Vanilla Black Velvet
Cervesa Guineu in Valls de Torroella, Catalonia, Spain 🇪🇸
Collab with: La Quince BreweryStout - Imperial Regular
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Score
7.46
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Strong body and powerful flavour ale but that offers a ‘velvet sip’. The vanilla flavour, from Madagascar beans, stands out above roasted, cocoa and coffee notes. Plato 22.4°.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pitch black, tan head. Aroma of vanilla, cacao, chocolate, coffee, roasted malts, liquorice. Sweet malty flavour, molasses, brown sugar, quite bitter. Finish bitter roasted malts, hops (sorachi ace?), vanilla, liquorice. Nice!
(from 33cL bottle @ home)
(from 33cL bottle @ home)
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2016
at 16:06
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Courtesy of Mark
The color is very dark brown, near black, almost no head. Some vanilla and dark bread aroma, some milk chocolate. Low carbonation, strong vanilla chocolate flavor, moderate sweetness, luckily a bit more roastiness in the final; hints of tobacco.
Among vanilla beers, one of the best, still not my favorite substyle. Good beer.
The color is very dark brown, near black, almost no head. Some vanilla and dark bread aroma, some milk chocolate. Low carbonation, strong vanilla chocolate flavor, moderate sweetness, luckily a bit more roastiness in the final; hints of tobacco.
Among vanilla beers, one of the best, still not my favorite substyle. Good beer.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2016
at 22:41
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle - Vanilla and molasses. Deep brown with almost no head. Vanilla and sweet woody notes with some molasses. There is an underlying woody bitterness that isn’t pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2016
at 22:41
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330mL bottle, pours a deep dark brown / black with a very small murky brown head. Aroma is very harsh, with bone dry, burnt roasted malt, and bitter dark cocoa powder. Flavour is very bitter and harsh, with burnt malt and bitter dark cocoa powder. Body is fairly thin, and finishes with low-medium residual sweetness. Bizarre stuff; very harsh and bitter, almost with an umami note. Interesting stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2016
at 22:36
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ Fairbar. Pours black with a small brown head. Aroma of sweet malt, caramel, dark chocolate, vanilla, cocoa powder, sweet dark fruit. Flavor is sweet, malty, caramel, vanilla, dark chocolate, cocoa powder, alcohol. Medium body, average carbonation, sweet finish with warming alcohol. 171016
Tried
on 17 Oct 2016
at 10:42
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap @ FairBar, 9.5%. Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, vanilla and liquorice. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, vanilla, warming, liquorice, medium sweet, notes of alcohol, ash, little harsh, hop,
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Oct 2016
at 10:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap @ Fairbar. Black with a small brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, coffee and vanilla. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish with a little warmong alcohol. Oily and soft. 171016
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Oct 2016
at 09:24
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
How: Bottle.
Where: The Bishops Arms, Gamla Stan.
Appearance: Black colour with a small beige head.
Aroma: Dried fruit, chocolate, caramel, nuts.
Body: Full bod, low to medium carbonation.
Flavour: Chocolate, dried fruit, vanilla, alcohol.
Where: The Bishops Arms, Gamla Stan.
Appearance: Black colour with a small beige head.
Aroma: Dried fruit, chocolate, caramel, nuts.
Body: Full bod, low to medium carbonation.
Flavour: Chocolate, dried fruit, vanilla, alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2016
at 08:58
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 330 ml. Almost black with dark brown fine foam. Excellent aroma: sweet shades of vanilla, chocolate and coffee + caramel and brandy. Taste powerful and velvety: bitter black coffee without sugar, but with vanilla, chocolate and cognac, caramel, slightly dried fruit, bitter-sweet (resin-pine hops). Great beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2016
at 14:13
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 33 cl. Vintage 2015. Pours a dark brown with an orange he and a small, beige head. Very intense, sweet vanilla in the nose, overpowering pretty much everything. Rich body, lowish carbonation, sweet roast, sweet vanilla, some licorice and some late malt bitterness. The arima is a bit cloying to me. 030816
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2016
at 06:14