Enjoyed at Délices & Caprices. What a treat to finally meet Pierre. He is a can’t miss in Brussels. 33cl bottle pours with dark brown body that supports a tan head of foam. The aroma offers up lots of roastiness going on from dark roasted malts and coffee and then there’s some black licorice spiciness and a sliver of toffee too. The taste is smooth with soft malt sweetened coffee and dark roasted malts and then a touch of burnt malts and chocolate malts. Very nice. To midway it picks up some spicy black licorice notes. Very nice softly dark roasted brew.

Bouteille 33cl @ Délices & Caprices. BB 04/2016. Brune foncée, col crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme offre un bouquet malté prenant, pâle, chocolaté et légèrement torréfié. Épice est persistant en rétro nasal et rappelle un peu la réglisse et l’anise. Palais est léger mais tout autant complexe. Base maltée est fort plaisante pour un corps assez léger des 5.5%. Retrouve un petit côté belge au niveau levure mais dont le caractère malté reste plus avenant pour les amateurs en rechercher de qcq chose d’outre-Manche. Amertume est noble, légèrement citronné et fleurie et un fini épicé vient conclure cette dégustation avec encore des pointes de réglisse.

Huge greige head over nearly black brown beer. Chocolate- and other coloured malts, felt or Loden, some ashes. Ashes returning in the mouth, stronger even, seriously torrified malts; seems quite attenuated, dry. Not very well-bodied, then, medium to well-carbonated, slick. Quite good!

Shared at Zythos 2015, black beer, small head, aroma is some coffee, taste is milk, coffee, bit watery

From tap. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty, liqourice and breadish. Bitter, roasted and liqourice. Dry and roasted into a bitter finish.

25/04/2015 sample form tap @ ZBF shared with tderoeck, 77ships, PriorL and kraddel. Dark brown with small tanned head. Nose is coffee, caramel. Taste : coffee, caramel, chocolate, some roasted bitterness.

Sampled @ ZBF 15. Opaque dark brown to black color with a slight dark red glare coming through when held into the light, small light brown head. Smell and taste malts, earthy, lightly roasty, brown malts, a hint of caramel and a soft malt bitter. Average body and carbonation. Pretty useful.

At ZBF 15. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours black, small white head. Smell is weak, bit sweet. Taste is weak, with a sweet, malty, roasted grainy taste. OK .

The darkest Lienne, with a very deep burgundy colour, as good as black, under a thick, frothy, lacing, pale beige head. Aroma very caramelly, in a ’dry’ kind of way, iron but not too disturbing, coffee grounds, raisins, leather, bayleaf and, alas, a faint hint of DMS (cooked cabbage). Dried fruits in the mouth, with only a faint suggestion of raisin sweetness, but not actually becoming sweet anywhere; dryness continues in the middle, with a fairly deep caramelly and nutty maltiness, touch of bitter chocolate, some roasted bitterness but not really coffee-like (unfortunately!), sourish touch and herbal hop bitterishness. Quite enjoyable, doubting a bit between a dry stout and a porter, but like Lienne Brune, it could be better with more body and more ’boldness’ in the roasted department, I think.