BB 08/03/21, Batch 003;At first glance porter or even dubbel like on the nose;kind of restrained on the nose, light toasted sweetness, cinnamon prevails but doesn't overpover, bread crust, mild dry fruits, hints of forest honey, subtle cherry vibe

6.2

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

Bottle. Brown pour. Aroma of chocolate, licorice, coffee earthy vanilla and subtle coconut. Taste has sweet vanilla, acidic coffee, caramel, some artificial coconut and chocolate. A bit messy and the flavors seem off. More dubbel than stout, as usual with belgians.

8.5

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

07/05/2019 - 33cl bottle @Brewdog Brussels shared with a colleague. Black colour with big tanned head. Nose is mild roasted malts, dark chocolate, coconut, cinnamon. Taste start a bit wattery but later on better, mild roasted, clear cinnamon and dry coconut touch.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Hedonis Excuse Me While I Kiss My Stout (2019) (by Hedonis Ambachtsbier):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5

23/IV/19 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: unreadable print - (2019-586)
Clear dark brown beer, big irregular foamy beige head, pretty stable. Aroma: lots of vanilla, caramel, malty, grains, cow fodder, soft roast, milk chocolate. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, little bitter, caramel, vanilla, bit metallic, cinnamon. Aftertaste: some coconut, bitter, a bit dry, roasted, caramel, more cinnamon, soft acidity, dry bitter finish.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Dranken Geers, Oostakker. Pours hazy black with a lasting, very thin, frothy, tan head. Aroma of coco flakes, milk chocolate, vanilla custard, burnt caramel, brownie dough, liqueur-drenched raisin, fig, ripe plum, mocha, vague iodine (band aid). Taste is medium malty sweet, chocolate & (burnt) caramel in balance, sweet tobacco, restrained coconut & vanilla; light to medium roasted bitter then, mostly coffee roast & fondant, chicory & black tea perhaps, cinnamon almost absent. Dryish, toasty finish, bit herbal hoppy, lingering chicory coffee, chocolate, some coco flakes again. Medium body, slick-oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Too bad about the off-note in the aroma initially; apart from that, well-made, hugely drinkable of course (the 2018 edition was even hard to finish a whole bottle of). Indeed, too little of the promised ingredients (especially cinnamon), but we'll overlook that for now.

7

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

This year’s version of Hedonis’ stout, brewed to a different recipe each year for four years now; this one is a medium strong dry stout with cinnamon and coconut. Bottle at Trollekelder. Pale greyish beige, medium thick, mousy, papery lacing head over a very dark nut brown beer, as good as black but with hazy mahogany brown edges. Aroma of toasted nut shells (and I guess toasted coconut), coffee grounds, raw bitter cinnamon rather than the sweet-perfumey cinnamon I was hoping for, Ersatz chocolate (‘koetjesreep’), dead tree leaves and dry earth, nutmeg, iron pipes, bayleaf, chewing gum, liquorish, tea, dried apple peel. Restrainedly sweetish onset with a thin umami accent, generally dry as promised, with lively carbonation; toasted nutty and bit hard-caramelly maltiness with somewhat metallic edges, something bubblegummy lingering as well. Roasted chicory bitterness in the end, again very little cinnamon and coconut unless in respectively raw and toasted form, however the coconut does appear retronasally in the very ending (even after swallowing), coming in as a nice surprise; in all, this year’s Kiss My Stout has a leafy, bitter ending, with peppery hops accentuating the roasted bitterness. Dry stout indeed, roasty but smooth and going down easily, but I was hoping for much more expressive sweet cinnamon and coconut aromas, as these are very much understated at least in the sample I had.