2.6

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 1.5

Bottled. A hazy brown beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of lacto, caramel, and straw. The flavor is acidic with notes of lacto and caramel, leading to a tart finish

7

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

Black beer, think brown head. Loads of toasted malt and coffee and a bit of dark chocolate too. Pretty rich and rather decent.

6.9

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

On tap. A black beer with a beige head. Aroma of mild roasted malt, vanilla, coffee. Taste of mild sweet roasted dark malt, chocolate, vanilla.

7

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

Taster at the brewpub. Cloudy, brown to black colored. AROMA- dark fruit, prunes, dates, roasted malts. FLAVOR- neutral, moderately bitter, roasted malts, dark fruit, coffee. Medium bodied. Good.

6.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Keg at the brewery tap. A dark black opaque coloured pour with a lasting dark tan head. Aroma is sweet milky roast lactose, apricot and plum jam, chcco.. Flavour is composed of sweet nutty roast, lactose sugars, soft roast, chalk, little biscuit. Palate is medium sweet, moderate carbonation, oily. Not bad. Little flabby.

6

Pleasant roast, sweetish, coffee, solid, light body

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

On tap in Lisbon. Black colour, brown head. Aroma is intensive roasted malt, coffee. Light bitterness. Creamy texture, smooth. Very good!

5.9

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Portuguese dry stout, bottle from De Caigny, roughly a year old. Violent gusher, I was unable to open it without losing a portion of the beer to the sink - sigh... Typical 'gusher' head forms upon pouring: towering high, rocky, bath foam-like and heavily lacing in thick relief, pale yellowish tan in colour but collapsing fairly quickly, yet remaining very thick and frothy for a long time, even if notably large-bubbled; ink black colour. Aroma of concentrated gravy, beef stock cubes, liquorice candy, damp earth, stewed plum, haemoglobin-like iron, moist cashew nuts, caramel sauce, old (and cold) coffee grounds, hints of bayleaf, fresh fig, freshly ironed warm cloth, peanut butter, manure, soap (the wheat, probably). Sweetish onset with souring edges and a thick portion of gravy-like umami on top; esteriness hinting at dried prunes and dried figs, the sourishness highly accentuated by very sharp, numbing, harsh overcarbonation no doubt related to the gushing, nutty, bit soapy and overly bready malt body with thin caramelly and much thicker toasted bitter edges, a bit rough and astringent really, coffeeish roasted bitter touch, yeasty phenolic effects (cloves, liquorice, bayleaf) adding soft breadiness but also a certain amount of 'dirtiness' which has no place in any good stout. Herbal and peppery hop bitterness as well, quite strongly so, clinging to the root of the tongue and lingering there for quite a long time, enhanced by residue of the coffee roastedness. The craft beer movement is only budding in Portugal since a couple of years max, and it is clear that this beautiful country, with its rich wine and port heritage, still has a lot to learn about brewing beer... This bottle-conditioned 'generic' stout needs a lot less yeastiness and a much more clean profile, gushing is never inviting for any kind of beer and that gravy-like umami factor really has no business here. Almost gives an impression of some rather amateuristic Belgian attempt at dry stout, which is not a good thing in this particular style.

6.5

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

@ BXL Beer Fest. Black colour, medium carbonation. Light fruitiness along with roasted malts and coffee, some lactose. Light tart, ok.