Inès
Brouwerij Smisje in Mater, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.31
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Inès from Brouwerij Smisje 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Imperial coffee porter by ‘t Smisje (the follow-up to De Regenboog after its move from Bruges to Oudenaarde and having become increasingly silent since then), tasted at Brugs Beertje as a 2017 vintage bottle (so seven years of age), thanks to Craftmember for sharing. Medium sized, moussey, pale greyish-off-white head, very dark chocolate brown robe (blackish) with mahogany edges. Aroma of coffee grounds a mile out, dark bitter chocolate, soy sauce, toasted walnuts, lots of black coffee, dried prunes, raisins, old ‘dropjes’, hints of blue cheese, chewing tobacco, damp cellar, sepia ink and smoked herring. Sweet and mildly umami onset, dried prune and raisin with light hints of beef stock and soy sauce, softly carbonated with full, oily mouthfeel; very supple toasty and dry-caramelly core, more bitter than sweet, with increasing black coffee roastiness towards the end, paired with tea-ish herbal hoppy accents and a soy sauce-like note of oxidation. The herbal hop bitterness in the end becomes quite prominent, while whisky-ish alcohol warms the back of the mouth and leathery, peppery, evidently strongly coffeeish and chicory-like elements linger. Not only well matured, with only slight signs of oxidation only adding charm and complexity here, but also noticeably well brewed, with a much more clean, focused and Anglo-Saxon profile than many other pioneering beers from the same brewer in his earlier Regenboog period. Better than expected – delicious even.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Inès from Brouwerij Smisje 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Smisje Inès (by Brouwerij Smisje):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
26/VIII/18 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home - BB: VIII/2022, bottled: 15/VIII/17 (2018-1184) Thanks to Bierridder_S for the trade!
Clear red brown beer, small creamy dense beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweetish, lots of caramel, some coffee, soft roast, bit of vanilla. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: roasted, lots of coffee, bit sourish, some caramel. Aftertaste: bitter, lots of coffee, bit of banana, soft roast, some chocolate, bit sourish.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Inès from Brouwerij Smisje 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
28 July 2018. At 't Brugs Beertje. Cheers to Anke!
Pours hazy dark brown with a lasting, small, frothy, off-white head; little lacing. 'Raw' aroma of chicory, raw vegetable, earth, beet, coffee bean, candi sugar, licorice, raisin, candied orange, bloody iron. It tastes medium malty sweet, notes of caramel & earth, and light spicy bitter, hints of coffee & licorice, a bit medicinal. Dryish, herbal & earthy hoppy finish, lingering coffee, malt, spicy licorice, and a dash of warming liqueur alcohol. Medium body, syrupy texture, fizzy carbonation. If ever this was a Stout, it should be 'Imperial', but I'd view it as a coffee-infused Quad with earthy notes. At that, actually not so bad.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Inès from Brouwerij Smisje 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
08/07/2018 @home - 33cl bottle from Delhaize Nederename. Black colour with nice yellowish tanned head. Nose is dark malts, coffee, bit chocolate. Taste is dark malts, clear mild coffee, dark chocolate, bit cararmel, sweet touch. Nice.