Black Albert
(has 13 batches)
De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
8.18
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This big mother of a Russian Imperial Stout is often considered one of our true classics. Despite the 13% ABV, you'll find Black Albert to be dangerously drinkable. With its thick, tar-like body, it's definitely a sipper, but the alcohol is very well-hidden.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Thick, black. Creamy tan head. Aroma has prunes, licorice, coffe. Flavour is similar plus dark fruit with perfectly balanced bitterness and espresso finish. Not as sweet and cloying as you would perhaps expect from the aroma. Alcohol perfectly controlled. Very, very nice.
Tried
on 02 Sep 2014
at 10:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Very dark brown. Small brown head. Aroma of alcohol, nail varnish, juniper and pine. Too heavy aroma to be only inviting. Fine and complex taste. Juniper, pine, roasted barley. Fine mouthfeel, with no carbonation.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2014
at 13:06
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
330 ml bottle, as Struise Black Albert Batch ’0’ - BA No. 14 BRS Brew. ABV is 13%. Pitch black colour, moderate brown head. Exquisite aroma of roasted malts, fine chocolate and coffee, liquorice and hops. Warming mouthfeel. Rich and medium sweet flavour of roasted malts, chocolate, fortified wine and coffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2014
at 14:26
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
An usual black color with a fine big beige head. Rich chocolate aroma with some licorice and coffee. Solid body with a fine balance. Not to sweet. Dangerously well masked alcohol. Really smooth and easy drinkable. My goodness. This beer maybe changes a lot. This sample at this moment was really rich chocolate. Quite one dimensional. But also some licorice and mild coffee.
[Bottle from Kolding Vinhandel in Kolding, Denmark – not easy to understand the BB time. But it is sometime in 2015]
[Bottle from Kolding Vinhandel in Kolding, Denmark – not easy to understand the BB time. But it is sometime in 2015]
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2014
at 02:58
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Already a classic and one of the best-known members of a new generation of Belgian imperial stouts (or ’royal’, as the label says). Very thick and dense, equal, deeply beige head, colour black with practically no transparency. Very powerful perfume of brown sugar, dates, raisins, pear, vanilla, tobacco, smoked meat, whisky, sherry and coffee powder. Taste very deep and thick, candied fruit, sweet in onset, smooth and oily, profoundly malty (chocolate, caramel, hazelnuts), medium to strong carbonation, in the finish a deep, mouth-lining toasted bitterness, very long dry finish with aromatic hops and warming alcohol. Quite demanding, well-balanced and complex brew.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Aug 2014
at 06:09
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
0,33 l botte from kappödav123. Thanks a lot! Purs black and oily in the glass, No head. Heavy dark berriefruits and dark chocolate at the nose. Taste coffie, very fruity. Longlasting. Alcoholic. A lot of cacao. Fruity sweetness. Very complex. Heavy stuff.
Tried
on 01 Aug 2014
at 15:53
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle @ Café Rose Red, Brugge. Pours cloudy nearly black with airy but very stable tan head. Dark aroma of coffee, caramel malt and liquorice. Sweet flavour of coffee, chocolate, and caramel malt, with notes of roast and touches of liquorice. Lingering, sweetish and slightly roasty aftertaste. Warming alcohol presence. Very nice, indeed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2014
at 09:24
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Black colour, no head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, caramel, roasted malts. Flavour of coffee, cacao, malts, quite spicy, soy sauce. Quite light carbonation, silky mouthfeel. Finish chocolate and coffee.
(from 25cL hand bottle @ RBBWG III, Gent 2014. Thanks for sharing, Danko!!)
(from 25cL hand bottle @ RBBWG III, Gent 2014. Thanks for sharing, Danko!!)
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2014
at 15:06