Black Damnation XXV - Black Nuts
De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.46
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from the Sterk Avondverkoop, Amsterdam. Poured a clear dark brown with a bubbly round tan head. The aroma is roasty malt, chocolate, boozy alcohol, woody oaky, The flavour is moderate sweet, liqouirce bitter, boozy whisky, warm alcohol, aromatic hop palate. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle@yesprs - Black pour with beige to tan head. Dark malty with notes of chocolate and caramel, dark malty, medium body, prominent notes of whisky into the finish. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sample from 75 cl bottle. Pitch black with a thin tanned head. Sweet aroma with liquorice, chocolate, chocolate and peated notes. Taste is bitter roasted. Full body with an oliy texture and a soft carbonation. Finishes dry and peated bitter. Extreme.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled. A black beer with huge dark brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, smoke, a whiskey. The flavor is sweet with notes of whiskey, straw, and roasted malt, leading to a dry finsih.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
75 cl bottle. Pours pitch black. Small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty, wooden. Lingering roasted malt, tarish. Peated. Dense roasted and darkmmalty. Dry and herbal. Roasted dry finish.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
The Ardbeg barrel aged variant in this second generation of Black Damnations, bottle from Dranken De Moor. Thick, bit irregular, relatively stable, brownish-tinged beige, frothy, creamy head over a jet black beer with thin mahogany edges. Powerful aroma of burnt toast, iodine-like peat from the Ardbeg, whisky as such, bitter black chocolate, iron, raisin bread, vanilla-ish oak, mocha ice cream and cold black coffee, teriyaki, gravy, dried figs, walnut shells. Sweet onset, raisins and dried figs, with a sourish undercurrent of roasted grains and a well-fitting, soy sauce-like umami edge; medium carbo, a bit stinging at first but calming down later on; very thick, 'heavy', oily mouthfeel, lots of caramel, toasted nuts and black chocolate like the other BDs, coffeeish roasted bitterness and some drying, vanilla-tinged oaky tannins in the end, but more than anything, a heating whisky booziness, actual Ardbeg flavour with some spicy hops behind it. Peaty iodine comes up quite strongly in the end especially when warming up, even varnish-like solventiness. Thick, rich, intense beer like all these new BDs, distinguished by a strong iodine element from the Ardbeg - which you will really need to like in order to be able to appreciate this beer. I do, so I hugely enjoyed this one, as I did the others.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sample @ Nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging. Thanks for sharing! Dark brown/black colour, thin layer of brown foam. Sweet malty along with roasty coffee notes. Light barrel character (peat, light salty). Good, certainly good but not the Black Damnation like it used to be.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can picked up from Asda at Brighton Marina, consumed at Sirius Boardwalk Apartments, Thursday 18th January 2018 in the company of Barry and Lynn Black as yer at with a dark brown head. This is a beast of a beer however hadn't realised it was an Ardberg barrel aged beer, so a little bit of hard work for me. Soft in the mouth, really soft mouthfeel, a touch too boozy. Mostly chocolate a bit of liquorice. If I'm bring honest ain't a fan, it's ok but I have had much better, too much whisky now showing. A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov13 3.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle @ Brew Wild Pizza Bar
Black color with a minimal and quickly dissipating off-white head. Aroma has notes of roasted malts, light coffee, bwooden notes, and some dry fruits. Flavor is roasty, notes of prunes, somu nutty hints, black chocolate and some peat hints. Final with toasted and warm mouthfeel, wood and ripe black fruits. Enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled at Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2017 - day 1. Pitch black pour with a tan head. Notes of peat, chocolate, dark fruit, oak barrel.