Foncé
Stanium in Beveren, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.61
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Kraddel (15872) reviewed Foncé from Stanium 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours daark brown, small white head. Smell is sweet, wort. taste is sweet, chocolate, mild roasty. Sweet, mild wort-like taste. bit young, perhaps ? Sweet finish. Another one by stanium that simply doesnt seem finished…
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Foncé from Stanium 8 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
The dark one in this series of beers from a new micro brewery in Beveren, tasted at the brewery and now from a bottle at home. Violent gusher, about 1/4 went straight down the sink, alas... Irregular, ’papery’ lacing, pale greyish beige head, very stable on the edges as a thick moussy rim, remnants of foam in the middle, over an immediately cloudy chestnut brown beer with burgundy hue. Aroma of moldy walnuts, dried fig, coriander seed, pear, butterscotch candy, earth, damp tree leaves, black tea, dried cranberries, toasted brown bread, acorn shells gathered from a forest floor on a dry autumn day, mushrooms fried with brown sugar, cloves, old aniseed, sage, white pepper. Fruity, mildly estery onset, hinting at pear, fig and dried berries, sweetish with sourish aspects on the sides, quite sharply carbonated, distracting a bit from the actual flavour but manageable for the intended style (dubbel), fairly full mouthfeel. Deeply (hazel-)nutty malt middle, very butterscotch-like as well, toffeeish, sweetish in a cereally (and not so much sugary) way with a softly bittering edge, while some of the fruity esters play along; spicy notes in the finish, from coriander but also from yeasty phenols (clove-like impressions). Mildly bittering, herbal and leafy hop bitter ending, with lingering yeasty-fruity notes and a faint hint of warming, but otherwise well-hidden alcohol. Too bad for that heavy gushing, but otherwise still very palatable and enjoyable, remarkably dry for a Belgian dubbel (which was apparently the intention) and in that sense appetizing. Interesting one.