet malts, straw, pine dusting. Taste comprises red berries, light charr, pine needle, straw, light scorched roast. Medium bodied, prickly carbonation, semi drying close splashed with dusty hop bitterness. A decent CDA let down by overcarbonation … would be scoring 3.7/8 otherwise.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared at columbus tasting 09/10/2019. Many Thanks! An opaque dark mahogany brown coloured pour with a frothy tan head. Aroma is meaty, tar, singed pine, some ash. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, bitter black malts, liquorice, charred pine needles, meaty. Palate is airy frothy carbonation, resin, . Assertive bitter hop bitterness. Firm bold BIPA.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Malt Attacks, Brussels. Mostly clear, deep chestnut brown. Fine, lacing, lasting, pale tan head. Nose has milky coffee. Blackcurrant. Scorched grapefruit. Dark chocolate malt. Taste is pretty sweet, with a full on, roasty, citrus bitterness. Medium body that drinks easy. Fine carbonation. Oily on the palate. Lingering citrus and chocolate malt bitterness to finish. Nice one.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle picked up from Dranken Geers, Oostakker nr Ghent, Belgium. Consumed sat outside Frank at Campingplätz Felbermühle, nr Neustadt an der Donau Saturday 10th August 2019 after a long cycle ride to Kuchlbauer Brewery and then Ingolstadt and back. Pours black with a large creamy textured off white head, roasty, very hoppy, citrussy, leans towards lemon, dry a little coffee, bloody marvellous.

W xholere sisnowe, na maksa. Pod ta sosnowoscia, szpilkowa nawet bardziej niz zywiczna lekkie nuty kawowo-zbozowe. W uscie dosc pustawo i wodniscie niestety, calkiem solidna, szpilkowa goryczka, dlugie posmaki. Takie ok

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Strong black IPA by two of the most progressive and promising Walloon brewers of the past year, Atrium and Sambre, both still very new and neither of them very 'Belgian' in the traditional sense of the word. Thick, pale greyish-ecru, mousy and fluffy head over a black beer with a thin burgundy edge. Aroma of pink grapefruit, patchouli, cedar oil, burnt toast, fig jam, old dry liquorish, nutmeg, beef stock, toffee, black tea, fried bell peppers. Sweetish onset, cleanly fruity, hinting at dried apple peel, fig and old raisins, medium carbonated with an oily, rounded, full mouthfeel, turning a tad resinous in the end; dry-nutty, hard-caramelly malt body, smooth and a tad toffeeish here and there but dominated by toasty bitterness, blending with a very piney and grapefruity hop character, adding light spiciness and even a citric aspect. This bitterness lingers for a long time but does not manage to halt the smooth toffee-sweetish aspect of the malts completely - which in this case is far from a bad thing. Some elegant, well-positioned, rum-like alcohol warmth colours the tail. Very rounded, full, streamlined and in any case beautiful black IPA, this beer truly brings out the best in both breweries, something collaboration brews rarely do. This style, now all but obsolete in its home country, is still very much alive in American-style-brewing Europe - and I am very grateful for that.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Tap at Foeders, Amsterdam, 10th July 19. Pours black, nice tan head. Aroma is roasted malts. Taste is super roasty and bitter hops, dark chocolate, slight aromatic, cocoa, heavy bitter linger in the finish. Quite a hoppy stout or porter to me

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draught at Moeder Lambic Fontainas 2019-06-27 Brussels AR: roasted malt, dried fruitiness AP: dark brown, creamy brown head F: roasted malt, chocolate, dried fruitiness