6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

21/VII/24 - 25cl bottle from … Don’t remember, possibly even the brewery in Dansaert (BXL), shared @ Bouvier’s place, BB: n/a, bottled: 11/I/19 (2024-560)

Clear orange blond beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty peated, smoky, bourbon my ass, this is peated whisky! More smoky notes. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet and sugary, pretty darn peated, quite some alcohol, soft roast, some chocolate. Aftertaste: more peat, sweet, sugary, coffee, some caramel, meh.

8

Super smoky

5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

On tap at BBP - Paris, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out the barrels, which come across fairly smoky and peaty, with traces of vanilla. Flavour is a smoky peat bomb, with some real harshness to it. Seems the base beer wasn't all that great or the barrels don't contribute nicely to it. Harsh but drinkable in small amounts.

6.5

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

24th July 2019
Oh God! It’s another of that abomination style, White Stout! At least this one is barrel aged. Hazy orange amber beer, small cream colour head. Smooth palate, semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Soft malts, a light creamy sweetness. Some bitterish wood. Soft fruity bourbon, ripe citrus peel. Little lemon peel before a light but slightly spicy finish. The absolutely to be expected White Stout clunk is somewhat offset by decent barrelling, but barrelling can only do so much to a fundamentally clunky jump the shark style.

7.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Very cloudy dark orange. Hmm. Lots of vanilla and cookie dough Aroma. Cake. Vanilla. Coconut. Taste. A bit of a let down compare to the aroma but there is a joyous vanilla finish. It’s sweet like a macaroon cookie. A little bit of citrus

7.5

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

Bottle from Brewcraft at home. Translucent deep golden pour with fine fluffy head. Aroma is very unusual - huge sort of Pilsner malt, whiskey, wood, caramel, smoke, almost like bbq. Taste is smoky wood, big earthy bitterness, chewy chocolate-meatiness, but in a good way, as weird as that sounds. “Stoutness” is not immediately apparent, but you can see what they’re going for, and it works. Would try again I think. Not as heavy as you’d think, but maybe that’s just the color tricking me.

8.3

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

25cl bottle from the brewery. F: medium, white, average retention. C: orange gold, hazy. A: malty, woody, vanilla, white chocolate, orange, spicy, smoky touch, cocoa. T: malty, smoky, chocolate, spicy, mellow fruity, woody tannins, bit coconut, leather, very nice balanced, medium to full body, medium carbonation, great one, fully enjoyed.

8.5

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

25cl bouteille de BBP Taproom. BB , hand-bottled on 11/01/2019. Dorée-or, col fin blanc-cassé. Arôme est plaisant, le tout mélangeant des effluves complexes, entre fumé, vanille, boisé, chêne US, cara Munich, chocolaté léger. Fumé revient en retrait, petite touche de boisé et coco accompagnent le tout. Palais offre un excellent caractère de Bourbon, note en retrait de vanille, de noix de coco, une petite note de sucre résiduel et une pointe subtile de fumé accompagnent le tout. En toute fin, je note un apport modéré de malt chocolaté qui rehausse l'effet de noix de coco, et surtout le Bourbon. Parfait, slow sipper, amertume sur la fin axé sur un léger fleuri et pointes d'agrumes. Avec plus d'ouverture, le fumé revient à la charge sans jamais être surfait. Superbement bien faite, avec un plus à BBP pour le format et le prix plus que démocratique de ce produit.

8.8

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

10/02/2019 @home - 25cl bottle from the brewery. Clear orange, nice white head. Nose is malts, leathery. Taste is malts, white chocolate, bit smoke, lots of leather. Sticky sweetness from the regular version is gone; Il liked this very much.