Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Delhaize Dok Noord. Cloudy black, stable, frothy, beige head. Aroma of burnt fudge & marshmallow, fondant, liquorice, cappuccino, black olive, teriyaki, brownie, whisky. Taste has sweet date & fig in a milk-chocolatey, dark fudge-like malt body with a subtle hint of burnt marshmallow, bitter liquorice & coffee and umami teriyaki. Earthy hops in the finish, some phenolic liquorice, bitter fondant & coffee and boozy (cheap) whisky-like alcohol. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. The marshmallow is only adjunct to the core profile of a relatively clean, roasty Stout. Very nice surprise!

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

330 ml bottle. Pours a dark brown with short tannish head. Aromas of sweetened chocolate and slick roasted malts. Flavors of dark sugars, dark chocolate, and roasted malts. Simple. Pleasant.

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

24/VIII/20 - 33cl bottle from the brewer, shared @ holidays (France), BB: 21/IV/21, bottled: 21/IV/18 (2020-820)

Clear black beer, small creamy dense beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very roasted, bit sweet, hint of vanilla, some alcohol. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: bit oxidized, good roast, some caramel, pretty bitter, coffee. Aftertaste: alcohol, nice roast, dark chocolate, bit sweet, more alcohol, oxidized, bit syrupy, more chocolate. Nice beer, very pleasantly surprised!

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

17/08/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from Willems en Zoon, Grobbendonk. Dark brown, with yellowish head; Nose is dark malts, bit fruits, praline. Taste is dark malts, bit fruits, sweet, hint of cream, candy,.

Well balanced. Lci Gents bierfestival 2018

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

Black with thin creamy head. Aroma has light vanilla. Carbonation is quite high. Flavour has dark malts. Lots of dried fruits. Sweet finish.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8.5

"Marshmallow stout" - sounds hip - and the first stout 'tout court' by Mareklop, one of their newest. Bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhandel. Medium thick, creamy, lightly lacing, pale yellow beige, dense head, slowly thinning and eventually opening, on a jet black beer with hazy chestnut brown edges. Aroma of 'fondant' chocolate bars soaked in water, salmiak, treacle, dried prunes, fried banana slices, burnt toast and burnt chestnuts, burnt brown sugar, dry earth, pipe tobacco ashes, hints of toffee, bayleaf taken from a boiling beef stew, wet leather, marshmallows but only in the original sense of the word and toasted black, shoe polish, brown rum, black radish, haemoglobin iron. Sweet onset with thin sourish undertone and early roasted bitter accents, dried prunes and banana slices, burnt brown sugar effect, spritzy carbonation but finely tingling and not impairing a full, heavy, oily mouthfeel, however feeling strangely lighter than 10.5% ABV. Caramelly and bitter-black chocolatey, severely toasted malt bittersweetness, lots of outspoken black coffee-like roasted bitterness in the finish, the bitterness of which is accentuated not only by a good dose of spicy, rooty, earthy and bit tonic water-ish hops but also by a strong, bit burning glow of rum-like alcohol, perhaps just a tad too boozy for my liking. The decadently sweet and creamy marshmallow effect I was expecting based on the premise, stays away, while the 'Belgian-ness' is apparent in the form of a bready, bit phenolic yeast effect at the back. Not the thick, overly sweet and creamy, luscious, 'fat' Scandinavian style pastry stout I was allowed to expect based on the name, but another Belgian attempt at imperial stout - yet within that context, one of the better ones I had so far, truth be said. Less condense, thick, complex and intense than the best of Belgian imperial stouts (Struise's Black Albert and its offspring, for example), but clearly above average, compared with the often overly yeasty, phenolic, estery, harshly or insufficiently roasty, 'raw' and dirty beers many other Belgian breweries come up with when venturing into this style. Probably the best Mareklop so far.