7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

From tap at Borefts ’15. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, chilli peppers, lots of coffee. Flavour is moderate to medium sweet with a moderately bitter finish. Chilli starts out subtle but builds as the beer warms up. Lots of coffee in this one. Very good.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Tap at Borefts 2015: Black colored brew with an dry bitter taste, the pepper starts heavy at the start and will be fainter later in the glas. Hints of chocolate too.

7.8

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

Bottled (Vinmonopolet Kirkenes). Black colour with a mediumsized beigeish brown head. Aroma is coffee, mild toffee, ashes and some alcohol as well. Flavour is strong burning chili coffee with some slight alcohol, toffee, ashes, chocolate and some mild biscuity notes.

6.6

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

Bottle from Dranken Vandewoude and drunk at home. Black beer lasting tan head. Chocolate sponge cake aroma. Some chilli on the finish. Some heat. it's a decent chocolate sponge stout with some heat on end.

8

Mørk brun nesten sort med beige skum. Aroma sjokolade karamell røsted malt kaffe. Smak røsted malt kirsebær sjokolade karamell. Saftig god stout med fin fylde og god smaksbalanse. Flaske på Nano

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

33cl (7,2%, version 2019) bottle from the brewery in Brussels. F: big, tanned, almost good retention. C: dark, opaque. A: roasted tones, a lot of dark chocolate, nutty, cocoa, coffee, bit smoky, spicy, complex. T: medium to full malty base, very dry on the palate, dark chocolate, cocoa, bit nutty, chili, dark caramel, roasted tones, bit umami, smoky touch, low carbonation, very nice balanced with heat spicy effect, fully enjoyed.

7.5

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

Strong(ish) stout following the well-tried Aztec theme, with added cocoa and chipotle peppers, a theme heralded by Cigar City's famous Hunahpu's and imitated by many others; this one is a collaboration of Brussels Beer Project and Austmann and has been in existence for a while apparently. Medium thick, greyish ecru-beige, regular, mousy head slowly showing gaps and eventually settling as a thin ring, over a black beer with very thin hazy chestnut-ochre brown edges. Aroma of (lots of) 'fondant' chocolate (as in dusty old black chocolate bars), strong espresso and coffee grounds, dried chili peppers including that typical chipotle smokiness, nutmeg, dried lime peel and even a faint background dash of dried lemongrass (the Ekuanot, no doubt), old walnuts, bayleaf, fainter notes of old liquorish candy, dried thyme, Cuban cigars, charcoal or bonfire even, hard caramel, vague treacle, haemoglobin-like iron, dust and black peppercorns. Very restrained in sweetness, some old raisins, clear dry beef stock cube-like umami accent, medium carbonation with minerally effects, smooth and full, oily body; dry nutty and bitter black-chocolatey maltiness, lots of roasted grains coming through with clear coffeeish roasted bitterness filling the back of the mouth, light nutmeg, lemongrass and thyme accents (the retronasal Ekuanot effect) before the chili heat sets in - cleverly placed at the back, bringing a smoky, spicy, somewhat burning heat to the finish, mingling with lingering bitter cocoa and spicy hop bitterness. Ends dusty, very dry, very nutty and toasty with the chili heat slowly softening while the alcohol sneakily increases in 'heat'. Nice follow-up of different flavours, lots of things happening here one after another, also quite full-bodied with the chili factor describing a kind of Gauss-curve near the finish, showing up subtly, increasing to full-fledged heat and then retreating again to let the other flavours speak. Cleverly done, though a comparison with the abovementioned legendary Hunahpu's would clearly be unfair; whatever the case, this theme of incorporating chili heat and cocoa bitterness in a strong stout still works well for me and this is certainly a very decent, well-balanced and solid example. Could do with an even thicker, more oily and somewhat sweeter malt body, perhaps, but otherwise well-done, though it does show once again something I have argued multiple times before, namely that BBP seems to perform at its best when other breweries join in...

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Tap @ Borefts 2015. Black. Aroma has malt, roast, cacao and pepper. Malaty sweet roasty flavor with cacao and subtle red pepper. Quite decent.

8

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