Billiard BA Springbank
Brouwerij Frontaal in Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Special Out of Production|
Score
7.35
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Koffie, maar dan bier. De Billiard is een Imperial Coffee Oatmeal Stout en zo zwart als de nacht. En deze batch daarna nog eens vier maanden op
Springbank (1996) barrels gelegd. Peaty boy!
Springbank (1996) barrels gelegd. Peaty boy!
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, subtle whiskey, liquorice, chocolate, with some notes of wood. Flavour is above medium sweet with a moderate roasty bitterness in the finish. Body is above medium, no sign of the 10%, perhaps a bit thin for the style. Fairly subtle barrel character here, but the aging has mellowed out the liquorice which I found too upfront in the base beer. I like this one, maybe a bit too subtle for its own good but I vastly prefer this over those iodine-bombs a lot of 'elite' Dutch breweries produce nowadays.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:34
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Black pour. Aroma of sweet licorice, chocolate, whisky, coffee, roasted malt and burned caramel. Taste of smooth whisky, boozy licorice, burned caramel, roasted malt, dark chocolate, fruity vanilla, oak and smoke. Boozy finish with a nice whisky character. I like it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2020
at 23:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. Poured a clear dark brown colour with a short-lived frothy tan head. The aroma is roasty malt, caramel, liqourice, chocolate, dry coffee, light alcohol. The flavour is moderate liqourice bitter, light sweet, with a smooth, rich, roasty, over-ripe red berry fruit, boozy alcohol bitter palate. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2020
at 23:06
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Vollmundiger Beginn von Röstnoten, viel Malz. Kaffee, sehr trocken, Alkohol. Süßlich, viel Schokolade, trocken herb, intensiv. Langer, dunkel malziger Abgang. Gut! 11/9/10/9//20
Tried
on 09 Mar 2020
at 22:27
8/10
Tried
on 12 Oct 2018
at 21:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at Cotteridge Wines birthday; dark opaque brown pour with a big creamy tan head, aroma has roast malts a hint of coconut, taste has smooth bourbon, roast malts, some vanilla.
Tried
on 14 Jul 2018
at 12:20
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ home. Opaque pitch black color, average sized lightly brown colored head. Smell and taste malts, liquor, roasted malts, dark malts, malt bitter, coffee bitter, bitter. Medium to full body and medium carbonation. Solid. Not that much coffee left though, I expected more.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jun 2018
at 13:49
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Bierkonig. Jet black with a tan head. Aroma of fruit coffee malt. Flavour is smoke, toffee and wood, warm fruit sticky finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2018
at 19:48
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours black, nice darker head. Smell is rather intense on the barrel aspects, but the flavor is more balanced. Not exactly my preffered barrel, but it's still very manageable, and certainly not over the top. The base seems to be a very nice impy, nothing more, nothing less. I would have wished for a bit more body here. Late aftertaste is very nice, to me, all aspects really fall in place here. More so than the actual flavor, even.
Tried
on 19 Feb 2018
at 09:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Black with creamy head. Aroma has a little alcohol and is quite woody. Very light smokiness. Nice thick texture. Lingering bitterness.
Tried
on 21 Jan 2018
at 05:25