Draft at Spuyten as part of The Big Woody. Pours jet black with no head and some brown lacing. Nose if chocolate, and some honey sweetness. Tastes much of the same chocolate, some espresso, honey, light oak, and some bourbon notes more on finish as well. Alcohol is well hidden but these big beers catch up with me later in the day.

How: Bottle.
Where: Systembolaget.
Appearance: Black colour with a brown head.
Aroma: Sweet, malt, fruit, alcohol, honey.
Body: Full body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Fruit, alcohol, vanilla, bourbon, raisin.

Bottle shared by Phatdog1. Snifter shows a thin tan head and extremely oily coating when swirled around the snifter. It smells really nice. Light bourbon, oak, chocolate and a large amount of sweetness from the honey. The flavor falls a bit short for me. The oily film that can been seen as you swirl the stout around the snifter also leaves a thick coating across your tongue and kind of makes the stout a cloying. The sweetness almost covers the bourbon, vanilla and chocolate flavors that people enjoy in a BBA stout. In no way is this a poor offering, I just think the honey was overdone causing the texture and flavor to be slightly off. I have no clue what more age could do to this and will not find out on my own.

Bouteille 37.5cl de HopDuvel, BB 11/12/2022. De couleur brune foncée tirant sur le noir, une mousse moka légèrement crémeuse donnant un filament huileux doré sur le verre. Arôme est principalement axé sur un malt chocolaté qui est assez dominant accompagné par un côté crystal presque sucré et des pointes de grillé. Le tout offrant des effluves de grains presque poussiéreuses. L’ajout du miel se veut discret et je n’ai, personnellement pas pu le trouver. Ce dernier était peut-être noyé dans la masse de malts. Au niveau BA, je ne note pas vraiment un impact significatif de Bourbon, dommage. Palais est malté chocolaté, grillé et caramel mis en avant. Le tout est ponctué d’une amertume modérée venant du houblonnage qui offre qcq notes fleuri-citronnée très subtil. Le Bourbon est minimaliste avec un profil qui ne rivalise pas avec ses congénères américains. Je retrouve très peu de ce côté vanillé quasi doux de Bourbon, mais note au contraire une bière épaisse réchauffée par les 11% qui fini par cacher pas mal du caractère de cette dernière. Ce profil basique se note d’ailleurs par des pointes de malt pâle et caramel typiquement européen. Ici aussi, le miel annoncé reste timide et je peine à y trouver ce côté organique - cloying. Une bière solide de par sa composition mais horriblement banale et un profil maintes fois revisité. Compte tenu de ce qui est annoncé sur l’étiquette ainsi que du prix de la bière, on était en droit d’attendre qcq chose de plus recherché.

Bottle 37,5 cl. Pours pitch black with a beige head. Sweet roasty nose with evident alcohol. Rich body, hardly any carbonation, sweet roastiness, slightly charred. Quite a boozy whisky feel but I don’t really pick up any Bourbon character. 271213

Bottle shared by Marcus. Pours black with a dark tan head. Pleasant coffee aroma. With a touch of chocolate. Med plus body. Flavor of smooth burnt malt, vanilla, coffee and arguably chocolate. With time it gets bourbon and oak. Smooth and mellow finish.

Bottle, 375ml corked. It’s a pitch black beer, topped by a dense, tan head of moderate size. The aroma has honey, dark chocolate, coffee and some spiced hints. Quite sweet on the palate, with roasted malts, dark chocolate and a spiced hints. Don’t detect any honey, but there’s some bitterness going on. Full body, soft carbonation and with a little warmth. The finish goes on for a long while, it’s sweet and quite warming, with lots of roasted malts. Sure a pleasant one, although lacking a little bit to be world class. 131116

Bottle 375ml @ Geokkjer
Pours pitch black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, wood, vanilla, chocolate, coffee, brown sugar and hint of licorice. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and light to medium bitter with a long roasty, chocolate and vanilla finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat.

Bottle. Pours black with tan head. Nose and taste of honey, roast chocolate malt, chocolate cake, fudge, bread, oak, light bourbon, vanilla and roast coffee. Medium body. Dry roast finish.